Punakaiki
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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 popular tourist attraction 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, these form the main attractions, which are nowadays explorable by a number of walkways winding through the rock formations, parts of these wheel-chair 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.
[edit] External links
- Punakaiki Promotions Group Tourism information
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