Thread: Westies Hut,South Coast

Cheers @RUMPY for the feed back .Mid winter trip so will O/nite @ the Ytute Hut,then westward ho the following day.Thanx

Check the DOC website for walking tracks in Southland , gives you times from Wairauhiri to Waitutu to Westies , you would need a good head lamp to do it in one day in the middle of winter .
Spent years hunting around that area .

Hi guys ........ When we talk about Westies hut do mean his hut inside the cave.

Yip the late Owen West's hut

BB222...... That's great, stayed with Owen a few times when doing a couple of pushes through to Cromarty in the 90's, following the telephone line. Also there was a punga hut on the true right of Big River when you dropped down to BR ,to left where you dropped down, there were the remains of some concrete sort of building. Also remember a character looking after some tourist building went by the name of Peanut on the river that drained Lake Hauroko.