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History museum
TravelPod Member ReviewsKauri Museum North Island
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Excellent museum
dropbearsinnz 4 contributions Macclesfield South Australia, Australia Sep 14, 2011
We needed to allow more time for this museum, but it was awesome....
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Kauri Museum North Island
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Kauri trees, Canadians, Tongans and the Dropbears
We headed out earlyish, 10 am, to go North for our first Rugby game. The game was Canada vs Tonga at 5 pm in Whangarai, 3 hours north of Auckland.We hopped on our tour bus, our driver today is Gilbert and our navigator is Cheryl. After a loop of some of the suburbs we got onto the motorway and headed for the Kauri Museum.
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Visit to the Kauri Museum
Besides learning all about the big trees, also some amazing Kauri Gum (Amber) on display.
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Related BlogsKauri Museum North Island
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Kauri Museum
... up our gear and headed for the Kauri Museum. Having already visited Tana Matta, the oldest and largest Kauri tree still living in New Zealand, I was quite interested to learn more about the history of one of New Zealands most valuable natural ...
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First Tow
... around the forest. Cold night in the van, oh for a 4 star hotel. Sunday 5th October We were the first in to the Kauri museum. Lots of big planks of wood and photos of early bushman, tough guys with moustaches and large saws.Not much else to say ...
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Traveles around the North Island
... ) Capital" of New Zealand. It lies approximately 2 1/2 hours drive North-West of Auckland. This town was built on New Zealand's early kauri tree trade and at one time boasted New Zealand's highest population)where my servas hosts Bruce and Theresa were ...
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Kauri
... . Feeling more at ease with the automatic car it caused a few chuckles when a hurriedly made left hand turn up to the Kauri Museum saw the windscreen wipers come on instead of the indicator. We arrived at the museum mid afternoon in time to have a ...
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Onwards and Upwards - well Northwards at least
... nbsp;a tree, Tane Mahuta is said to be the Father of the forest or something like that - and he is massive!!! The largest Kauri tree growing in New Zealand today. He is like 17 metres in cirumference and so so tall you can't even get the whole thing in a ...
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Roadtrip to Matakohe in campervan
... 4pm and went shopping first, we had to fill our fridge, hahahahah The plan was to arrive at Matakohe and have a look at the Kauri Museum (Kauri is a tree). At 7.30pm we needed a coffee and so we stopped at a McCofe. We had a few problems to find a ...
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Travels from 90 mile beach to Dargaville
... cherry trees have gone and they built that stupid railway...phew. And then just to finish off the day we pop into the Kauri museum to find out more about these spectacular trees. This museum is just like stepping back in time with a plethera of life ...
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Week two
... took a walk along the coastal walkway. We stopped along the way in the Waipoua Forest to view Tane Mahuta - the largest kauri Tree in New Zealand - and then continued on to Dargaville where we stayed the night. Today we wended our way back to Red Beach ...
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90 mile beach
... Now time to begin our journey South via Auckland. We took time to see the largest growing Kauri tree before visiting the Kauri Museum which was so much better than we had envisaged. Items made from the once burried Kauri Forest trees are 30,000 to ...
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Waipapakauri Beach
... . 10 Minuten spaeter waren wir bereits auf unserem Weg, ohne Fruehstueck und immer noch muede. Wir sind dann direkt zum Kauri Museum (riesige Baeume) gefahren und haben uns zuerst mal draussen vor dem Van ein schoenes Fruehstueck gezaubert. So gegen ...
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