Pancake Rocks

I went to a place called Pancake Rocks today. It’s a formation of rocks along the coast made of thousands of stacked layers about the thickness of a pancake. Personally, I think the layers are a tiny bit thicker than your standard IHOP pancake, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t as light and fluffy. The rocks have been eroded by the action of the sea into interesting shapes and pinnacles. There are blow holes and surge channels. A very scenic place. I also got to fly the DJI Inspire a bit there. I had to wait for some clouds to clear and dodge a few sea birds, but I got some interesting footage. It was a spooky place to fly because some of my launch sites were just slightly bigger than the Inspire. But it wasn’t too windy, so I managed.


You can see why they call them the “Pancake Rocks”. Here I caught a bit of a rainbow coming off the wave crest. In the distance, that isn’t a long white cloud, that’s the Southern Alps and the big one on the right is Mount Cook where I will be going in a few days.


Big sets of swells were marching in from the Tasman sea and smashing on the rocks.


Some of t he waves crashed up 30 feet in the air.


This is a single frame from video on the DJI Inspire.


This is another frame from the Inspire. It’s a point of view that you can’t see without wings (or rotors).


At the end of the day, it looked like there might be a nice sunset so I walked a short distance from my campsite to shoot it.


I got a big surprise when I turned around from shooting the sunset to find a huge rainbow brightly light by the sunset. There was even a nice reflection on the water.