Tin Drovers Hut fauna Photographed 2012

Photographed 2012

A cast iron and timber bench sits in uncut grass at Queen Victoria Sanitorium

photographed in 2015 before the building was demolished

Teamsters carting supplies to the run sheltered here while waiting on the wool clip

Tin Drovers Hut fauna Photographed 2012A corrugated iron drovers' hut stands in open, dry country, its walls deep with rust from decades of exposure. Structures like this were built to shelter drovers moving stock across the Monaro and surrounding plains, simple single room shelters against the elements. The research file notes over 200 historic huts survive across the Australian Alps national parks; many more, unprotected, remain on private pastoral land. Part of the A Place to Call Home