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Location:
Oceania,
New Zealand, Punakaiki
Category:
Beach cam
Description:
View of Punakaiki Beach - the site
of one of the many must see natural
attractions on the West Coast of the
South Island
Location Information:
Punakaiki is a small community on
the West Coast of the South Island
of New Zealand, between Westport and
Greymouth. The community lies on the
edge of the Paparoa National Park.
The Pancake Rocks are a very popular
tourist goal at Dolomite Point south
of the main village. The Pancake
Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone
area where the sea bursts though a
number of 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 these form the main
attraction of the area.
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. State
Highway 6, the only through road on
the West Coast, passes through the
town
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