A walk in the rainforest today. (Palms in habitat)

[cbmnz]

Feeling the effects here of a massive storm (933hPA) way down in the Southern Ocean at the moment even though its 2000km away.. So it was a good day for a walk in the local rainforest which provides shelter and the rain almost enhances the ambiance of.  Plus you get it all to one's self as few think of going out there in bad weather.

The R. Sapida in this valley look more like Kentia due to the environment they are growing in, it's a nice part of the park for viewing them as the bush is not too thick.

 

 

 

 

 

[palmfriend]

Spectacular！

Thank you very much for sharing！

Best regards from Okinawa -

Lars

[The Silent Seed]

That's a really nice video - thank you for sharing! Are these places mostly wild, or planted / non-natives? Any animals in the brook? 

[Palm Tree Jim]

Habitat video....awesome and thanks.

That is some canopy.

[sandgroper]

Terrific scenery,  New Zealand really is beautiful.

[Darold Petty]

Mark, thanks very much for this video !

[cbmnz]

6 hours ago, santoury said:

That's a really nice video - thank you for sharing! Are these places mostly wild, or planted / non-natives? Any animals in the brook? 

Completly wild and natural. That small valley is one of the best parts of the park as the old growth trees were never cut so the ecosystem is is fully intact. The stream would contain a handful of species of native galaxoid fish, as well as eels and one or two native small crustaceans. There are introduced trout in a larger river it feeds into further down 

[The Silent Seed]

Thank you for the look into your world! It's amazing. 

 

[GottmitAlex]

Just marvelous!

[Hilo Jason]

Thanks for sharing that with us! 

[Tyrone]

I didn’t know that NZ has galaxoid fish. Here we used to have them but they introduced Gambusia back in the 1920s and a lot of the native fish got eaten by them.

Love the walk through the forest. Gotta get to NZ one day.

[joe_OC]

Thank You for the video.  New Zealand might be our next destination.

[cbmnz]

18 hours ago, Tyrone said:

I didn’t know that NZ has galaxoid fish. Here we used to have them but they introduced Gambusia back in the 1920s and a lot of the native fish got eaten by them.

Love the walk through the forest. Gotta get to NZ one day.

Human settlement  and introduced species have had a huge impact on them  here too, but they are hanging on ok in streams in  bush reserves and more remote areas. We did lose the NZ Grayling through,  it was our version of the Passenger pigeon,  so common in 1870's was used for fertilizer, by 1923 was totally extinct. Apparently was almost identical to the Australian grayling which survives in Tasmania, so much so that thought has been given to reintroduction if enough could be groveled up.