Long range

For 90 years the answer to the question Leonard Cockayne's gravestone asks has been YES! But the question still stands. And thankfully for us, so do seven hectares of virgin forest and a living plant museum  just outside the downtown core. The Otari-Wilton Bush is a reminder that wondrous, impossible treasures in the present are the results of stubborn and lonely voices that shaped decisions of the past.

Next time we go we'll have to find the 800 year old Rimu tree that still grows at the top of the hill.