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Crossing the Waitawheta river en route to the hut. A nice easy tramp on the old tramline used to transport Kauri from the Waitawheta mill.
Kaimai Mamaku Conservation Park.
The Nankivell loco hauling logs out of the Puketi Forest in Northland, John Nankivell driving and his brother in law Herbet Baker. Not sure when the image was taken, maybe late 30's early 40's
Waipoua Kauri Forest
New Zealand North Island
Kauri are among the world's mightiest trees, growing to over 50 m tall, with trunk girths up to 16 m, and living for over 2,000 years. (NZ Department of Conservation)
Kauri Mountain, Northland. New Zealand.
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Kaurispariskunta seikkaili sarankulmankadulla. Kuvassa toinen. Otin kuvan pyörällä ajaessa joten tarkkuudessa on toivomisen varaa...sen lisäksi olin ajaa ojaan.
This towering wooden structure is the remains of a kauri dam, on Great Barrier Island, on the outer reaches of the Hauraki Gulf, and some 50 miles off Auckland, New Zealand. The logging took place in the 1860's completely decimating the stands of fine kauri, which was ideal for ships' spars. The dam was built across a stream, and water backed up behind it. Timber felled on the steep valley sides rolled down into the lake that was forming. When a worthwhile amount of logs had accumulated, the trapdoor in the dam was sprung, and the timber was carried down the erstwhile stream bed in a raging flood, to be collected easily on the shore. Perfect example of how to trash the environment. Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. January 1981. © Photo: David Hill.
Agathis robusta . Conifer native to Queensland, Australia.
Araucariaceae family - 'pine' of Southern hemisphere.
Tree has straight trunk up to 45m with short side branches.
You can often see this tree planted in Brisbane city streets - they look very attractive, and I think that not many people would know it is Australian conifer.
You can see an eucalypt trunk as well at the foreground (on the right).
Mount Coot-tha forest, Brisbane
Lake Barrine is a water filled crater left by a volcanic eruption approximately 10,000 years ago. In Queensland, Australia.
This fallen giant kauri tree is very cave like. There was enough passage to qualify as a cave. The breakdown is dry rotten wood that looks heavy but it is actually light. This photo was taken: WGS 84 S35 14 22.4 E173 37 36.3
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The photo were taken back in March 2012. I am just catching up with them. I had started to put up our trip to Northland but for some reason never got them all up.
The Greatest Tree in New Zealand
The kauri tree, Agathis australis, is New Zealand’s largest and most famous native tree. Located midway between Auckland and the Bay of Islands in the warm north of the country, The Kauri Museum tells some of the stories of this amazing tree.
Far more than a museum of timber, the Museum has stories of the Māori of the north eastern Kaipara, of European pioneers, of foresters and sawmillers, gum diggers and farmers, and of business people, fishers and the families who have made this area their home.
For More Info: www.kaurimuseum.com/
Looking down into the dark along Kauri point wharf. The Lights from Omokoroa can bee seen to the right and the light pollution in the clouds from Tauranga and Mount Maunganui.
Mount Maunganui itself can just be seen through the fence
Bosworth Mini spindle, kauri wood whorl, cherry shaft, 16 gm/0.57oz. Hard to capture the chatoyance of the wood.
Kauri is one of the forest trees of New Zealand that is known throughout many parts of the world because of the very large dimensions to which it grows and because of the superlative qualities of the timber. It is a conifer closely related to the pines. Several other species of Agathis grow in countries of the West Pacific including Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia, and Fiji. All possess fairly good timber qualities.
