Distance: 6.5 km (2.5 DOC hours) - Tramping track - Easy-moderate terrain
Altitude: 118m to 216m. Gain: 26m. Loss: 117m . Gradient: 1 deg (Flat)
Skills: - Streams (2/6)

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

Streams (difficulty: 2/6)
Small streams, danger only in extreme weather

Unknown (difficulty: 0/7)
Not specified

From Horseshoe Flats hut, the track downriver starts as a roughly poled route over tussock and flax flats and down the riverbank. Later it becomes a marked tramping track through the bush - easily followed but boggu in places. A signposted junction 200m downriver of Blowfly Hut leads to the hut via the swingbridge, or you can drop and ford the river at the hut if you prefer.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From Blowfly Hut, return to the north bank of the river, wither by the swingbridge 200m downstream, or by wading the blue pools below the hut.

Once on the main track on the north bank of the Moeraki, follow the track upriver. The track is well marked and cut (2011) meandering through marshy flats in bush or flax, or teetering along the crumbling riverbank.

The river is slow and deep, and should you wish to cross you'd either have to swim or pick one of the few shallows.