check out this screen shot:

http://www.boomspeed.com/appleman10/FarCry0000.jpg

as I approach the trees more and more will appear. As you can see the top of one of the trees on the island is visiable because it is within a certian range of me.

Specs:

Athlon T-Bird 1.3ghz
Geforce4 Ti 4200
512 pc133 ram
all latest drivers and patches