Pancake Rocks

We hit yet another home run with a stop to see and appreciate Punakaiki - Pancake Rocks! Interestingly, the Maori name for this place sounds just like it looks - enormous, petrified stacks of pancakes. Punakaiki actually translates to "the spring where the rocks lie heaped up", but that is descriptive, too. At high tide, you can witness the Blowholes - blasts of water springing up through gaps in the rocks. We arrived on the scene on the downside of blowhole action, but we got the idea.