Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat

We are very proud of the new murals on the cabins. What a talent!
Thanks a million, Jen!!

The Opera: “The marriage of Figaro” (sung in English) will be performed at Cania Dam on Sunday, 8 May 2011 at 2.00 pm. There are still tickets for the performance available @ $55.00. For enquiries please call 0459 954 644

Boatramp Cania Dam January 2011

Since December 2010 Cania Dam is @ 100% +. That hasn’t happened since it was built. Quite a sight it is.

Cania Dam @ 100% +

All this beautifull rain and Cania Dam is still filling up. This picture was taken on Sunday 14 March 2010 when the Dam was @ 35%.

Cania Dam @ 35%

Just finished upgrading our amenities. Thanks Jim & Graham on a job well done!! It looks great.

upgrade of the amenities @ 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”.