However, the "Nessie" photo shows tall trees right on the beach near the Norwich City as does the helicopter tour video so no reason to hack through the scaveola to the buka trees inland, we have talked about this before.
Yes, you brought this up back on June 18 and you were just as wrong then as you are now, but I was too busy preparing for Niku VII to correct you then. Apologies for allowing you to labor under your misconception for so long.
Back then you said, "At 5:33 into the helicopter tour of the island video you see Bill Carter standing in the shade of tall trees located right on the beach in about the same location where tall trees are visible in the Bevington photo."
As shown in the attached satellite photo, you were only 600 meters off.
You say, "The Nessie photo shows tall trees right on the beach near the Norwich City." No it doesn't. As shown in the attached photos, the tall trees in the Bevington photo are well inland. The aerial photo was taken on December 1, 1938 - 14 months after the Bevington photo.
Yes, there are some tall trees near the shore at Carter's location in the 2001 aerial tour video, but they were not there in 1938. Birnam Wood may have come to Dunsinane but forests on Niku don't move.
The bottom line is that, then as now, at the onshore location closest to the object in the Bevington Photo, the closest tall trees were about 100 meters inland behind a formidable maze of "ren" (Tournafortia argentia) and "mao" (Scaevola frutescens) growth.