It was a case of one Kiwi giant meeting another when basketball star Steven Adams visited Waipoua Forest this week.
At 2.13m (7 ft) tall, Rotorua-born Adams is used to towering over other people - but even the star centre for the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team felt small when confronted by 51m-tall Tane Mahuta, New Zealand's largest kauri.
Adams was in Northland this week on a tiki tour organised by NZ Maori Tourism which started on Tuesday with a welcome at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.
On Wednesday the keen fisherman spent the day on the water of the Bay of Islands with team-mate Andre Roberson, assistant coach Andrew Johns and their entourage. On Thursday they headed west to the Hokianga for some down time and a few hoops in the grounds of Omapere's Copthorne Hotel.
That was followed by a welcome from Snow Tane of Te Roroa and a forest walk with acclaimed Maori tourism company Footprints Waipoua, their guides providing information, performing song and chants and playing the koauau (flute) along the way.