Walk the tracks
Farm tracks run from the cottage down to the creek and back up along the ridge. About 40 minutes at an easy pace. Wear closed shoes.
A working farm in the Wallamba Valley
Baroona is a rural property in the river flats and low hills behind Nabiac. The cottage sits on it, but the farm keeps doing what it has always done — grass grows, cattle move through the paddocks, and the day starts early.
The dairy years
This valley was dairy country for well over a century. Small family farms ran along the Wallamba River, milk went to the local factory, and the shape of the district — the sheds, the fences, the tracks between paddocks — came out of that work.
Baroona was part of it. The old dairy infrastructure is still standing and still visible from the cottage. Deregulation in 2000 closed most of the small dairies around here, and the property now runs beef cattle instead, but the bones of the dairy remain.
The setting
The land runs from open grazing country down to creek flats lined with old gums. Fog settles in the low ground on winter mornings and burns off by nine. In the evening you get the full sky — no streetlights, no traffic noise, just the odd ute on the road.
Birdlife is constant: kookaburras, magpies, king parrots, wedge-tailed eagles over the ridge. Kangaroos come out onto the flats at dusk.
What guests can do on the farm
Watch the cattle
Stock move between paddocks most days. You're welcome to watch from the fence line — just don't go into a paddock with cattle in it.
Sit by the fire
The firepit is set up outside the cottage with wood supplied through the cooler months.
Stargaze
There's no light spill out here. On a clear night the Milky Way is plain to see from the deck.
Birdwatch
Bring binoculars. The creek line and the tree belts along the boundary are the best spots, early morning.
Do very little
Most guests come for two or three nights and spend a good part of it on the deck. That's the point.
A working farm has machinery, electric fences and stock moving around. Stay on the marked tracks, keep clear of the sheds and yards, and ask us if you're unsure about anything.
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