On Thursday Oct 13th, we headed about an hour and a half west to the Waipou Forest to see some living Kauri trees. A couple blog posts ago we explained about ancient kauri wood, so we really wanted to see living kauri. On our way to the forest we stopped at an information center, got a local map, and set out to find some trees. We did stop at a lookout point by the Tasman Sea on our way to the trails to get some photos of the ocean. Once we got to the Kauri walks, we went on several different trails and saw lots of huge trees. The tree with the biggest girth we saw, known as Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the Forest), was 53 feet 10 inches around. The tallest known as Tane Mahuta (Lord of the Forest), was 169 feet tall and 2000 years old. We also saw a group of four huge Kauri trees known as the Four Sisters. They grew really close together at the base, but have completely separate trunks. It was a bit chilly and wet, but we really enjoyed the forest.
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