Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta

"Lord of the Forest"

While we were still on the northern part of the north island we thought we would go visit the largest tree in New Zealand, it is a Kauri tree. The tree is named Tane Mahuta which means lord if the forest. It is 2000 years old, it is 51.5 meters tall, and the trunk girth is 13.8 meters. We had a 2 hour detour from our original destination to see the tree. While on the way we were joking that the tree is probably just a big tree and not that exciting, definitely not worth the 2 hour detour in the rain to get to it. After about 5 minutes into the walk to see Tane Mahuta we came into a clearing and all four of us gasped and stared in Awe of what was in front of us, Tane Mahuta was truly magnificent! Pictures really can’t do it justice. It was so huge and tall. Look at how small Natalie, Maegen, and Johnny are.