Images courtesy of Terry Reid.

Known as Fraser Creek Hut or the Fraser Creek Scout Hut

Located near Dundas on the west coast of Tasmania.

History

Fraser Creek Hut was built around 1930 by R.J. Howard from Zeehan. He had taken over a logging team from the Dunkley Brothers at the time, so the hut was used by loggers who were using the nearby Confidence Saddle Tram for pining operations. Later, it was used by a variety of prospectors and miners through the 1940s and 1950s, including the redoubtable miner Bill Higgons who lived in the hut with two workers into the 1950s.

Steve Berrigan (a forester that I worked with) rediscovered the hut in the 1970s and undertook some initial work on it to keep it upright. He informed Terry Reid and Roger Nichols who were both Scout leaders on the west coast, and suggested it might become a good Scout project. It was renovated by them from 1979 through the early 1980s and is registered with the Scout Association to this day.

Caretakers Terry Reid and Scouts.