Careys Creek, known in Māori as Whaitiripaku and Waihema,[1] is a small river in Otago, New Zealand, which flows from the Silverpeaks into Blueskin Bay at Evansdale.

The native bush was separated from the pine plantation during the Rogernomics privatisation of the New Zealand Forest Service to become the Careys Creek Conservation Area managed by DOC.

Now this area is reverting to native bush through a succession of rank pasture grasses, brooms, willows and manuka.

The Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, during Truby King's period of management, built a water supply pipeline from a dam at the head of the valley, near Semple Road.

Honeycomb Ridge Track branches off further up the valley and heads up steep climbs to emerge at a parking area on Mountain Road.