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Tane Mahuta is the largest living #Kauri tree. It is difficult to show the size of these trees in pictures. The trunk of this tree is over 17m high (above that hight the lowest branches grow) and has a circumference of about 13m. The tree is home to a huge variety of other plants (even smaller trees). It is estimated to be between 1200 and 2000 years old. Like all Kauri it is threatened by kauri dieback disease, a fungal infection that usually kills the trees.
#photography #naturephotography #travelphotography #trees #aotearoa #newzealand

photograph shows a kauri tree that is towering over the surrounding forest. The trunk is greyish brown. In the crown of the tree there are various ferns and epiphytes growing.

A year ago I went to revisit Te Matua Ngahere, a #kauri tree that might be 1500 years old, or maybe even 3000. Estimates differ wildly. #photography #naturephotography #aotearoa #newzealand

Photograph shows an enormous Kauri tree surrounded by forest. The trunk of the tree is so wide, that at first glance it doesn't really register as a tree at all, compared to its neighbours. There are only some branches left at the top of the tree (it has lost some of them during a storm a few years ago). There is a whole lot of other plants (ferns, grasses and even smaller trees) growing on the Kauri.

Kritische Stimmen zu #Kauri findet man selten. Hier schon:
https://spieltroll.de/?p=18633

Aber es steht in der Tradition der #SdJ Jury, über Themen/Settings, Repräsentanz (Puerto Rico, Robin Hood) oder auch was es auslöst eine Plastikorgie (Challengers) auszuzeichnen, wenig nachzudenken.

#unpolitisch 😔

#brettspiele #boardgames #spieltroll

#Kauri konnte ich auch ausprobieren. Vom Entscheidungsspielraum sehr begrenzt, so dass ich mich durchaus gelangweilt habe. Für Fans assymetrischer Area Control Spiele mit einem leichten Einstieg aber gegebenenfalls genau das richtige Spiel. #Brettspiele

Gestern mit Christian zu zweit #Kauri #AufDenWegenVonMarieCurie #ToyBattle 1/2

Spieleabend zu dritt. Bislang zuerst noch zu zweit #Zenith, dann #TheGang und gerade #Kauri.

Mal sehen, was noch kommt. 😀

Mit Christian und zu Beginn der KleinenFrauWagner #Kauri (Kennerspiel Root), #NovaRoma (Die Euro-Spielesammlung) und #Zenith (Leistenschubsen und Engine bauen).

Gestern Abend zu dritt #Kauri (asymmetrisches AreaControl) und dann noch zu zweit #RivalCities.

Day one of 2025 down. Had a walk around the bush and partook in a little #forestbathing - by that I mean I zoned out and listened to the birds, not sure if I was doing it right. I love the bark on the beautiful old #Kauri #trees.

Made curry goat for dinner. It was good but still a little tough needs a bit longer in the instapot next time. Tasted alright though. Not a bad way to spend #newyearsday

A close up of the bark of a New Zealand Kauri tree with its distinctive pattern.

Went to see the biggest Kauri tree (Tāne Mahuta) yesterday. They just reopened the redone track a few days ago. Turns out bringing the hiking boots was overkill. It's about 30 sec from the parking lot, over level platforms.

#kauri #tree #walk

Looking up at the top of the biggest kauri tree

Photo of the track to the viewing platform.

Earth Table – une table en résine et bois de 50000 ans
https://www.2tout2rien.fr/earth-table-une-table-en-resine-et-bois-de-50000-ans/
#bois #EarthTable #ent #fer #Kauri #meuble #mobilier #NouvelleZélande #océan #RenzoPiano #résine #Riva1920 #table #terre #tourbe #vieux

Earth Table - une table en résine et bois de 50000 ans 1

Word Search Puzzle 932

Word List : #carsmith #lovelies #tanya #kaphs #bedivere #gamps #tapuyan #lucretia #tummy #arion #looed #paludina #gulches #cilices #forces #kauri #towner #beamer

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/28/word-search-puzzle-932/

https://www.rennesenjeux.fr/prix-lizzie-magie/

#jds #kauri #LizzieMagie #rennesenjeux

Hi liebe 🐘
Heute gibt es wieder eine Postkarte von der Insel Tiree. Ich war #Kaurimuscheln oder #Cowrieshells sammeln. Hier ist meine Ausbeute.
#muscheln
#Tiree
#Schottland
#Scotland
#cowrie
#Kauri
#Argyllandbute

Viele Muscheln und Schneckenhäuser, das meiste sind Kaurimuscheln

Some mighty talent in the local team! https://www.northlandrugby.co.nz/high-performance/semco-kauri

#womensrugby #kauri #northland

I wrote about #kauri and Kauri dieback for e-tangata https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/saving-kauri/

Thelma … gotta love a wooden yacht
#WoodenBoat #Auckland #kauri #sailing #photography

It was in a Kauri forest near Dargaville, NZ, that I had a... communication with one of them trees.
It was in May 2012 and I wasn't climate-aware yet.

I touched its bark for a while. Then I asked it to tell me how it is to stay at one place for a thousand years. When no answer came, I told it how it is to move around, to see different things every moment, to move the legs, to sit on a train and look out the window at the landscape rushing by etc. I told it in thought images. Not in words.

I kept my hand on its bark a while longer.
Then I realised I had to pee somewhat urgent and turned away to walk back to the parking lot.

After 10 steps or so, I noticed how my legs became heavier and heavier. I could hardly move them at all, anymore. It felt like something was holding me back, psychologically. I kept walking. Very slowly. And a bit scared because I didn't know what was happening and I was alone in the forest and had to pee and...

Then I thought, maybe the crazy thing happened and the tree is speaking to me in such a way that it shows me how it is when you can't move...

I'm not an esoteric or a Harry-Potter-type of person. I'm an IT professional, for god's sake.

But I stopped walking. I turned around to face the tree again. And in my mind, I thanked it for the insight, and asked it to please let me go now. Because I'm a thing that has to move and can't stay in one place for a thousand years.

Turning around, walking a few more steps: still heavy and difficult. A few more steps... then it got easier.
And after yet more steps, it was normal again.

#Kauri #NewZealand #Treehugger #WeirdestMoment

#4000isTheLimit😁

@juliewebgirl
Ja? Cool! And I heard, trees use mushrooms to talk with each other instead of microphones.
Or #fungi.

Maybe that #Kauri had spread the word to the shrooms below, and first, I just couldn't feel it bc I was standing too close to the trunk.
Only at a few metres distance did I feel what I was being told.

The heaviness in the whole body was really odd. So sudden and without apparent reason other than my little chat with the tree.

Lovely to imagine it as a real experience, real in the sense that it could have been measured by an outsider somehow.