Comments on: Turning Back Time… http://syridian.id.au/archives/994 A Personal website for the life and times of a strange individual. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: celsa http://syridian.id.au/archives/994/comment-page-1#comment-909 celsa Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:14:06 +0000 http://syridian.id.au/?p=994#comment-909 My fantasy model involves about 500 acres of high rainfall beef/dairy country. A working beef property with permanent water and enough variety of terrain to provide three or more camping environments with different pros and cons. A competent farm manager would get the main residence on the property, which would incidentally provide security for the property. Permanent structures or the basis thereof would be robust enough to withstand having the cattle scratch themselves on them. Areas to be camped in would have cattle taken off them for a suitable period beforehand to avoid wet manure. On site storage would be available in sheds near to the residence. A second residence (move in a weatherboard house) or permanent cabin style accommodation (in a floored shed, even) would be available for people to stay in while working on the event sites or in the case that a hurricane blows an event to kingdom come. Long term plans for the property would have to be based around financial viability. If the camping ventures are more profitable, sink more into developing that side of things. If that is not profitable, intensify the farming and just use the site for occasional use by select groups, maybe those who have a vested interest. Odds are that if neither the camping or farming can keep the property viable, the farm will have to be sold -- as a farm. Meanwhile, have you seen: http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/kryal-castle-up-for-sale-at-private-auction/1885995.aspx ? Kryal Castle is up for auction *aaaaagain* They want ten million for it. Ha! I bet it will be passed in *aaaaagain*. My fantasy model involves about 500 acres of high rainfall beef/dairy country. A working beef property with permanent water and enough variety of terrain to provide three or more camping environments with different pros and cons. A competent farm manager would get the main residence on the property, which would incidentally provide security for the property.

Permanent structures or the basis thereof would be robust enough to withstand having the cattle scratch themselves on them. Areas to be camped in would have cattle taken off them for a suitable period beforehand to avoid wet manure. On site storage would be available in sheds near to the residence. A second residence (move in a weatherboard house) or permanent cabin style accommodation (in a floored shed, even) would be available for people to stay in while working on the event sites or in the case that a hurricane blows an event to kingdom come.

Long term plans for the property would have to be based around financial viability. If the camping ventures are more profitable, sink more into developing that side of things. If that is not profitable, intensify the farming and just use the site for occasional use by select groups, maybe those who have a vested interest. Odds are that if neither the camping or farming can keep the property viable, the farm will have to be sold — as a farm.

Meanwhile, have you seen: http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/kryal-castle-up-for-sale-at-private-auction/1885995.aspx ?

Kryal Castle is up for auction *aaaaagain* They want ten million for it. Ha! I bet it will be passed in *aaaaagain*.

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