3200 year old tree project

Recount

This is my recount of how they captured the image of the sequoia tree.They had to walk deep into the sequoia national park were the “president” stands. The lifted the huge camera into the air with pulleys and ropes. People had to climb up the tree to measure how far out the camera would go. They had to take hundreds of photos so the camera went side to side and up and down. They had to put all the photos together to make one huge photo of the tree!

Summary

Wow this amazing tree called the “president” he is a Giant sequoias. He has been estimated to be 3200 years old.  He measures 247 ft in length, 45,000 cubic feet on volume, 27 ft high and wide and has over 2 billion needles. He also adds 1 cubic meter of wood a year! Make him one of the fastest growing trees in the world. A Giant sequoias can only be found on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas in California.That’s 5000-8000 ft above sea level! Until now the tree had never had its photo taken. And they had to take lots of different photos and put them together to make this.

Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta is the biggest tree in New Zealand (counting width). He is a huge kauri tree in Northland of New Zealand and is estimated to be from 1,250 to 2,500 years old.

It’s Maori name Tane means god of the forest.

This is how big he is

Trunk girth	13.77m
Trunk height	17.68m
Total height	51.2m
Trunk volume	244.5 Cubic meters
Total volume	516.7 Cubic meters

Pandora Pond Champ

Here I've written about a summer moment at Pandora Pond

PANDORA POND CHAMP

The three of us lined up like soldiers ready to strike under the bridge at Pandora Pond. THREE,

TWO, ONE, GO” yelled my cousin as the race began. Water was splashed in my

face as we started. I was in the lead when BANG I hit a bank. I watched as the others past me.I finally got free but I had a lot of ground to cover. it was not long before I caught up with my Dad. SMASH he crashes into me he laughed as he past me again “that‘s it” I yelled, I stuck my oar in the water and paddled harder than ever before. ZOOM! I passed my dad splashed him in the face with freezing cold water “hay” he said as I glided away sneering at my cousin, he glared right back. He was in the lead so he waited and started daydreaming “see ya latter” I said in a mean  voice. I was 10 M in front of him as he finally snapped into action “WHAT!” he said as started to paddle even my dad was in front  I swiveled around the buoy and headed down the home strate weaved past a whew other kayaker’s, dodged some swimmer’s and was almost there.

Then suddenly a familiar someone pulled up beside me it was my dad and he did not look happy

“I will be the winner thanks” CRASH!! it was my cousin  slowing my Dad “Go” he said

“we’ll be a team”  “sweet” I said as I approached the shore

“YES” I yelled as I hit land “we have WON”