Built in winter, 1957, by Jock Fisher & Merv O'Reilly, after NZFS took over wild animal control from the Dept. of Int. Affairs. It was the first NZFS B49, two-person biv built in Westland, & likely NZ. The original flat iron roof leaked & was replaced with corrugated iron. In 2003/04, DOC repiled it & in March, 2013, repainted it. At some point, DOC replaced the hold-fast tie downs. It has two short wooden sleeping platforms with mattresses on the side & end walls. Rob Brown reports it is the only remaining biv with the steep pitch roof & small window left on it's original site from that era (after which NZFS standardised the crawl in biv design). The only other steep-pitched designed biv remaining is 'Pinnacle Biv', which was moved there from the Crawford valley, & later renovated by DOC. Edit Hut