ワラビーコテージ-美しい景色を望む穏やかなブルニー島の隠れ家

I absolutely fell in love with Bruny Island from that first weekend. But while most visitors head straight for Adventure Bay, I wanted to be in the quieter end of the less visited North Island. It is just bliss to turn off the main road onto the gravel track and head up to Dennes Point. And this little cottage is set back from the beach up in a secluded gully. Nobody looks up here - I painted the rails on the deck on a very hot day wearing very little - and I don't think anybody saw me! I can sit on the deck with a glass of wine, watching the sun go down over Sleeping Beauty and listening to the waves breaking on the beach - and suddenly the world doesn't seem such a bad place!

When I first saw the cottage, it was ... not a very attractive prospect. It smelt of a leaking toilet, there was a hole in the roof and quoll poo in the kitchen! Everything need to be ripped out - with one exception: the wonderful stained-glass panel of a 'wallaby in a scout's uniform' in the front door! That's why I have called it Wallaby Cottage. (Yes, I know, it's actually a pademelon, but Pademelon Cottage is a bit of a mouthful! And there is of course more than one resident wallaby around the block...) There was no deck originally - but a view like that demanded one. And when you can wake up and see the gulls flying across the sea without even getting out of bed, the bedroom had to have a big window! Better still, some French doors onto another totally private. sheltered deck just outside it. I loved designing it - and hope you love the place as much as I do!