After a long drive up the coast yesterday and checking out Hokitika last night we decide we’re enjoying the sunny West Coast and drive further up north than I had originally mapped out.
Further up the road is Pancake Rocks, in Punakaiki, and Paparoa National Park. We’re enjoying taking our time, windows rolled down, pulling over for snapshots of the glistening Tasman Sea from various cliff spots.
Then we them – the grouping of rocks at Dolomite Pointe where weathering has carved the limestone into layers, so they look like stacks of pancakes. We read this is through a process called stylobedding, and it’s yet another aspect of nature we’ve not seen before.
Our arrival coincides with low tide, so along the short viewing path we don’t see the blowholes this area is also know for during high tide and storms, but we’re ok with that – we’ve been lucky to seen dramatic blowholes on the Big Island of Hawaii and back home on the Oregon and California Coasts.
Our faces in the sun, we enjoy the rock geology and vegetation growing from the cliff and appreciate the last few days we have on our journey.