A fantastic museum out in the middle

of the countryside!

Just outside the museum, beautiful countryside.

A fully restored sawmill, all the machines were driven
  off of one engine turning the driveshaft in the middle.

An amazing picture of them cutting down a huge Kauri tree
can't imagine they did this with a simple hand saw.

This is in the museum, a Kauri tree had been killed by a bolt
of lightening, they used old logging techniques to take the tree
down and mill it.  This is a "slice" of the Kaori tree.

The Kauri gum which oozes from the tree and then hardens,
similiar to ember but much younger, only a few hundred years
as opposed to a few million years for ember.