{"id":14600,"date":"2024-04-21T11:21:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2024-04-21T11:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:21:35","slug":"big-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/04\/21\/big-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of New Zealand’s prehistoric trees is the kauri tree, which live to be a couple thousand years old and grow to diameters of 16 feet or more – smaller than redwoods and sequoias, but still very impressive. Unfortunately the vast majority of them were cut down for timber, but a few remain, particularly along the “Kauri Coast” on the northwest side of the North Island, which just so happens to be my current location. The weather has been a bit uncooperative, so while I got to do one short hike in a small kauri grove, wind and rain resulted in a new plan to get up early tomorrow to revisit the big trees before I have to check out of my Airbnb at 10am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow I’ve only got five nights left in New Zealand after tonight. Thinking back, the day of many hikes<\/a> at Aoraki \/ Mount Cook National Park exactly one month ago feels like a lifetime has passed, but at the same time this trip has flown by. Thankfully the next five nights should be a good ending to the time here, with weather forecasts suggesting that the sun will return for a couple of days of scuba diving in what’s supposed to be one of the world’s most impressive dive sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kauri<\/p>\n

Kauri trees are not small, and this tree isn’t even the biggest one I saw today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of New Zealand’s prehistoric trees is the kauri tree, which live to be a couple thousand years old and grow to diameters of 16 feet or more – smaller than redwoods and sequoias, but still very impressive. Unfortunately the vast majority of them were cut down for timber, but a few remain, particularly along … Continue reading “Big Trees”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,77,30],"class_list":["post-14600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2024-walkabout","tag-new-zealand","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14609,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}