Distance: 1.4 km (0.5 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 363m to 445m. Gain: 106m. Loss: 24m . Gradient: 5 deg (Flat)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

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

Flat (difficulty: 1/5)
Flat

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

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 Tawa Hut the track heads upriver on forested flats, passing the signposted Makakoere turnoff after 500m. Now a benched track, it swings east and starts to sidle the valleyside as the valley narrows, reaching the turnoff to Kahunui 800m later.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

Below the track junction, the track continues t siudle the valleyside until it broadens at the confluence with the Makakoere. Here it drops to flats on the valleyfloor - a signpost marking the turnoff to Makakoere Stream and hut.

Tawa Hut sits 500m beyond on gently sloping grassy flats.