You dont get service like this in the concrete hotel jungle of the Gold Coast. Greeted by 5 beautiful horses and 2 very kid friendly small dogs and a beautiful Hen. The property is 46 acres and Darren, who manages the property showed us around the house in detail explaining how everything works. We settled in and went for a cleared land bush walk to marvel at what I believe is a Monolith in the distance. Would have been an island 100's of thousand years ago. When we got back Darren had started a beautiful hardwood fire for us in the back yard amongst the fruit trees. Great bloke and top night looking at a billion more stars than you see in suburbia. Amanda has lots of herbs and veggies growing which you are allowed to use. Amanda also gave us heaps of beautiful cuttings of her favourite plants to take home. If the chickens and ducks are laying you can use them for breakfast. The fridge was stocked with milk, fresh bread and real butter. The cupboards had enough basic foods to get by with if you didn't have time to stop at the shops to feed the travel tired kids. I slept so well that when I woke in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, I walked towards my toilet and thought, that wall never used to be there. It felt like home away from home. We walked up the hill again to feel the breeze and using my Big Bertha golf club, gave the kids a golf lesson and hit some old balls off into distance safely. Amanda is conscious of environment stress and makes a great effort to minimize water and compost everything possible or feed waste to animals. Amanda is a hidden trove of talents. Artist, Musician, Gardener, animal lover and overall just one of those people the planet needs more of. Her CD is in the lounge to hear her talents and we were even given a demo of Amanda playing a string instrument that I've never heard of before. Apparently Cyndi Lauper plays it.
Great place, Great hosts. Great value for a large family and a friend or 2. We didn't want to leave and we are definitely going back.