Kuaotunu Reserve

The Coromandel Coast’s Kuaotunu Reserve fringed the beach on the southern edge of Whangapoua. A grove of pohutukawa trees were bent and twisted from years of extreme weather conditions.

Green

 

While the west coast rains, and rains some more, at this time of year we reap the benefit of daily downpours with lime green foliage. When skeletal trees sprout new leaves, the colour is refreshing, and for a green lover like me, even more so.

Tokorangi Forest

Located on the outskirts of Rotorua, was Tokorangi’s redwood forest. While these trees are more famously associated with California, the redwoods in New Zealand grow faster because there is no long dry spell like the west coast of the U.S.A.

Remembering Autumn

With the days at their shortest, and where I live, mostly dull so there’s rarely a glimpse of the sun, it’s therapeutic to recall fall of two months ago.

New Zealand’s kauri forest

I had heard of New Zealand’s kauri trees since my school days when we studied New Zealand. Now I was on my way to Waipoua Kauri Forest on New Zealand’s North Island’s west coast.