Circuits Hut
Photograph by Olaf Moon with his son, Alex standing in the door taken in 1991.
Known as Circuit Hut, Circuitts Hut, Doosies Hut, Fells Hut, or Gulf Hut.
Location:
Circuitts is on the Tantangara Plain, a short walk north of Currango, south east of Tantangara Dam and west of Oldfields at Grid Reference 524346.
Brief History
Circuits was built in 1938 by George Circuit for the Australian Estates Pastoral Company, to support grazing. Circuit himself held the lease for many years.
Jimmy Gavel was supposed to have died in a snow drift nearby to the hut and his beard left nailed to the mantlepiece, but he later came back as a ghost to frighten his mate, Tom Shanley and collect his beard. Its now gone, so it may not be just a story!
The photo is of Alex Moon, taken in 1990 when he was a todler, but loved camping in the outdoors. The hut has since been restored and the sliver iron on the front right has been removed.
There is a ruin of a pise (compressed mud) hut nearby.
Construction
Circuits is a four room house with a verandah. It is mainly timber with weatherboards for wall covering, and wooden floors. There is some furniture and a kerosene fridge that still works. The chimney is brick. There are four windows. Separate from the main building, there is a toilet and shed.
References
Hueneke P 202-3
KHA Reference number is 1311
and the KNP POM is L.14.
A history sheet exists.
GPS: S 35.818905 E 148.688728