Travel Blog

We had a quiet day. Started out with a trip into town for the weekly grocery run. While in Warkworth, we finally took the time to go see the famous big Kauri tree in a park near town. We were very pleasantly surprised with the park. We had expected to see a big tree - yep, it's big, sorta like that huge Sitka spruce we saw in Olympic National Park, WA - but we hadn't known that there was also a boardwalk trail through a native forest full of younger Kauris, tree ferns, and lots of other native species. It was really very interesting and lovely.

Spent the afternoon making arrangements to visit the Kauri Forest later this week and prepping some food. Didn't have time for any fancy kind of painting, so I'll go with a loose rendition of the top of the valley:

Valley