Quobba Blowholes

Quobba Blowholes

Wonderful sight – a group of some 30 blowholes. Water jets are beating up to 30 m high and even higher.

Bicheno Blowhole

Bicheno Blowhole

Impressive, picturesque blowhole that creates a slanted fountain. During the storms it can get up to 20 m high and might be even dangerous because it hits unexpectedly and with huge power. Blowhole has formed in granite rocks.

Cape Bridgewater Blowholes

Group of comparatively smaller blowholes at the base of lookout. Blowholes are more interesting at high waves.

Jacks Blowhole

Jack's Blowhole in New Zealand

Spectacular sinkhole – a large opening in the ground that formed after the sea cave collapse. The sinkhole is some 55 m deep and some 200 m from the sea. It is filled with roaring, raving waves.

Suplado – “natural jacuzzi” in Curacao

So-called “natural jacuzzi” that in reality is a dangerous place. Waves push powerful splashes through this large, funnel-shaped blowhole. Nevertheless, during calm weather visitors can rest in the warm water around this funnel.

Little Bay blowholes

Limestone terraces at Little Bay, Barbados

A group of small but expressive blowholes along the Little Bay. Here near the sea have formed “swimming pools” – secluded basins of seawater that at calmer weather are safe to swim. Around these swimming pools in some places are small blowholes.

Blow hole near Bluff, Cayman Brac

There are several blowholes in Cayman Brac. The best known is near the Bluff and it sounds as a violently boiling tea kettle. It is slanted and during the wave action blows out wet air and at the very end – a splash.

Hummanaya

Hummanaya

Large blowhole. Its water spout is up to 25 – 30 m high.

Devil’s Bridge in Antigua

Devil's Bridge in Antigua

Natural bridge at the sea with a stormy basin between the bridge and mainland. The bridge is some 20 m long and up to 4 m wide. There are several smaller blowholes at this natural arch.

Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes

Blowhole in Punakaiki

Unusual seaside cliffs that are formed from numerous thin layers of Oligocene limestone. As a result, there have formed diverse cliff formations that at some places resemble heaps of pancakes. In the jagged cliffs have formed smaller natural arches and several roaring blowholes. These blowholes are especially impressive at high tide and strong south-western winds.