Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat

Finally the park is green again. It has been raining on and off since Xmas and the park looks a treat. This morning Cedar Creek started running and there is about 6 ft of water rushing through there now!!

Every year we organise several fundraisers. From the Sausage Sizzle, we donated this year a $1000 to the Monto State School and another $250 to the local wild life carer. The Anzac biscuits being sold on our park by our staff member Stuart McInnes totalled $370 for the victims of the bush fires. At the end of last financial year, we donated a certain percentage of your stay to the Imani Childrens Home in Nairobi (Kenya) to help them build a self sufficient business.

As you can see, it has been while since we added any news. Reason for that is, we had a fire on the night of 27th June 2008. It destroyed our shop, office and residence (and part of our lifes). Luckely nobody got hurt, but it has been a very big blow. It took a while to get the insurance organised and the builders in, but the office, shop and residence are now ready. We have to thank (again) the Monto community and all our friends, who kept us going. Without them, we couldn’t have made it. A special thanks to Ron and Jenni our relief managers (our Ozzie mum and dad), who came in  short after the fire and stayed for 1/2 a year to get us back on track again!  Everything is up and running again and we hope to get our wireless internet back shortly.

We are ready again to welcome you for the new busy winter season.  Thanks for all the mails/letters and support over the last half year.

To get the Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat more eco friendly we had to have more watertanks. We ordered them 9 months ago and now they finally arrived. Two 2000 gallon tanks for the shop and the Kangaroo cabin and one 5000 gallon tank for the three other cabins. Now it’s up to us to get the rebate; the Government excluded caravan parks! Very unfair, but we’ll see what we can do. Hopefully we get the wet winter they are talking about !!

We just don’t stop upgrading our park. With the help of AccommIT we now have wireless internet available.  Another service for our guests out here “in the bush”.

The second couple of cabins are ready. After another month of hard work we are very proud we finished another lot. The murals are spectacular and are also done by a local. It took Brett powter (Cania Dams caretaker) one week to get it all done. Thanks Brett you are a gifted artist.

The Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat is a 4 star establishment, part of a national chain and Dogs are WELCOME. It is situated in a valley of colourful sandstone walls and offers spacious, grassy powered and unpowered sites for caravaners and campers. A very well equipped community camp kitchen makes it easy for campers who are lightly equipped or only travelling with bare essentials. Owners Gerard and Margaret pride themselves on making sure that their park is an eco-friendly one and have made numerous improvements in this direction in the last 18months since taking it over. For me it was lovely to see the free-range chooks roaming around the park grazing on what ever they could find in the grass. At 4pm each day you can feed the parrots, this was an amazing experience as hundreds of parrots flew in to have a feed, their non-stop chatter makes your ears ring.
Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat is relaxing and peaceful, there are hammocks hung throughout the park just waiting for you to take an afternoon ceiester or just kick back and read a book. If you have your dog with you, as I did, you will be happy to know there is a large dog walking area and plenty of shade. The tourist retreat is bordering the National Park and 6 of 7 walking tracks in the National Park leave from the front gate.

Comment by Lisa and Darin

We finally finished the first unit. We have upgraded it to a fully self containable cabin. The new cabin is a 1 bedroom cabin and can sleep up to 5 persons (double or queen bed, single bunkbeds and sleeping sofa) and have a kitchen, ensuite, tv, sofa and reverse cycle A/C. The cabins still have a very spacious verandah, so you can enjoy the beautiful view on the cliffs.

If you want to make a booking you can now call us on our new freecall number !!!!!

The number is 1 800 44 60 10

After being on the park for 1 year, we recently had our first long break. Ron & Jenni Bednal came in and looked after the park. They did a very good job and we are very grateful to have met them. Ron & Jenni will be back on our park in the future.

Thanks Ron & Jenni!