It's the school break between terms, so we took a trip down the wild west coast. It is sparsely populated, as everyone says, and sprinkled with wondrous sites like the pancake rocks outside of Punakaiki.






The rocks themselves are due to some sort of limestone formation - I don't know the geology of it, I just spent the time watching the waves come in. Check it out.

























Here's one coming in now:
















This formation is called the blowhole. A big wave rips right up the fissure in the rock and blasts into the air. Awesome.