| The last day of our field trip, we drove north along the coast overlooking the Tasman Sea. |  |
 | You can't tell from the picture, but there were houses out here, between the road and the sea. |
| We stopped and wandered around the beack, and watched the waves crash over the rocks. |  |
 | Just to prove that I was there :) |
| Further up the coast, we stopped at the Punakaiki bluffs |  |
 | Also known as the Pancake bluffs, this is one of the most popular tourist destination. We observed a geology field trip from some other American university lecturing on the weathered, layered formations. |
| Nobody really knows why they formed, though. |  |