Pancake Rocks
Thu, 2005-12-08 12:04 — Pat from Canvey
We diverted to these rocks off the State Highway 6 at Punakaiki on the West Coast of the South Island following a recommendation in that useful reference book "Lonely Planet New Zealand". Indeed most of the places we stopped at were as a result of these recommendations and made the trip much more enjoyable. The rocks have been formed from layers of Limestone and I think, mudstone which is the softer of the two. Weathering over eons have left the rocks looking like stacks of thin pancakes
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Sea
Copy of the unedited still pictures posted to you this evening. I'm saving the .avi of John and I on the zip line for a Christmas showing to the family. The rocks are too huge to clamber over, about 30-40 feet in some cases. You will be better able to see their scale from some of the other still pictures. The site is huge and there is a well defined path around the area which also includes a surge pool among the rocks on a massive scale.
Sea
The sea is so blue in this pic! I'd like to see the larger version of this picture when I get my copy of your holiday disk.
Are you allowed to clamber over the rocks or are you cordoned off from them to preserve them?