• Only good point, it has a view. | Botany Hut, Rock and Pillar Scenic Reserve
  • A timber shed. | Botany Hut, Rock and Pillar Scenic Reserve
  • Let me out. | Botany Hut, Rock and Pillar Scenic Reserve
  • The bunks do not have mattresses. | Botany Hut, Rock and Pillar Scenic Reserve

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Botany Hut | Rock and Pillar Conservation Area

It is easy to miss this semi-decrepit old timber shed that lacks a track. Also lacks a water supply in proximity, a toilet, and much amenity at all.

Was once used as a base for scientists to study the local botany, but that must have been some decades ago. May well have last been used back then.

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category . . . shelter

hut fee . . . free

elevation . . . 1030 m

bunks . . . no mattresses on two wire bunks

built . . . 1950—60s

heating . . . none

water . . . none

toilet . . . none

facilities . . . none