Day 93 - a Sunday in Punakaiki

Punakaiki is a small community south of Westport, on the edge of the Paparoa NP.  As well as having a lovely beach (yes, that's the sunset view from the verandah of our rented bach), 

its biggest tourist draw and claim to fame is the Pancake Rocks, 

a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes during high tides 

(sometimes with rainbows). 

There's a walkway past the 'pancake'-layering limestone (created by immense pressure on alternating hard and soft layers of marine creatures and plant sediments)  

and, along the beach are sands and outcrops

Hope you're into the pre-Christmas swing ...

"On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me

Three cows a-cuddling,

Two pavs a-cooking,

And a kiwi in a fern tree"