The true home of the New Zealand kauri extends from somewhat south of Auckland to the North Cape, though judging from the presence of pollen in bogs, it was present in the south of the South Island within recent geological times. Climatic change has driven it northwards. Mature trees are usually not more than 120 ft high, but diameters of the trunks occasionally reach 15 or more feet. The trunk is noted for its columnar, branchless form, the branches are shed by abscission. The crown is heavily branched, wide spreading and massive. The tree normally grows scattered or grouped, and the crowns form a distinctive, emergent upper canopy over secondary broad-leaved trees, the commonest of which are taraire (Beilschmiedia taraire) and tawa (B. tawa). Although slow by comparison with many introduced conifers, kauri is probably the fastest growing of New Zealand's native conifers. The ages of the largest trees are thought to be well over 1,000 years and are probably closer to 2,000 years. Around the trunk of older trees a litter of bark forms a mound known by the Maori name of puka. Leaf litter has the power of leaching soils and ultimately of forming a dense pan. Kauri forest soils are therefore notoriously poor for agriculture purposes. The tree produces a gum of commercial value. This gum was obtained by climbing the trees or digging the soil where Kauri forests had once existed.
Kauri.
Twin Kauri Scenic Reserve
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North Island, New Zealand.
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This magnificent tree is one of the few remaining giants of the forests that once clad the Coromandel Peninsula's precipitous slopes. By some chance the trunk has grown in a nearly perfect square shape almost up into the canopy, and thus it was spared the axe. A path through the bush takes visitors right to the bole of the tree, where a platform provides protection for the trees roots from too much traffic.
Kauro cones and seeds. Agathis australis Araucariaceae. I came across a good crop of kauri cones this autumn. I placed the ovoid cones in a sunny spot where they split apart to reveal the seeds and the bracts. The wing of the seed aids in wind dispersal and acts as a wick in absorbing the water necessary for germination. They germinate readily and should be sown not long after collection. They quickly lose their viability to germinate. The bracts or cone scales each have an acuminate projecting point. Cone scales are termed carpidia.
The surrounding rainforest at Lake Barrine contains giant kauri (Agathis microstachya), Red cedar trees and flowering umbrella trees (Schefflera actinophylla). Wildlife common in the area include eastern water dragons, giant eels, sawshell turtles, scrub pythons (Morelia kinghorni), Pied Cormorants, black ducks, plumed whistling ducks, black coot, whistling kites, brahminy kites, black kites, white breasted Sea eagles and dusky moorhens.
When you've grown up the son of the "Dean of American Multihulls," designer Jim Brown, there are a number of ways you might define yourself in contrast. In his book "Searunner Construction" (1971), a kind of guidebook for backyard builders of his distinctive trimarans, Brown Sr. paints a warm blend of hippie-ish experimentalism with a modern take on the ideals of such great figures in sailboat design as L. Francis Herreshoff. Reading Brown's remarks on the effects of propellers on maneuvering a trimaran at speed calls to mind the same righteous indignation L. Francis so hilariously indulges in when discussing the many facets of happy cruising in "the Compleat Cruiser." It's hard not to imagine L. Francis smiling down when Brown writes: "Modern man's dependence on equipment and tools for his survival has burdened him with much pedestrian plunder which has little use afloat."
Brown makes a great point, as much an engineering point as a philosophical one. The trimarans he designs are light craft, he explains, and keeping them light is essential to their performance and safety. Perhaps the austerity of this standpoint was a difficult one for some of the dreamers who built his boats; I look at the Searunner and it looks wonderfully commodious and friendly, sort of a seagoing VW bus. but it's clear that Brown is at pains to make his point.
Returning to the present, I reluctantly abandon Brown and Jo Hudson's sketches of dangly-titted ladies helping their partners saw plywood to return to my original premise: what kind of kids does a fellow like Jim Brown give us? One answer can be summed up in the picture above. In one case, anyway (he had 2 sons), Jim Brown's torch was taken up by his son Russell in the form of an abiding fascination with the outrigger sailing canoe, an architecture as elemental and maybe even older than the trimarans he grew up aboard.
Growing up within the DIY backyard boatbuilding revolution of the 60s and 70s, a time when the maturation of technology in bonding resins and plywood gave rise to a flowering of possible forms, Russell Brown never seemed to be held back by popular doctrine or convention, blithely refining -through a series of four of these pacific proas- his own statement about sailing craft. As similar as the premise is to that his father put forward: simplicity, lightness, speed, minimalism, the boats resulting cut a remarkably different profile. It seems he took a long look at all those catamarans and trimarans and figured out a way to make something simpler and more harmonious in its relationship to wind and water.