Sad! This hot natural landscape in New Zealand has disappeared.
Elephant Rock and the Three Sisters Beach are getting worse and worse, and recently there's been a big drop in the self-portrayal rock landscape.
A friend who is going to visit Taranaki recently has noticed that one of the scenic spots here, the arch-shaped coastal boulders, has "gone back to the sea".
The exact collapse date is unclear, and those living nearby estimate that it happened in mid August.
These bald boulders on the beach are located at Tongap Rutu beach. Originally known as the "three sisters Beach", there were 3 huge stones at that time. Now, a lot of New Zealand Travel materials are introduced. It is also called "the three sisters Beach":
In fact, it is interesting that at the turn of the last century, it was the Four Sisters Mountain, but as the sea eroded and washed away, a sister took the lead in leaving them and became the Three Sisters Mountain. After three sisters:
Each rock is about 25 meters high, and the next group of stone forests, called Elephant Rocks, are often photographed on Insgram, New Zealand.
But these two years the beach has been eroded more and more seriously. The year before last, the three sisters suffered another round of erosion.
By the time of 2015, Archway Rock was more fragmentary because of erosion. Elephant rocks were linked to the mainland until 2015, when they collapsed in mid-2015 and became solitary rocks in the sea.
In December 2016, Elephant Rock's nose disappeared, and in March 2017, the vaulted cave also collapsed.
Barry Arbuckle, a resident of a nearby beach cabin, said it was not surprising that the collapse should have occurred in mid-August.
"Everything on the beach is temporary. Every time you pass by, you can always see something changed."
The resident provided a photo of his latest photo.
That's the way it is.
Pat Greenfield, a New Zealand photographer who has been photographing the changing coastline of New Zealand since 2000, said, "As sea levels rise, the landscape along the coastline becomes shorter and shorter."
The female photographer has traveled many coastlines in New Zealand and made documentary photographs to understand the changing coastlines of New Zealand.
"This kind of collapse is very common. Some are caused by earthquakes, some are sea level rising and coastal erosion. "
"The coast of the Taranaki area is eroded (more than the East coast) because it is rainy and faces the South wind, just like being washed away."
