Thanks to Rolf Hicker for a couple of these amazing images.
The Gillespies Beach is a wild stretch of coastline near Fox Glacier on the South Island of NZ and is the ideal place to build a rock memorial. The remaining rays of the sun at sunset glisten off the rock memorial that was hand crafted on Gillespies Beach in NZ.
A rock memorial is built for many different purposes and if you categorize all of them into one group they are actually called cairns. Each cairn is a pile of stones erected by humans and they add a touch of class to the beach of NZ at sunset. These rocks are a symbol of a burial site or a rock memorial, can mark the summit of a mountain, mark a path across barren terrain or glaciers or are sea markers to help mariners locate themselves.Dredge at work, Gillespies Beach
A rock memorial is built for many different purposes and if you categorize all of them into one group they are actually called cairns. Each cairn is a pile of stones erected by humans and they add a touch of class to the beach of NZ at sunset. These rocks are a symbol of a burial site or a rock memorial, can mark the summit of a mountain, mark a path across barren terrain or glaciers or are sea markers to help mariners locate themselves.Dredge at work, Gillespies Beach
SOME HISTORY
A small dredge worked the beach sands for gold on Gillespies Beach, South Westland, in the 1930s and 1940s. Significant levels of radioactivity were found in the dredge-sand concentrates. During the Second World War this seemed to be the best chance of finding uranium in New Zealand, but subsequent testing showed that the uranium content was too low to be of economic value.
A small dredge worked the beach sands for gold on Gillespies Beach, South Westland, in the 1930s and 1940s. Significant levels of radioactivity were found in the dredge-sand concentrates. During the Second World War this seemed to be the best chance of finding uranium in New Zealand, but subsequent testing showed that the uranium content was too low to be of economic value. 
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