The community lies on the edge of the Paparoa National Park.
The
Pancake Rocks are a very popular tourist goal at Dolomite Point south of
the main village. The Pancake Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone area
where the sea bursts though a number of vertical blowholes during high
tides. Together with the 'pancake'-layering of the limestone (created by
immense pressure on alternating hard and soft layers of marine
creatures and plant sediments), these form the main attraction of the
area.
The Pancake Rocks are presently explorable by a number of
walkways winding through the rock formations, parts of these
wheelchair-accessible and others carved into stairways up and down the
rock faces. State Highway 6, the only through road on the West Coast,
passes through the town
