This is a working station 1571 hectares and they farm Brahman cows. It’s run by a fifth generation Atkinson family. It is 2400ft above sea level on the top of the Great Dividing range. The mother of the farmer had family in Pontypridd and she was about to go and visit again.

There was a photo album of how they started the farm trying to grow peanuts, then corn, putting in the dams, all the extreme weather events they have had. You could tell it has been a very hard road to where they are now.

They have branched into camping and they do it superbly. The camp areas are all landscaped with natives. They have a café where you can order breakfast or dinner but you need to order in advance. Dinners are only Saturday, Monday and Wednesday and there is no choice. Pizzas are Saturday, Lasagne on Monday or Barramundi on Wednesday which is flown in fresh. They even make the lasagne sheets from scratch.

We were here on Friday and Saturday so booked in for the pizza evening. By 11am the pizza oven was fired up. They serve in two sittings a 5pm and 7pm. Everybody brings up their drinks and you sit on long communal tables and share pizzas. They just keep coming. There were 50 people booked in when we were there.

There is also a walk on the property to each of their dams, they have 3 in total. There are massive termite mounds some were taller than Simon.

There is also a landing strip so a few people flew in to pick up supplies have a coffee and then left again, they were doing a scenic flight of the reef and this was their coffee stop.

In their shop they have homemade sourdough bread, marmalades, relishes, smoothies, homemade ice cream and they make a mean coffee! Excellent camp but they close between end of September and April or we would stop again on the way back down from the Cape.