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Nikau Jungle,Kahurangi National Park

Palmela
Palmela
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Just back from a week of exploration in the Kahurangi National Park-New Zealand and wanted to share the beauty of the place...Dream on!!!

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    Thank you SO MUCH for these wonderful, habitat photographs !  :greenthumb:

    San Francisco, California

    Amazing!!

    Beautiful place.  Looked at it on Google maps and hardly any roads in the park.  How did you get around in there?  Thanks for posting, post more if you have them.

    Beautiful! 

    I was up by Greymouth not too long ago and was in heaven with the forest of Nikau palms along the coast.

    Thanks for the post.

    Tim

    Tim

    Hilo, Hawaii

    Thanks a lot for sharing.

    Once in my life I have to come to New Zealand to see all these beauties. I'm addicted to Nikaus:yay:

    Eckhard

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    Very nice!!

    wow, wonderful pics. I especially love the first one with the rata trees in bloom.

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    Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your experience!

    Kim Cyr

    Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
    and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
    All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

    Superb !

    Amazing place! Very nice pictures 

     Very nice pictures , very peutifful photos! 

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    Philippe

     

    Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

     

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    Amazing, Iv'e gotta check that place out if I'm ever in the south island for sure.

    Wow, wow, wow. Drooling

    Are the red flowering trees  Metrosideros excelsa [pohutukawa] ?

    Very nice stands  of nikaus. 

    Edited by Alberto

    Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

    Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

     

    I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

    And I thought this was paradise, that is beautiful, gotta go there sometime. Thanks for sharing 

    aloha

    Gotta get me to NZ.

    Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

     

     

    You made my morning more special with these photos!

    New Zealand has long been one of many places on my travel wish list, but you have nudged it closer to the top!

    Wow!

    Thank you so much.

    Cindy Adair

    Habitat pictures are the best. These are dream-like! Thanks!

    Gorgeous, gorgeous! 

    Palos Verdes Estates - coastal Los Angeles - 33°45'N 118°24'W

    On a cliff, 2 blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Zone 10b - Sunset zone 24

    Friends (a family actually) with the option to live in the US or NZ narrowly gave up a chance to move to northern South Island, their favorite bit of the country.  A US job was just too good to pass up.  Of course I've been paying attention to their like of the region.  Now, there's splendid photos to further whet.  

    Red trees.  Rātā and/or pōhutukawa?  It seems the season.  I of course had to check spelling.  

    I've been to Punakaiki/Paparoa National Park.  Didn't make it to Cape Foulwind but have been to Cape Foulweather.  Capt. Cook almost repeated himself.

    Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
    USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
    Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
    4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

    Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

    Awesome place & pics.    Walking along that deserted beach is on my wishlist.  :greenthumb:

     

     

     

    Very nice.... so many things to see on South Island.  We visited the Nikau palms in Paparoa to the south of where you were, but missed Kahurangi, opting for Tasman Abel instead.  Interestingly, even though Tasman Abel is very close to Kahurangi we didn't see any Nikau palms within the park.

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    33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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    WOW!!!! amazing!

    Breathtakingly beautiful habitat photos - thank you so much for sharing!

    best regards

    Lars

     

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