Callery River

All the larger glaciers except those up the Rakaia River have now been mapped and explored.

I know from personal experience every one of importance in the central portion of the Southern Alps, with the exception of the Spencer up the Callery River.

But many points of the greatest interest have still to be settled concerning their movement, advance or retreat, and also respecting the positions and effect of the large ancient glaciers on the formation of the ranges and valleys.

End of preface and chapter one.

The homestead is only a small house, but it is surrounded by a few acres of cleared land laid down in grass, and forms a pleasing contrast to the sombre-coloured bush and hills behind.

Crossing the Totara River, the track continues for two miles to the Waiho River, where some four or five parties are gold-digging and have their huts, one of them, Mr. Jim Nesbit, having been there for over twenty years.

His hut is on the north side of the river, just below where the left-hand branch, or Callery River, joins the Glacier Branch, or Waiho.

From Nesbit's hut a small foot-track runs along the bank of the former river for half a mile to a wire suspension foot-bridge, which spans the stream some fifty feet above the water at the mouth of a magnificent gorge.