The Pancakes

Don’t forget to click on the Images to enlarge .. oldie repost

Not far from the beach
NZMCA park at Westport

Yesterday morning, we met Jim, the custodian of the Westport NZMCA park. What a neat guy, the park is fantastic and it’s clear to see that he lives and breathes the park. We are fortunate to have people like him and other volunteers looking after our parks.

Earlier, we’d ridden the bikes into Westport town centre, about a 15 minute ride, Google reckons it 10 minutes 🙂 .. We must be slow buggers!  It took us about 20 🙂

The girls found their Postie Plus and Gary was looking for a barber. We didn’t really do much but it was nice to get some exercise in the sun and check out the town. Once back at the park, we loaded our bikes, got ready to go and we headed in to get diesel, lpg and water from Caltex.

Great outlook from Punakaiki
Great outlook from Punakaiki

We were heading then for the Punakaiki pancake rocks and blowholes. I hadn’t seen these since I was about 10 yrs old so it was nice to see. Doc has done a really good job of the pathways and it’s a fantastic feature of our landscape.

Violence in the water at Punakaiki
Violence in the water at Punakaiki
Classic look of Punakaiki
Classic look of Punakaiki
The view south at Punakaiki
The view south at Punakaiki
Fairy Terns on the rock at Punakaiki
Fairy Terns on the rock at Punakaiki
Madam and Chris on the steps at Punakaiki
Fiona and Chris on the steps at Punakaiki
The Punakaiki rocks
The Punakaiki rocks

After an hour their and lunch in the carpark, we moved on to Greymouth.
We are staying in a Motorhome park behind a service station 5 minutes walk from town. Great spot. We walked around to the Speights Ale house on the Quay for a meal. We’re moving on to Hokitika tomorrow to do the tree tops walk.

4 thoughts on “The Pancakes”

  1. I’m enjoying following your blog. I’m having another 4 weeks in the South island in November so your experiences are helpful. Im new to blogging and am learning.

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