Oct 9: Waipoua Forest Kauris

This forest holds some of the largest existing Kauri trees- these trees get fat, they put our big Canadian pines to shame in the girth department! Tane Mahuta (the biggest one) is 13.77m/45ft around!
We stopped at the Kauri museum a few days earlier for some learning since all the Kauri stuff is new to us. There's a long history of logging and gum-digging. The small museum was surprisingly impressive, they have way more than just tree stuff, all sorts of NZ history and artifacts/collections.