Jo’s place is a lovely, lovely space in a perfect location. It’s a fantastic retreat for getting away from it all, but only 5 minutes’ drive from town.
My partner and I stayed 4 nights for a trip involving family visits in the region and some work things. It was great to have the cabin as a base and also to get away TO, when we’d had enough of people, chatter, noise and busy-ness.
We fell asleep at night to the lovely frog chorus, and woke to beautiful mornings with lots of different birds. The view across the valley fills the giant windows, and the huge outdoor deck area is perfect.
There’s a spacious kitchen with gourmet stove and oven, full size fridge, and an automatic espresso machine that grinds the beans too. The space is new, luxurious and spotless. The landscaping outside has been created with lovely details such as rocks and ferns.
The cabin has excellent cross ventilation because of all the windows, so you can choose to just have a cool breeze through the place. Up on the hill the breezes are lovely, and would be much cooler than in the centre of town. Or you can use the ceiling fans and air conditioning. All the windows and sliding doors have flyscreens, so mosquitoes are not a problem.
We loved the convenience of being close enough to civilisation, but still out on the edge of town with views, trees, garden, wildlife etc.
The shire is fixing the road that other reviewers have mentioned, so it was no problem at all driving up to the property in our rental car.