| Just 50 minutes before, leaving the bustling | | | | these guest Quarters are visually |
| tourism hub of Cairns - blue ocean on one | | | | spectacular, boasting a large deck for the |
| side and cool rainforest clad mountains on | | | | ultimate enjoyment of the outback views.Early |
| the other - I had no idea my world as I knew | | | | morning. The smell of dew on the grass. A |
| it was soon going to blend beautifully with | | | | stunning breakfast already cooked to order |
| 35,000 head of prized Brahman cattle and 1.5 | | | | and finished. We drive half an hour to Mouth |
| million acres of dust.Wrotham Park is | | | | Organ Yard to get a glimpse into the |
| described as a marriage between a luxurious, | | | | lifestyle on a remote Australian cattle |
| stylish resort and the dusty reality of a | | | | station. A group of outback stockmen arrive |
| working cattle station. The first part of | | | | and their job today is to separate the |
| this I loved the sound of, the second part I | | | | weaners from the rest of the herd. It's a |
| wasn't so sure about.I knew my first reaction | | | | hard, sweaty job - and a dangerous one. Not |
| was going to be to hide, to stay within my | | | | every animal co-operates - this is no |
| comfort zone - but the neatly rolled, chilled | | | | guaranteed "show" for tourists. Lodge |
| and fragrant hand towel offered to me by the | | | | visitors are invited to watch, but there is |
| driver when I stepped from the plane gave me | | | | no scheduled performance.That evening, lying |
| Dutch courage and I started to wonder why it | | | | on one of the daybeds near the pool, the sun |
| took so long for someone to come up with an | | | | has already dipped below the horizon. There |
| idea like this. I felt a bit like the girl | | | | is a smell of a distant bushfire and |
| that Paul Hogan married in Crocodile Dundee.A | | | | somewhere a kookaburra starts the last laugh |
| few minutes later and the 4WD stopped in | | | | of the day. This is the moment to close your |
| front of the Homestead - very Queensland, | | | | eyes, smell, listen, smile - redo the |
| very Outback and very inviting. The beautiful | | | | lipstick - understand and appreciate.(Wrotham |
| lounge chairs, the airconditioned bar and | | | | Park Lodge - 300km West of Cairns, Queensland |
| sitting room are designed to make you feel | | | | - caters to a maximum of 20 guests, providing |
| like you're in your own home. You are | | | | an unparalleled outback experience that |
| encouraged to come and go as you please. | | | | brings together wilderness, wildlife and a |
| Wrothank Park has been carefully created to | | | | hint of luxury. If your adventurous streak is |
| fit perfectly into Far North Queensland's | | | | crying out to you but you cant bear to leave |
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