"COONDOO SPRINGS" is a rare jewel on rich escarpment country just north of Kin Kin village near the entrance to historic Harry's Hut, world renowned everglades on the upper Noosa River and myriad other natural wonders inside Noosa National Park and its biosphere reserve.
This 69.4ha (171 acres) on the doorstep of the Noosa Hinterland extends to the top of Mt Coondoo (289m) with views from Rainbow Beach to Noosa Heads to the east and the Great Dividing Range and Mt Wolvi to the west.
Over the years, Coondoo Springs has been a dairy farm, commercial orchard and cattle-grazing enterprise with the capacity to run 70 breeders comfortably. The option to run cattle remains with stock-handling infrastructure still in place. More recently, it has operated as a haven for campers since the retirement of the cattle herd in 2019.
There is approx. 50 ha (125 acres) of flat to undulating land, which is a mix of sandy loam and rich black basalt soils suitable for cropping and/or grazing, with the remainder of the property running up to the summit of Mount Coondoo and along its spine for more than 600m. The sandy loam and black basalt soils support a thick coverage of improved pastures, including native and introduced grass species and a vigorous nitrogen-enriching legume that covers the mountain.
The three-bedroom homestead, while requiring some modernisation, features locally grown and milled hardwood floorboards throughout. Its construction of timber frame and chamfer board rests on concrete stumps and under a galvanised iron roof in the midst of a luxuriant home-stead garden with rare orchids and bromeliads, citrus, dragon fruit and other fruit bearing plants, a large vegetable garden and magnificent mature shade trees. The house sits
on a rise well back from the front gate and road, preserving the peace and quiet of Wolvi and Coondoo creeks where they rise on Mt Coondoo, seeping through private tracts of rainforest in a chain of ponds.
The home is serviced by rainwater tanks, and there are five dams, three of which are spring-fed, the largest equipped with pump. Average annual rainfall is 600mm (2010-2020). A 10m x 9m steel-framed shed houses a workshop, farm machinery and any extra vehicles.
This property is 10 minutes' drive from Kin Kin with its gourmet café, general store, post office, school, hotel, sawmill and other facilities, 25 minutes from Tewantin, 30 minutes from Gympie, 60 minutes from Sunshine Coast airport and 2 hours from Brisbane international airport.
Features include:
• 69.4ha (172 acres): 50ha cleared cattle and/or horse country in 6 paddocks
• suitable for cropping, macadamia and fruit trees
• fully fenced with some electrification; five dams, three spring-fed
• large well-built 3 bed, 1 bathroom homestead built in 1950
• carport and 10m x 6m steel framed shed; 3 phase power
• established garden of fruit trees, ornamentals and natives
• close to Noosa, Rainbow Beach, Gympie, Pomona and Kin Kin.
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