Backpacking

New Zealand – Pancake rocks & blowholes

The most amazing and spectacular miracle of nature I’ve seen so far in Newzealand are the Blowholes in Punakaiki at night. Unfortunately we couldn’t take any pictures at night, but even pictures could not describe this experience! The blowholes are in a limestone landscape full of secret caves, streams that disappear and reappear via holes in the ground. The sea water surges into caverns below the rocks and squirts out those geyser-like blowholes that are beyond belief! The show is most spectacular at night – and luckily we even had fullmoon! :-) Meanwhile I had lost Chris, who was also heading towards the beach.. Well, I underestimated the distance to the beach and therefore gave up and returned (ca. one hour walking..) back to the car and met up with Chris.