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.

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.

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.