Featured Kauri Walks of Northland Footprints Waipoua www.footprintswaipoua.co.nz G Guided evening walk into the with Maori NEARBY ACTIVITIES guides. The guides explain the spiritual significance of their ancestors, the giant kauri trees, sing Maori waiata & ACCOMMODATION (songs) and talk about the night creatures of the rainforest and how Maori used plants for medicinal purposes.

Kauri Coast, Waipoua & Kauri Walks Waipoua Forest Visitor Centre www.kauricoast.com 1 Waipoua Forest 2 3 The Yakas Set in the heart of Waipoua Forest by a beautiful river 4 Trounson Kauri Park Loop Track with swimming holes, spend a night at the complex in the rainforest and listen to the calls of the kiwi. Camp sites, huts or cabins. Information centre and café, plus the The Kauri Museum www.kaurimuseum.com K chance to plant a kauri seedling – a legacy for the future! This award-winning museum tells a fascinating story surrounding the mighty kauri tree, showing the history of Nelsons Kaihu Kauri www.nelsonskaihukauri.co.nz K how these giant trees supported the early settlers in NZ. Ancient kauri is milled on site for furniture and feature The on-site shop sells a wide range of kauri products. sarking, flooring and detailed building finishing. The Opposite the museum is the Gum Diggers’ Café. stump material is crafted into beautiful collectibles for (Shipwreck) Museum the gallery or for export. www.dargavillemuseum.co.nz ACCOMMODATION: KAURI COAST See the Rainbow Warrior masts, Kauri gumdiggers hall and relics from French warship L’Alcmene wrecked Copthorne Hotel & Resort Hokianga, Omapere 1851 and many other shipwrecks recovered from the www.copthornehokianga.co.nz Kauri Coast. Kokohuia Lodge , Omapere The Woodturners Kauri Gallery & Working Studio K www.kokohuialodge.co.nz www.thewoodturnersstudio.co.nz Kauri Coast Top 10 Holiday Park, Dargaville G Rick Taylor harvests ancient Kauri from local swamp www.kauricoasttop10.co.nz land and crafts it into stunning pieces. Also handmade Kauri paper handmade, , Kauri lidded treasure Waipoua Lodge, near Waipoua Forest boxes & Kauri gum soap. www.waipoualodge.co.nz

selling a high standard of made gifts and Bay of Islands Kauri Walks souvenirs including a fine selection of ancient Kauri wooden 5 6 Manginangina Kauri Walk Oromahoe Road Traverse bowls and boxes turned and carved by local craftsmen.

Adventure Puketi, Kerikeri G The Kauri Workshop www.kerikeri.co/kauri-workshop K www.forestwalks.com Kauri manufacturing and retail business making bowls, Guided day and night forest walks into the Puketi platters, kitchen implements, cheese boards and many rainforest in the Bay of Islands. The guides share stories, other items. They also make to order and post overseas. history, culture and their knowledge of the flora and fauna. ACCOMMODATION: KERIKERI Ngawha Springs Hot Pools, near Kaikohe Kerikeri Park Motel www.kerikeriparkmotel.co.nz www.nzhotpools.co.nz/regions/northland 88 Lodge www.88lodge.co.nz The hot springs have therapeutic properties and are the Avalon Resort www.avalonresort.co.nz source of the steam used at the Ngawha geothermal Bed of Roses www.bedofroses.co.nz power station. Each pool has a different, but natural, Moon Gate Villa www.moongatevilla.com chemical makeup. Puketi Heights B&B www.forestwalks.com/accommodation Treghan Cottage www.treghancottage.co.nz Native Nature Tours, near Kawakawa G www.nativenaturetours.co.nz ACCOMMODATION: PAIHIA, OPUA An authentic eco cultural tourism experience steeped Crows Nest Villas www.crowsnest.co.nz in Maori culture. where the Maori language and ancient Cliff Edge by the Sea www.cliffedge.co.nz customs are still practiced regularly. Learn about Scenic Hotel www.scenichotelgroup.co.nz traditional Maori medicines and foods, take part in a native Copthorne Hotel & Resort www.copthornebayofislands.co.nz tree planting ceremony, enjoy a Hangi feast and relax in the comfort of a secluded bush camp or family marae. Tanoa Paihia www.tanoahotels.com Kingsgate Hotel Autolodge www.kingsgateautolodge.co.nz The Cabbage Tree, Paihia & Kerikeri K Allegra House www.allegra.co.nz www.thecabbagetree.co.nz Decks of Paihia www.decksofpaihia.com Two award winning stores in Paihia and now in Kerikeri The Waterfront Suites www.thewaterfrontpaihia.co.nz Ancient Kauri Kingdom www.ancientkauri.co.nz K Top of the North Kauri Walks The Ancient Kauri Kingdom retails the precious Ancient Kauri 11 Gumdiggers Buried Forest Park heirloom products and ships them all over the world, guaranteeing their products’ age, quality, authenticity and workmanship.

