Becketts Hut, Takitimu Conservation Area

February 2017

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February 2017

The track emerges from the forest into a tussock-filled Waterloo Burn. Photo: Megan Walker
Southern tussock at its finest IF YOU HAVE a taste for tussock and classic remote huts, a jaunt to Becketts Hut in the Takitimus will be right up your alley. It’s an ideal weekend getaway if you’re in the southern reaches of the country, and will almost certainly give you a sense of solitude if […]
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