Saturday, October 13, 2007

Stewart Island Trees

I'm fascinated by the trees in New Zealand. They are such different shapes than trees in the Western United States. On our trip to Stewart Island I had time to take lots of pictures of trees, so here are a few of them. I'm slowly learning the names. The first one is a cabbage tree, which is very common and usually not as big as this one. The second and third pictures are the kind of eucalyptus trees that comes from Australia, a different species than the one that grow in Northern California. They are viewed as a pest tree here, but I like them. The fourth one is a tree fern. The last photo was taken in Invercargill, the town on the South Island that is the jumping off place to Stewart Island. There's a cool tower in the background.








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