View of the Pancake Rocks

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New Zealand Journey: Pancake Rocks


Pancake Rocks - Enjoy the view and the crushinng waves!

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),[1] these form the main attraction of the area. The base of the limestone was laid down and formed between 25 million and 35 million years ago (Quelle: Wikipedia)

Pancake Rocks and Blowholes Walk

Blowholes
View of a Blowhole. Bild: Makalu

The Pancake Rocks are presently explorable by a number of walkways winding through the rock formations, parts of these wheelchair-accessible and others carved into stairways up and down the rock faces.[1] State Highway 6, the only through road on the West Coast, passes through the town. As well as visiting the rocks, tourists can stop and eat a stack of pancakes at a cafe across the road. (Quelle: Wikipedia)

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