Just after our "Mission Impossible Beach" we went to see this famous place on west coast of New Zealand south island. When we drove up the hill this place was clearly marked and no one can miss it. It is best to see this place in High Tide because then you can see the true power of water, when the blowholes are in action! :)
Here is link where you can check at what time the high tide will be. It was easy to park the car and after short hike on a bush trail we finally saw this miracle.
There is only one more place where it is possible to see something similar but not as impressive as
here. Similar place to New Zealand Pancake Rocks can be found in Colorado, US.
Here is link to the place if someone is interested.
The Pancake Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes during high tides. Together with the "pancake" - layering of the limestone (created by immense pressure on alternating hard and soft layers of marine creatures and plant sediments), these form the main attraction of the area.
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| Birds Sitting on Pancake Rocks |
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| Eva and view to Pancake rocks and Dolomite point |
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| Pancake Rocks New Zealand |
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| Dolomite Point and Pancake Rocks, New Zealand |
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| Pancake Rocks and Birds |
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| Eva and Pancake Rocks (matching) |
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| West Coast, Dolomite Point and Pancake Rock |
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| Pancake stack! :) |
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| View to the sea and rocks... |
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| Dolomite Point Cliffs |
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| Dolomite Point, New Zealand |
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| This is how the blowholes look like, but we where not able to take so good photos... |
!!! Don't Miss Out !!!
Must see place that many people miss out is located just down the hill towards Greimouth. We saw there
White Pancake Rocks!! It is easy to locate them on the right side of the beach.
Perfect place where we parked our car is Punakaiki Resort parking lot.
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| White Pancake Rocks |
We saw some interesting plants and lots of brown birds that are similar to chicken called Vaka.
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| Weka |
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| Nikau Palms |
West coast of New Zealand South Island is a great place where to see sunset. We did spend extra day in this area just because we wanted to explore this area a little more and we where able to see this sunset...
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| Sunset at West Coast of New Zealand |
In our road trip map you can see free camping spot that we marked for everyone. It is a little bit off the main road at the end of Bullock Creek road. It takes some time to go there but at the end there is the creek and nice forest that looks just like the forest from movie Lord Of The Rings! :) Single big trees standing in the middle of the meadow and looks like they will stand up and will start to walk around at any moment! :) You have to see the movie if you want to understand this... :)
+ we think that there where some Kiwis running around during the night but we where not lucky enough to see them.
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| Free Camping at amazing location near Punakaiki |
While we where camping, there was only one german couple who arrived with a small camper van so we had a BBQ and nice chat by the bonfire! :)
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| Bonfire at Punakaiki Free Camping Ground |
See our next day and story about Truman Track adventure HERE!
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