The kitchen and living room at The Granary on Firebreak Farm.
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If you like the idea of a private plunge pool, mountain views and a glass of local verdelho, it’s time to start planning your Firebreak Farm escape.
The kitchen and living room at The Granary on Firebreak Farm.
A wood-fired hot tub becomes a cooling plunge pool in summer.
Regenerative cattle farmers Ace and Kylea Hodgkinson-Jones have turned a 100-year-old granary on their South Burnett property into a secluded cabin. It’s one of two farm stays on the 60-hectare Firebreak Farm, which lies in the foothills of south-east Queensland’s Bunya Mountains, about 100 kilometres north of Toowoomba.
Exposed wooden beams and reclaimed materials nod to The Granary’s past — but the wood-fired hot tub is a modern touch. When the weather is warm, it makes for a perfect plunge pool (best enjoyed with a glass of verdelho, a specialty of the nearby South Burnett wineries).
The second cabin at Firebreak, The Quarters, features an outdoor tub.
Catch the evening breeze from your king-size bed.
If hiking is more your speed, there’s plenty of that on offer, too. Take a look at the walking tracks in the Bunya Mountains National Park; the four-kilometre Scenic Circuit is dotted with bunya pines, waterfalls and rock pools. Or, for a bracing swim, head to Maidenwell, a five-minute drive from Firebreak Farm, where the spring-fed Coomba Falls waterhole is icy-cold year-round.
When the day is done (and your pre-arranged food hamper has been devoured), there’s a king-size bed to retreat to, complete with flax-linen sheets and the kind of quiet you only get when your fellow guests are of the bovine variety.
For more information about The Granary and The Quarters at Firebreak Farm, visit the website.
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