Carneys Bivvies | Te Kahui Kaupeka Conservation Park
The two bivvies were helicoptered in at different times. One is fitted out with two mattresses in bunks, a stainless-steel-topped bench, but no fire. This one has the hut book. The other is more of a low shed with a sleeping platform at the midpoint and little else. Not even a mattress.
Visited by occasional thar hunters and a sprinkling of hut baggers who like the idea of the two-for-one deal.
The route up Carneys Creek is straightforward when the flow is low, with no climbs around bluffs involved. Plenty of gravel has filled the lower valley, which makes the for fast travel, but the rocks are more prominent and lumpy as the river gets closer to the two bivvies.
The mountainous backdrop is impressive.
category . . . basic hut
hut fee . . . free
booking . . . not required
elevation . . . 1010 m
bunks . . . 2 mattresses, on bunks
built . . . 1964
heating . . . none
water . . . from Carneys Creek, 50 m
toilet . . . none seen
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