January 30, 2013
At the town of Omapere, the highway turns and heads south down the west coast of New Zealand, through the Waipoua Forest where the largest kauri trees grow. Kauri trees are New Zealand’s answer to California’s giant sequoia trees, massive tress over 1000 years old. After a long history of being logged, they are now they are protected, and the oldest giants grow along the west coast.
When we headed south, the scenery changed from grassy hills to a forest thick with lush vegetation and tree ferns. –Cyndi
