LAKE TEKAPO, NEW ZEALAND
Wandering Teresa
Welcome to my creative corner! Here, I share my photos, travel stories, random thoughts, and a bit of myself.
Welcome to my creative corner! Here, I share my photos, travel stories, random thoughts, and a bit of myself.
No idea but o have seen these at Bondi Beach and also at home on beaches in Northern Ireland. Pretty to look at.
I was just wondering, maybe it has a history behind them.
They used to be made by explorers to indicate the way. Ancient tribes used them symbolically and modern people pile stuff up because they can
So many different meanings for different countries and different points in time. I also heard that in places like Japan it has a relation to the gods. Thanks Brian for the info.
I was wondering the same thing when I saw the many, many little structures on the beach of Lindisfarne in the north of England. And the explanation I received was: somebody started it and now people make them. In German, they even have name (Steinmandl, i.e. stone mannekin) and you find them in alps and in forests and they don’t mean anything except that somebody has found some pebbles, placed them on top of each other, and the next one added a few more.
I usually see them also but just single or a few ones. But here there were hundreds that is why I got curious.
Quite. https://picturesimperfect2.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/lindisfarne/
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We call them cairns, and the idea is that you add a stone to mark the fact that you were there 🙂
Glad to know. Thanks for the info, I was able to research about it.
I was going to write a comment but saw that Brian had beaten me to it, then others, all saying much the smae thing. I used to get a bit excited by them. The reality is a little more mundane.
Haha true. That is the reason why I posted it and took photos without knowing the underlying meaning or history, if ever there was any.
Meaning? Not a lot, apparently. But between us, we bloggers will ome up with (nearly) all the answers!
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I couldn’t remember the name, but Sarah did. I quite like them, even though they don’t seem to mean much xx
I was afraid to touch them in case there were some hidden voodoo haha
When hiking in the backcountry and/or mountains, spotting cairns can be very helpful to confirm the correct route. 🙂