Taieri Recreational Tramping Club

Grahams Bush botanical  and Mount Cargill history for background information. See also Grahams Bush, Upper Junction, Brickhill Rd reports. No. 19 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Sawyers Bay – Grahams Bush. M Deuchrass. Summer.” Sawyers Bay Road 28 km from car park; Mount Cargill Road car park: 25 km. 18. 24/04/2024. Hikers. […]

Mount Cargill has three peaks (Cargill, Holmes and Zion).   In Maori legend they represent the petrified head and feet of a princess of an early Otakou tribe. The mount was however known to the Maori community as kapaka-tau-mahaka – “snaring pigeons with a string’ – and following European settlement it was given the name […]