This was a photo I made last year hiking on a track above the Fox Glacier in Westland National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand. From the coastal plain looking up toward the green hillsides on both sides of the Fox Glacier you wouldn't even guess at the complexity that lies under the forest canopy.
The forest around the Fox Glacier is a classic example of a temperate rain forest.The Fox Glacier region receives 4.7 Meters (185 inches) of rain a year! Where I was living in Colorado rainfall is measured in inches and 13 inches is an average rainfall in a year. For comparison in Sydney the average rain fall is 1.19 meters ( 47 inches) a year and in Seattle the average rainfall is 1.09 meters (43 inches) per year.
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