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Dates
  • 31 Mar 2025* - 30 Jun 2025* (*Approx)
  • 3 months 1 week
What we need
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  • Extensive
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We need a house sitter

Northern - Cairns

Penny

Can you picture waking up each morning to this view from your caravan, motorhome or big rig?

We are looking for a retired couple with their own caravan/motorhome to park up on our 2 acre picturesque lakeside property whilst we are away on holidays. We are located on the beautiful Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns in Far North Queensland. Our home is not part of the sit nor do we have any pets, so apart from the yard responsibilities, your time is your own to explore the region.

Lake Tinaroo is located approximately 10 minutes’ drive to Atherton, the commercial hub of the Tablelands where you will find supermarkets, restaurants/cafes, etc., and just 3km away is Kairi, with its school, hotel, and Store a combined fuel/post office/take away/small grocery. You are a 1 hour drive away from the city of Cairns - the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree.

The stuff you will be required to do:

Mowing: straight forward ride-on work with no obstacles using our zero-turn for the 1.5 acre back yard (your lake view!) and using the motor mower and whipper snipper for the other grassed areas including our recently turfed front yard;

Weeding and maintenance of our garden (newly established with automatic watering system) it's mulched and it's low maintenance;

Ensuring our automatic watering systems are operational during any dry weather periods;

Hand watering any established plants not on reticulated systems, should there be no rainfall.

The skills and competencies you will possess:

Love of gardening and pride in lawn maintenance;

Mechanical aptitude - operate a zero-turn ride-on, and say for those jobs that arise like the removal of dirt from the undercarriage of the ride-on after use (from those pesky little funnel ant nests);

Be physically fit to push a motor mower around on slight embankment and the other yard areas including turfed lawn areas (say ¼ acre in total).

The “in return” for you:

A level caravan site (gravel and grassed) surrounded by privacy trees, with beautiful uninterrupted lake views);

Access to power, water, and a dump point for your chemical toilet;

A shade-sail covered concrete pad annexure to our masonry block shed (although there is plenty of room on the caravan pad for your own annex!);

Stored in the shed for your use: gas BBQ, gas pizza oven and if required a 5kg washing machine;

Explore the lake from our kayaks - 2 available; also bicycles (2) explore the Atherton Rail Trail, and an outdoor fire pit for those cool nights under the stars;

As there are no pets requiring constant care you do not have to be on-site for the entirety of our 3 months’ absence - you are free to travel and explore Far North Queensland for short stints during the sit.

Our property is in a residential sub-division with bitumen access and town water.

Please reach out with your queries and to obtain further information.

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