Kiwi North Museum, Heritage Park and Kiwi House Whangarei & Tutukaka Kauri Walks www.whangareimuseum.co.nz 7 AH Reed Kauri Park 8 Tane Moana If you don’t get to see a kiwi in the wild, visit the nocturnal Kiwi house at the Kiwi North Museum. Also on The Kauri Shop K www.thekaurishop.co.nz display is New Zealand’s morepork (native owl), gecko, The shop is packed with products made from ancient tuatara, Moa bones recently found in a local cave and swamp Kauri including bowls, platters, boards, utensils, Maori taonga (treasures). clocks, barometers, frames and albums. ACCOMMODATION: WHANGAREI Natural Wood Creations www.kauri.net K Lupton Lodge, Whangarei www.luptonlodge.co.nz Manufacturing and retailing Ancient Swamp Kauri clocks and barometers using only the best Seiko clock ACCOMMODATION: TUTUKAKA movements from Japan and Barostar weather instruments Oceans Resort Hotel www.oceansresorthotel.co.nz from France. There are over 3500 clocks on display. Pacific Rendezvous Motel www.pacificrendezvous.co.nz

The kauri tree, , is New Zealand’s largest and most famous native tree. The kauri is a type of conifer or pine tree which grows in the subtropical northern part of the North Island. Ancestors of the kauri first appeared in the Jurassic Period 190 – 135 million years ago. The kauri hardwood forests are among the most ancient in the world. The Kauri Timber Industry and was easily collected by the gum diggers. As this In the 18th and 19th centuries, long wide planks of disappeared, gum diggers probed in the ground with faultless, superb timber were cut from the mighty gum spears to find the gum, then dug it up. In the kauri tree trunks. The timber was used for many mid 1800’s this gum was exported to London and purposes: ship building (including masts and spars America and used commercially in varnish in later of sailing ships), houses, furniture, bridges, fences, in the manufacture of linoleum. Special pieces were dams, patterns (used for metal casting), vats and tanks, polished and carved to make extremely beautiful barrels, large rollers (in the textile industry), railway collection pieces. Kauri gum was used by the Maori sleepers, mine-props, carving, wood turning and many people for cooking and lighting fires because it burns other uses. By the early 1900s, most kauri forest had very easily. It was also used as a pigment to make the been logged. Although there was growing concern for dark colour in tattoos, and as a chewing gum. the survival of remaining native forest, the high value of kauri timber meant that the forest was still exploited. A Ancient Swamp Kauri final push to extract the last of the kauri swept through Swamp kauri refers to kauri timber which has been the north in the 1920s and 1930s, reducing the forest to recovered from under the ground from forests which the few patches that survive today. were buried by natural cataclysmic events long ago. Carbon dating has indicated that logs were buried Kauri Gum up to 50,000 years ago, predating the migration of Kauri gum is the fossilized resin of the kauri tree which Neanderthal man and was already buried in swamps is leaked out through cracks in the bark. As it hardens before the onset of the last Ice Age. Leaves and it falls to the ground around the tree. This process cones are often preserved with the logs but these has been happening for millions of years. Many years quickly deteriorate when exposed to the air. Ancient ago, there were vast quantities of gum in the ground Kauri is the oldest workable wood in the world.

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