Okui hut October 1977
Te Urewera
Here is a not very good photo of the hut which isn't illustrated here at all currently. I don't remember much about this hut except for the big open fire, the chimney of which we smoked trout in. The pic shows Grant Butler breaking up a dead tree head for firewood.
We stayed two nights while doing vegetation survey work in the surrounding bush. From memory a lot of the walking wasn't that good with us commonly passing through areas of dense peppertree, stinging nettle & toetoe (giant cutty grass) There were a few small stands of impressive podocarps encountered including one that contained one of the largest diameter totaras I've ever seen.
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Booty Okui hut still there but is really only basic shelter. No water at the hut as plumbing has been stolen and only a couple of mattresses as of December 2011. Common plight of huts close to vehicle access.
30 November 2012
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pmcke Not quite sure if Okui Hut is still there, have been meaning to check it out for a while now. Last time I saw it, a couple of years ago, it was a pretty bleak sort of hut and didn't even have a broom. We camped outside. I don't recall it looking like this though so has probably changed over the years. There is a good trip from here over to Mangapouri Hut and then down the Horomanga. The track over to Mangapouri was a bit over growen but passable.
21 June 2011
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