This is a Kauri tree. There's not very many of them left that are this large, since they were logged for the valuable timber. This one is 13 metres to the first branch and probably close to 2 metres in diameter.
The view back towards Tauranga from the top of Sentinel Rock. It's around 25 kilometres to The Mount in the picture.
Long exposure of Whataroa Falls, same place as last post.
Close up of the same cascade.
On the Aongatete River. 
About 200 metres upstream of this, theres a swimming hole thats at least 3 metres deep, and has ledges around it that you can jump off into that water. Pretty sweet stuff. 
Kaiate Falls.
Further down the Kaiate. The water is polluted now, but we'll be back here later to swim.
Thats all for now. Next time I'll have more up about things the youth group and I have been up to. Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night!
This is just a bit further done down stream. Probably 6 meters high.
And still further down. There’s a 15 meter cascade behind me, I just wasn’t going to climb down that far without anyone else there and no cell coverage
At the beach during a scavenger hunt with the teens. That’s Alexander leaping off the bank. The guy in green was just doing backflips on to the sand from the grass.
Brooke and Nick later that night (or maybe the next morning, it’s all a blur now!) for a marathon Halo game with the guys. They’re both students at the Bible college here in Tauranga.
