See Punakaiki (Pancake Rocks) p.284

Punakaiki is a unique landform, and one of the most photographed parts of the South Island: it looks like a whole bunch of flat, pancake-shaped rocks stacked where the Tasman Sea swell can hammer them – and it does. Standing at the observation point above the blowholes when the sea is really running is a lesson in the force of nature, and our place in it.

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