Distance: 3.1 km (1.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 70m to 119m. Gain: 41m. Loss: 89m . Gradient: 2 deg (Flat)
Skills:

Tramping track (4/9)
Cut, marked tramping track: natural, rough ground surface

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy-moderate (difficulty: 2/5)
Tussock / river-gravel / open bush / cut track

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From Blowfly hut, the track crosses the Moeraki River on a swingbridge just downriver, and climbs slightly to join the main Moaraki Valley track. This sidles downriver on broad terraces, crossing numerous sidestreams. Part of the route is on the old roadbed, but it is so eroded and / or boggy that it is now little more than a boggy, marked tramping track.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the roadend, the marked tramping track heads upriver on broad, boggy terraces. After a couple of kilometers a signposted track junction marks the turnoff to Blowfly Hut. The hut is a couple of hundred meters upriver on the opposite bank, the river crossed by a swingbridge.