Nicky & Cookie

No idea who was dancin or what moves they were bustin but that’s the name of the DOC Camp spot :) These kauri logs are the left overs of giant dams they built here in the twenties to rip out all the ancient native kauri giants. Turned out to be pretty devastating for the wildlife and the land. But musta “Seemed like a good idea at the time..” of course.

Impressive trigger-linked sets of dams were loaded up with thousands of monster tree trunks and sprung to cause an enormous, gorge-carving torrent of water powerful enough to drive the valuable logs out of the mountains to the valley below. 28,000 of these were carried down in a single drive once, and these are extra ordinarily MASSIVE trees too. I’d be getting *well* out the way if I’d have lived in that valley, for sure!