One of our favourite trees on our property are the Queensland Kauri - Agathis australis. We planted about 20 of them quite a few years back, and they are now quite large.
I still fondly remember Kauri trees in New Zealand where we grew up - there are simply huge trees in Northland (Waipoua State Forest) where individual trees even have names. Tane Mahuta is the largest and is quite awe inspiring. The NZ kauri is a different species Agathis robusta and was a sought after tree around the time of Captain Cook for ship's masts.
Yesterday we had Sulphur crested Cockatoos in the tops of the two Kauris near our driveway, I think they were eating the developing seed cones.
They seem to bite off some of the small branches as well. On the ground underneath there was quite some debris from them.
On another part of our property we have 3 Kauri trees we planted that we call the three sisters after our 3 girls.
There are some lovely street plantings of Kauri around Brisbane - Kingsford Smith drive and at Milton, near the Wesley Hospital, are two that spring to mind.
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