Trees and River Dams
The Kauri Forest
One day Phil and Grace wanted to know how did they get all those Kauri trees out of the forest without building any roads. This is how – when the floods came the trees sailed down the rivers and were controlled by hand made dams. The forest had 9 dams altogether and the second largest dam was left for us to discover.
The hike up was 2 hours and it was a lot of stairs all built out of rock about 100 years ago. The dam was pretty amazing to think it was built so long ago. Now a historic site you are not supposed to go on the dam.
The hut at the top of the trail was pretty amazing with sleeping quarters a huge kitchen and a huge covered bbq area.
A side trip took us up hundred’s more stairs up to the Pinnacles; these very large rock structures were pretty cool and the stairs were built into the rock but all seemed pretty safe to walk on. From the top the views were awesome we could see the South Pacific Ocean and mountains forever.
Here is a video of some of the trail and the swing bridges we had to go over.
Fast Tube by Casper
The time delay photos are fascinating. I loved searching for things that had moved between frames – branches, ferns, people…