A graveyard of bleached logs covers the beach in front of Heaphy Hut. Photo: Pat Barrett

A graveyard for trees

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Heaphy Hut, Kahurangi National Park

Heaphy Hut is at the mouth of the Heaphy River in a magnificently wild environment, on the West Coast. Hummocky hills are wreathed in luxuriant forest, a sheer headland faces the wrath of the Tasman Sea and a wide, deep river flows between bluff and beach. Carcasses of giant trees appear on the sands following […]
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