Pancake Rocks Punakaiki

... ! For the most part, the weather outside was terrible, but I took advantage of a 2 hour fine spell to visit the Pancake Rocks and the Punakaiki Cavern. On return, I met Dan (American) and Marshall (South Korean) and we went to the local pub that night for ...

... coast. Before we reached Barry town we stopped at Punakaiki, so that we could marvel at the extremely strange, but unusually beautiful pancake rocks. As I walked around the well laid out path, it was like looking at a film set from a sci-fi movie. The ...

... a tree and make George turn round and go back so we can get a picture and we finally arrive in Punakaiki (I hope I've spelt that right) home of the Pancake Rocks and Blow Holes.   It is still a little early as we need to wait for high tide (7pm) ...

... to see) we managed to time our arrival at the Pancake Rocks at high tide when they are their most impressive. The Pancake Rocks are columns of limestone looking a little like stacks of pancakes, minus any syrup or toppings, which when the tide is ...

... of Greymouth.  From there it was a nice drive up the coast.  We stopped for a bit in Punakaiki to check out the pancake rocks and blowholes.  Unfortunately the conditions were not right for blowholes to occur, so no blowholes for us that ...

Day on the bus....booooo But we did stop at the pancake rocks for lunch, very weird natural rocks along the sea coast

Not an entry but this part of the west coast deserves its own photo album!

... had anything! The rain had really set in but we walked along the path to look at the pancake rocks and blow holes that have made Punakaiki famous. The limestone stacks certainly weren't like anything I'd seen before and the ferocious sea provided an ...

Hello Everyone, Today we started the day by heading up the west coast to Punakaiki to see the Pancake Rocks.  They are sandstone formations that look like layered pancakes.  We then headed south from there towards Franz Joseph Glacier.  ...

... photo!) before heading onwards. With night setting in we stopped at Punokaipo of the evening. This is the site of the famous pancake rocks. We decided to get up for sunrise there and headed of bleary eyed first thing the following morning. Now, I have ...

... but several other guests did. The following morning the weather had improved somewhat so we headed down to Punakaiki's main attraction the Pancake Rocks, so called because the erosion of the weaker mud and clay layers in the rocks leave the limestone ...

... ;15km back towards Hokitika. Stu really wanted to do the Knife Making, so we gave them a call and booked ourselves in for tomorrow. We then had to arrange for us to stay somewhere... so we booked into the Punakaiki Beach Motor Camp for two nights.

stayed at greymouth last night then drove up north. saw the crazy rocks that look like pancakes! and random blow holes. cool. drove to west port and went swimming then drove up to nelson via a place next to abel tasman

April 24th, 2007 - Pancake Rocks and Blowholes

... in the incredible scenery. We broke up the endless day of driving by stopping further down the road at Punakaiki to look at the Pancake Rocks and Blow Holes. The Pancake Rocks are large tall, yet compact, rock structures. They are very strange looking, ...

... metres to take another photo of yet another picturesque sea view!! We eventually arrived at our destination, Punakaiki, home of the famous 'pancake rocks' - although we'd never heard of them before! We stayed that night in a campsite in order to ...

Pancake rocks, Punakaiki

The Pancake Rocks are one of the best things I've seen in New Zealand. They are so strange, still unexplainable by scientists, and presented in a really cool park. It also helps that we caught them on one of the few clear, hot, sunny days on the South ...

Photos - http://rdg.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1292&l=9e508&id=510168221 So onwards to Punakaiki and the famous (not to us beforehand!) Pancake Rocks. Driving down the Westcoast we stopped off for the night in Punakaiki and stayed in a ...

Arthurs Pass Pancake Rocks