Stones Outstation
Photographs courtesy of Luke Steenhuis of ABC Maps, Copyright © 2005.
Known as Stones Hut or Outstation
Located at Lake Eildon near to the northern boundary of the Park. Located on the north side of Station Creek just where the creek enters lake Eildon.
On the "Alexandra" map its at about GR E972 N884. There is a four kilometre walk to the hut.
History
This hut was built in about 1900 in a solid style of vertical timber slabs. The hut and nearby stockyard ruins were originally built as an outstation for the Stone family, who owned the land in the mid-to-late 1800s. It served as a remote resting post and shelter for cattlemen working far from the main family homestead.
There is a Lake Eildon Connection: The hut is a remnant of the era before the Goulburn River valley was flooded to create the Eildon Weir and later the expanded Lake Eildon. It now sits just 100 meters above the lake's high-water mark in Stones Bay, aslo known as Aird Inlet.
Construction
Vertical timber slabs.
References
Day Walks Victoria - John ChapmanRooftop Maps - Marysville Lake Eildon Adventure Map
GPS Location: - No reliable GPS position is recorded.