The Nelson Boulder Bank is only one of two naturally

made boulder banks found in the world.

The main idea at the moment is long shore drift. The

rocks are believed to have come from Mackays bluff and
pushed along by the tides and long shore drift.

The cut wasn’t made naturally; it was made by human

intervention. People started to make the cut in 1903 and
finished it in 1905. A 61 meter entrance was made which
has been increased to 150 meters wide and is dredged
every 6 months maintaining a depth of 10 meters.

It is constructed of different sized rocks. The rocks

closets to the waves were the biggest, the ones in the
middle were smallest and the ones furthest away from the
waves were medium sized rocks.