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WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING COUPLES PRESENTLY.
CURRENT VACANCY:
*NOW to 5 November 2019 for a couple
* 7 January 2020 onwards (minimum 1 month stay) for a couple
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We live near Sydney, on a 40 acre property surrounded by kangaroos, wombats and nature. We have been Workaway Hosts for many years, and enjoy hosting people from various countries.
We are a couple in our 30's who work from home, surrounded by our dog family. James loves cooking, playing tennis, being active and socialising. While Lauren enjoys gardening, reading, travelling, watching documentaries, and her passion is breeding dogs (Finnish Lapphunds).
We enjoy meeting people travelling from other countries, and love the cultural exchange.
We're happy to pick you up from the local train station (10 minutes away), and drop you off upon departure. It's very easy to get to us by train from Sydney. There's plenty of space for parking if you have your own car or van.
Gardening
General Maintenance
Farmstay
Help with Eco project
Help in the house
This is a wonderful experience for someone who loves nature, veggie gardens and dogs.
We do chat to Workawayers, but we are not a host that spends lots of time with you. So we also suit people who enjoy their own space and privacy.
The local area has many wonderful things to explore, including natural swimming holes, a dingo sanctuary, wineries, cafes, hikes.
The help we require includes:
Gardening
- Tending to vegetable garden and fruit trees
- Weeding
- General gardening
Housekeeping:
- Sweeping and mopping floor
- Washing and ironing clothes and linen
- General cleaning
If you have particular skills, let us know! Whether you're confident painting, can build fences, great with roses, or growing veggies- let us know :)
TASKS: We discuss which areas you have experience in or are interested in learning and helping with.
We do 5 days on, 2 days off. Each of the 'work' days is for 5 hours, generally starting at 8 or 9am.
English
Our beautiful property is on 40 acres, surrounded by beautiful Australian bushland in a private oasis. Seperate from the main house, is a 3 bedroom cottage which will be your home. The cottage features three seperate bedrooms, fully furnished, a spacious kitchen, bathroom with shower and bath, laundry and living/lounge area.
The cottage has all of the comforts of home, including:
- Washing machine
- Fridge
- Cooking equipment and oven
- Microwave
- Large screen TV
- Netflix
- Internet
- Apple Mac desktop computer
- All furniture
- Fireplace
Your room has a queen sized bed, towels, sheets, blankets, wardrobe, TV.
You'll have privacy from us in your cottage. The cottage is 200 metres from the main house, with its own yard and gardens. There is another person who permanently lives in the cottage, who also assists on the property.
The property features a pool, spa and tennis court as well as beautiful grassed areas for lazing, picnics or cuddles with our dogs. We have a vegetable garden with fresh fruits and vegetables which you can freely access.
You'll also have:
- Free use of a great little Honda Civic sedan, to drive locally so you can get to the train station and go out and do fun local things on days off. You'll just need to cover the cost for petrol. We pay for insurance.
- Use of push bikes
- Use of a 2 person kayak
- All food- we eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and very little processed foods. We don't supply meat or fish.
You'll see local kangaroos hop through our property daily. And an abundance of birds and other wildlife.
Our property receives fine mobile phone reception. And you have unlimited internet in your cottage.
Vegetarians and vegans welcome.
No smoking please.
We generally have 1 couple at a time in the cottage, occasionally two. Along with a single person who purely assists with the dogs. So you have a lot of privacy.
You could never get bored here. There are great walking trails, shopping centres are 10 minutes away as is the train station so it's easy to get into Sydney. Sydney is an amazing city, it’s so beautiful and there’s so much to see and do. The beach is an hour away from our place.
Many of our Workawayers save up their days off and go away for 4 days in a row to places like the Blue Mountains, Hunter Valley, Canberra and even New Zealand! It’s easy to be based at our place and feel like you’re right in the middle of the Australian bush, but still get to see a huge amount of Australia as we are so close to Sydney and public transport.
Attractions nearby:
Mermaid Pools - 20 minutes
Thirlmere Rail Museum - 10 minutes
Wirrimbirra Wildlife Sanctuary - 12 minutes
Bargo Dingo sanctuary - 12 minutes
Tahmoor train station - 10 minutes
The main village of Tahmoor is 10 minutes by car or 27 minutes by bike. Tahmoor has supermarkets, alcohol shops, pizza and chicken shops, cafes, restaurants etc.
Attractions nearby:
Mermaid Pools - 20 minutes
Thirlmere Rail Museum - 10 minutes
Wirrimbirra Wildlife Sanctuary - 12 minutes
Bargo Dingo sanctuary - 12 minutes
Tahmoor train station - 10 minutes
More information on the area search for 'southern highlands NSW' and 'Visit Wollongong'
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Two
Maximum 25 hours / week
