The Chasm car park
Trailhead for a short rainforest walk to a river roaring through water-sculpted rock basins.
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About this audio guide
This guide to The Chasm on the Milford Road, near Queenstown, follows William Homer, an explorer who stood on a mountain saddle above the Cleddau valley in January eighteen eighty-nine with his companion George Barber, and the idea he had there. It reaches into the Depression-era camps where men chipped at granite by hand. Best heard at the river's edge, looking at the stone the Cleddau has carved.
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