Photos of You and Impressive Trees

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What country is that/

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It is Sierra Leone, West Africa.


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That gathered around like you where gonna jump.

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No Jumping! It was a spectacle for them to watch - believe it or not most of them are my friends or kids and parents of my friends :)

Here is link of a short video that I posted on youtube - I also posted it on TB a while ago.

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Here's a similar sized tree in the Capital Freetown Freetown


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really awesome. I just viewed the video. Great job on the video and very interesting.

glad you re-posted because i never saw it before.

really cool, glad to have watched it; unlike many other videos I have seen.


Awesome tree, wow is it big, and with no competition.... amazing.

Just something I noticed; you sure have very light skin since you left your homeland. Is that from change in climate?

I view the town on google earth, to bad that location doesn't have any detailed images. can't see the tree.
 
Here are a few favorites. One is actually Atkins between a sweet looking pair of 15 footers in Redwood National Park. Pretty sure these are in my website redwood pages albums too.

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What is growing on the branch?

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I can't tell you exactly what that is - the tree is full of them though. I climbed over 100' and decided to stop - there are too many potential hazazards up there - and no hospital for 10 hours... Green Mamba and Cobra not to mention a bunch of large insects ;) I figured I was about half way up. There is an entire ecosystem in the canopy - birds, bush babies etc. I remember one time when me and bunch of my friends were sitting on our front veranda and right in front of us there was a loud "wock!" on the ground. We all jumped up and saw a 9 foot cobra heading towards a stack of mud bricks where they were building a new house. I ran inside, grabbed the old sawed-off 20 guage - and "pop" went the snake ;)
 
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Just something I noticed; you sure have very light skin since you left your homeland. Is that from change in climate?

I view the town on google earth, to bad that location doesn't have any detailed images. can't see the tree.

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Definitely climate change!

I was about as sun-bleached and tan back then as a kid with ancestors from the Netherlands could be :) My parents worked over there in literacy, healthcare, and community development for a church out of the US. Me and my sibs really were fortunate to have had that experience - I spent my entire teenage life out there...

When you searched on Google Earth did you see the town of Foria? I tried once to add a picture but it never should up - did you see a picture?

peace,

Matthew
 
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one more from a different kapok

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that is a cool tree! What's the wood like? Hinge good? Snap easy? I never had a chance to take a chainsaw to one :)
 
WoW!!! Can someone say NATIONAL TREASURES!! Thanks for sharing. Just amazing. I am excited for the time when I come to visit this wonderous park.
 
I couldn't find out how to put in the co-ordinates, so I got it close, then kept moving the picture until i got close to your lat and longitude from the video, then up popped a red dot with the town name, but no picture, sorry.

oh, and I was just pointing out that the villagers sure looked different then you. :) . By skin type, it sure doesn't look like you grew up there, that's all. Pretty cool experience I'm sure.
 
poet the wood is relatively light, super fast growing tree. I remember thinking though that the hinge was suprisingly strong for how light the wood is. Also, there are huge thorns on the new growth, so pretty much towards the top and ends of the limbs/trunks. They are real sharp and about an inch tall and saturate the bark.

I haven't come down from climbing one without blood on my forearms or hands, but well worth it!
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Looking up at and to the Fairchild Oak in Tomoka Park, FL. Climbed around in it today; deadwooded, inventoried associates, etc. Gorgeous tree; limbwalking it is sweet; resurrection fern like plush carpet.
 

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This is a Bebb Oak in Michigan. I posted the pictures a while ago. I think they are pretty impressive for the mitten.
 

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