Through the Homer Tunnel
HE walk through the tunnel was one of the highlights of my recent trip-that is, if you can call the blackout of a tunnel a highlight! When I tramped up to the Homer Hut in 1936, the new road was finished only as far as Marion Camp, six or seven miles distant, under the shadow of majestic Mount Marion. This time, I went to the very foot of the Homer Saddle, four thousand feet high, in a motor bus; unfortunately we couldn’t get a true idea of the grandeur of the scenery, for we landed there in the thick of a snow storm. It was bitterly cold when the snow turned to sleety rain, and it seemed at first as though we’d have to stumble through the pitchy darkness of the tunnel by torchlight — not a very thrilling prospect-but after a while our cheery guide switched on the lights, and we got through in fine style, with the water rushing over our shoes, and icy cold winds whistling down our necks as we reached a very draughty doorway halfway through. Drilling and blasting are still going on in the tunnel, but only a few chains on the Homer side of the tunnel have been completed to full width and height, and a great. many more tons of solid granite rock will have to come crashing down before motor cars will be able to pass through to Milford.-("Southland Again," by Elsie K. Morton, 2YA, July 2.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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249Through the Homer Tunnel New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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