Hydro Hut
Images courtesy of Clinton and R. Norton
Known as Hydro Hut or Hydrographers Hut.
Location
Hydrographers Hut, east of Lake Ellen in the Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park.
It is at grid reference 182 778. which is about 3 km east of Lake Ellen, on the edge of the Forth River escarpment.
History
It is the last surviving HEC Hydrographers Hut in Tasmanian National Parks. Despite being painted in camouflage patterns, it sticks out like a sore thumb from some angles.
It was built by the Hydro Electric Commission many years ago to record precipitation, but this work is no longer required, so it is now under the control of the Parks and Wildlife Service. It is aparently in reasonble order and would shelter say 6 people,
Another one at Lake Bill burnt down in a bushfire that started near Basil Steers' old hut at the start of the track into Lees Paddocks.
Caretakers - NPWS
References
John Cannon
Mike Nash