After over a decade I still feel amazed that 200ft tree, a metre across, an hours drive from a major city and in the heart of a much visited national park can go undiscovered by the world at large until only recently. When you think that man has been to the moon and back and left his footprints there, it just makes me wonder what else is here on earth thats just waiting to be discovered and what may have been destroyed by mans activities in the rain forests and wild places of mother earth. The W.P. is like no other tree I've ever seen but if I had to discribe it, I'd say it looks like a cross between a cuninghamia and a coast redwood. I would like to know more about it's natural environment ie, does it grow close to the waters edge at the bottom of these deep gorge's and what aspect does it face inrelation to the sandstone cliffs ?