Pancake Rocks and Blowhole

We headed down the coast, from Westport towards Greymouth, with a stop at the Fur Seal colony and then moving on to the Pancake rocks and blowhole.  We really didn't know what to expect, but didn't expect much as we'd seen blowholes before.

 New Zealand has some pretty rugged coastline and huge waves!

 Not a great photo here and, unfortunately, not a kiwi...still haven't seen one.  However, we see these birds all the time...many of them squashed on the road as they seem none to bright and, either don't or won't fly!

 Here is where the seal colony live.  We saw them come and go from the water, but it is so rough here it would appear that they should be beaten to death each time!

 Here's a baby waiting for mama.

 They were all over the rocks below.

 They call them fur seals but we'd call them sea lions as they have external ears and stand upright.

We see these flowers, beside the road, everywhere in New Zealand...another thing to google!

 Here's the entrance to the walkway to the Pancake Rocks and Blowholes...boy, were we in for a surprise!

 Unbelievable rock formations, huge waves, and power like we've never seen!

There were these pinnacles; there were arches and chasms as well.

It is hard to get a shot of a blowhole, but you get the picture.  Sometimes the water would spew all the way across this chasm!

This was the walkway from where we shot the photo of the blowhole.

 Some of the interesting flowers on our walk-about.

These are cabbage trees behind a palm tree.