Waipoua Kauri Forest
June 4th 2011 On our final day in the Northland region, we headed to the west to the Waipoua Kauri Forest. The kauri is a pine-bearing tree that goes through remarkable changes in its stages in life. It starts off looking like a normal pine tree. As it matures in its middle age, the trunk widens (I can't relate to this mid-section widening during middle age) and the top thins out. The giants in this for
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