This is Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the Forest). You unfortunately cannot tell from the photo how absolutely ENORMOUS this tree is. It is still a good 20 meters or so behind me. They post its dimensions for you to marvel at as you take in the enormity of the tree. Its Girth is 16.41m, trunk volume (from the ground to its first branches) is 208.1m3, total height is 29.9m (fatty trees, but not super tall), and the trunk height is 10.21m. Okay. So the important one there is the girth - 16.41 meters around?? Its HUGE! This is the 2nd largest Kauri tree in NZ and its believe to be the oldest, about 4000 years old, according to a guy that I met later who normally does tours of the forest. That puts it in the realm of the oldest tree in the world, a bristlecone pine in California that's belived to be 4600 years old. We're lucky that this area is so inaccessible that these giants weren't logged like so many of the Kauri forests.