Pancake rocks and magic beach

The northern section of the west coast of the South Island (unglaze those eyes) is remote and rarely visited except for one popular destination: the Pancake Rocks.

The pounding Tasman sea has sculpted these limestone rocks into ‘pancake stacks’.

During high seas there are blow holes and plumes of spray.

A little further along the coastline we discovered a beautiful beach with caves, waterfall, holes and shell art. Enjoy.

We hiked down from here to the beach.

Forrest found a hole.

We burrowed into this cave for a car-shaped view of the beach.

It was cool behind the waterfall!

Someone had taken a lot of time to arrange seashell/rock art.

Forrest was attacked by a mighty kelp serpent.

It was hard to leave this magical place.