We found this little jewel of a cottage, 5 minutes from Airlie Beach, and 40 mins from Proserpine Airport. It is a lovely quiet place nested in a little pocket surrounded by gardens and a little remnant of rainforest. It belongs to a lovely Lady who gave us excellent tips to make the most of our stay, and who greeted us with a lovely little note (see above), showing her neat writing and a beautiful painting of Cane Cutters Cottage. She stroke me as a sharp business woman and a very caring person at the same time; very inspiring in her manners, a nice meeting.
Despite a meticulous cottage presentation, there was a message written by hand with a chalk on a small notes blackboard saying: 'All you need is Love, and a drawing of a flower'.
We were equipped with indispensable eggs weigher, brass turtle candle holder on the rear deck, and Marsh Flies catcher... after all, it is the tropics, and you are never alone! The beds were dressed with spotless cotton white linen, and the windows were dressed with old European Settlers traditional laces.
The rear deck was delightfully relaxing, as it should in Queensland ...
In the morning, we were greeted by wallabies hoping around, a tiny but distinctively long beak sunbird to poach nectar off the gigantic ginger plants on the rear deck. At night, it was time to go Tree Frog Hunting with the kids around the water tank. We even spotted a dingo one morning.
The cottage had wan some tourism awards for the beautiful restauration work inside. Despite its very compact size, it had belonged to a family of 7 (2 adults and 5 children), and the father had been a Sugar Cane Cutter.
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| Nice place for a Cup of Tea |
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| Tree Frog |
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| My favourite part of the house |
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| Kangaroos in the driveway |
There is a lovely place to swim, Cedar Creek Falls, a bit further after passing Lychees and Sugar Canes plantations along richly soiled red earth roads ... and spotting the occasional camel grazing with the cows in the fields.
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| Cedar Creek Falls Swimming Hole |
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| Odd Camel grazing with the cows |
