Next stop – the AH Reed Memorial park, which has a canopy walk where we can walk through the Kauri forest and see the big, huge trees that are 500+ years old. Alice of course has different directions than I do, but we follow my little hard copy map, and wind our way up the back side of the Volcanic cone, past the Abbey Caves (no, we are not going into caves!) and find the parking lot for the park without issue. Here again, there is a car park guy, called an Ambassador (its on the back of his vest), who gives us info and tells us which way to walk on the loop trail to see the different features of the park.
This reminds us very much of the NC Arboretum. The same type trails, just with different vegetation. We pass over the babbling Waikoromiko Stream, plus this wild looking twisted tree that looks more like an elephant trunk than a tree….
…then over the stream again, and on to the massive Kauri trees. There are 2 of them, and you really can’t begin to explain how huge, massive, enormous they are. The pictures don’t do them justice, so you’ll just have to imagine.
As we are leaving the trail at the car park, who do we see, but Captain Wild Bill again. He recognizes us and asks if we are doing the tour and enjoying it, which we are. Then we all laugh about the fact that he’s stalking us, and head to our cars. He leaves before us, but Ed and I both joke that he’s probably going to the Falls next and we’ll see him again there….and…as you can guess…..in fact we do!
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