Book Direct with the Owner at Wattle Downs Sheep Station Farm Stay in The Gums with Holiday Cairns for all your restaurant and entertainment needs.
Enjoy a fabulous experience in the heart of the Australian bush on this beautiful working Stud Merino sheep station with beef cattle, horses, grain farming and abundant wildlife and nature. Generations of genuine Australian family hospitality welcome you to a gracious homestead and elegant garden cottages. Join your hosts to experience the fun and adventure of daily farm life, learn about running a sheep station or discover the family’s pioneer history since 1913. Wattle Downs is a registered 'Land for Wildlife Property' and offers a huge variety of hosted and free time activities for all ages to enjoy. Activities include feeding animals, gathering eggs, riding ponies and pushbikes along bush tracks, seasonal swimming with tyre tubes, stock work (cattle and sheep), bushwalks, bird watching, picnics, barbecues, a wonderful sanctuary, working sheepdogs, fishing, yabbying, four wheel drive property tours, children's activities that are purpose built for small hands, take the raft to pirate island or have a campout in Captain's Cabin, traditional back yard cricket, seasonal shearing, occasional bullock wagon rides and heaps more.
