3200 Year Old Tree

Photographing the 3200 Year Old Tree

First, read and summarise the article.

This giant sequoia tree is 3200 years old and not till now it has not been photographed with a special camera.

It is 227 feet tall, 45,000 cubic  feet in volume, 27 feet wide and there is over 2 billion needles that more than any tree on the planet.

It’s one of the fastest growing trees in the world. It only exists in one place,in the Sierra Nevadas in California.

They had a very special camera that takes heaps of photos with a few cameras on it.

Then:

- watch the video and recount how 'they' took the photo.  

 It took ages wiring the things together then a even harder job pulling it up on pulleys to take the photos to the very top. It took them 32 days to - put the photo together in all its right bit and pieces.

describe the photo

Its a very unique photo because its got put together by heaps of different photos. I think its very clever because it must of taken a lot of work because it took 32 day just to put together.

I reckon it was worth  doing all the work because it looks incredible.  

- write about the biggest tree in our country

Te Matua Ngahere is the biggest tree in New Zealand but not the tallest. Its 16.41m around the tree trunk, 10.21m that is the trunk height, the total height is 29.9m   and the trunk volume is 201.8m.

The tree is based in Waipoua Forest of Northland Region New Zealand. The tree means father of the forest. To get to it you have to park your car and walk to it on a track. You used to be able to go right up to it but not anymore because kauri trees root are close to the surface and they don’t want to hurt them.