29.12.2013 - Motueka

Today we had our longest drive of around 300km, from Greymouth to Motueka right on the doorstep
of Abel Tasman. On the way we passed again the usual beautiful coastline and mountains. One thing
to point out were the Pancake Rocks. These rocks on the coast look like some pilled up a lot of pancakes
and shaped some nice sculptures with it on the coast. They are falling steep into the ocean and luckily
we had a rainy day so the waves were a bit higher and crushing into the rock formation causing some
really nice whitewater splashes and some nice effects. One was a 15m deep chimney formed inside
the rock that would spit out steam when the waves were hitting hard enough. Really nice there, we
unfortunately just took short stroll there because of the rain and then headed back to the car.

The hotel in Motueka was really nice and it stopped raining for a bit so we could have a little hike
on the beach before having dinner. This was the first place in New Zealand were I really could see
high and low tide, I think unlike everything I’ve seen so far here it was very shallow for a few hundred
meters before getting really deep.