You Are Here - Pancake Rocks & Blowholes - Punakaiki, New Zealand
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denben
S 42° 06.925 E 171° 19.774
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Map at the entrance to Pancake Rocks & Blowholes located opposite the Paparoa National Park Visitors Centre at Dolomite Point, Punakaiki, West Coast.
Waymark Code: WMN8WK
Location: South Island, New Zealand
Date Posted: 01/20/2015
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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.
When the weather is stormy and the seas are high, the blowholes show off their name as the water surges up through the rock and out into the air creating a spectacular show. Unfortunately we were there at low tide so we missed the show.