Pancake Rocks
Paparoa National Park features a remarkable natural spectacle called the Pancake Rocks. Imagine a stack of pancakes made of limestone which formed 35 million years ago from the remains of dead animals. The spaces between the pancakes came from weathering. All around this area were huge stacks of these limestone pancakes at the edge of the Tasman Sea. The sea came swirling into places which had blowholes, shooting water straight into the air, sometimes with a loud bang. The amount of water shooting out of the blowholes is greater when the sea is agitated, which it was the day I visited because of a weather front that had just passed through.
Pancake Rocks
Paparoa National Park features a remarkable natural spectacle called the Pancake Rocks. Imagine a stack of pancakes made of limestone which formed 35 million years ago from the remains of dead animals. The spaces between the pancakes came from weathering. All around this area were huge stacks of these limestone pancakes at the edge of the Tasman Sea. The sea came swirling into places which had blowholes, shooting water straight into the air, sometimes with a loud bang. The amount of water shooting out of the blowholes is greater when the sea is agitated, which it was the day I visited because of a weather front that had just passed through.