wrecks and pancakes

There is a wreck in Hokitika, who reminds of the dangerous gateway to the riverport. The town is famous for its greenstone carvings.

Passing Shantitown, an old golddigging village to Paparoa Nationalpark. A short walk in the rainforest leads us to the pancakerocks. It was raining cats and dogs, which made it really difficult for us to shoot pictures. Still the Maorigods couldn’t spoil the view for us. The rocks really live up to their name, just the maple sirup was missing.

For know-it-alls: 30 mio. years ago tectonic changes raised up the sea bottom out of water and wind and weather washed out the water soluble lime of the rocks and left clay as broad belts.

::steffi::

Posted in steffi-logue 14 years, 2 months ago at 04:33 AM.

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