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Cloud 9 Lifestyle Park > Pancake Rocks Blowholes > Motueka Town > Decks Reserve Car Park Free Camp Site
Pancake Rocks Blowholes
Cloud 9 Lifestyle Park > Pancake Rocks Blowholes
The Pancake Rocks are most spectacular in the Putai area. They were formed 30 million years ago from minute fragments of dead marine creatures and plants landed on the seabed about 2 km below the surface. Immense water pressure caused the fragments to solidify in hard and soft layers. Gradually seismic action lifted the limestone above the seabed. Mildly acidic rain, wind and seawater sculpted the bizarre shape.
The blowhole.
Blowholes form from a mixture of compressed water and air escaping through the caverns below and being forced upwards, creating a huge wall of spray. They are at their best around high tide .
Motueka Town
Pancake Rocks Blowholes > Motueka Town > Decks Reserve Car Park Free Camp Site
We came here at Kaiteriteri area to choose one of the many operator to book our Abel Tasman National Park Cuise for tomorrow and happened to came across a nice sunset at Motueka Town!
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