Pancake Rocks: the Stacks that Stump the Scientists

One of the best things about being a flâneur — a person dedicated to slow travel — is that you give yourself permission to take the road less travelled, the road that leads to who knows where? The typical route down New Zealand’s South Island follows the east coast along the Number 1 Highway through Christchurch and then on south to Queenstown. Nothing wrong with that…but the west coast of the South Island is truly wild. So wild in fact that no more than 30,000 hardy souls live along the whole stretch of it. One can’t actually drive it all. There are big chunks where the shoreline is so rugged and broken by mountains and cliffs, rivers and fjords, that there’s no point to even trying to put a road through, and so the route that travels the length of the west coast detours well inland in three places. <a href="https://medium.com/globetrotters/pancake-rocks-the-stacks-that-stump-the-scientists-8aa7d0898478">Website</a>