Lady of the lake
Cover shot supplied by Noosa Hinterland Realty - see page 2 for more information on this Traveston prestige property.
Hinterland Living real estate guide
A magazine for Eumundi & Hinterland { eumundigreen.com.au } summer 2017
PO Box 61 Eumundi QLD 4562 2/84 Memorial Drive Eumundi QLD 4562 Phone: 07 5442 8333 Fax: 07 5442 8899
PERFECT LIFESTYLE RETREAT ON 10 ACRES
STUNNING ENTERTAINER
GRAND MANOR HOME
This stunning 500m2 master built home overlooks a picturesque dam with stone bridge, boardwalk and exotic gardens. Ideal wedding venue! High ceilings, open plan living and spacious entertaining areas create a fabulous relaxing lifestyle. The gardens are a delight and easily managed with irrigation from the dam. A cleared 5 acre paddock would suit horses etc.
Looking for the WOW factor? This immaculate 4 bedroom home has fabulous decks to entertain a crowd in style! Even the master bedroom has its own private courtyard with market umbrella. Need a studio or workshop? Then a 5.5m x 4.5m powered shed with roller door will certainly fit the bill! Beat the heat with zoned ducted aircon throughout. Gated side access for your caravan or boat.
Versatility and uniqueness abound in this European style mansion. With 6 large bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 3 living areas there is ample opportunity to tailor this home to your needs. Set on 1.38 acres with award winning pool your lifestyle is complete. Currently licensed as a luxury B & B you can have an income or simply enjoy this magnificent home!
TRAVESTON
$1.25M
EUMUNDI
DOONAN
Carol Dolan
m. 0412 062 882
SO
LD
4 Sanderson Rd, Eumundi SO
SO
Carol Dolan
LD
10 Seib Rd, Eumundi
$573,000
m. 0412 062 882
SO
$1.745M
Adam Kuczynski
LD
SO
170 Jocelyn Dr, Eumundi
0407 596 547
LD
22 Crescent Rd, Eumundi
LD
395 Pryor Rd, Verrierdale SO
LD
111 Main Camp Rd, Eumundi
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www.noosahinterlandrealty.com.au
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spotlight: Cooroy The region of Cooroy (4563) is a mix of semi-rural and residential living, located in the northern Sunshine Coast hinterland about 22 kms west of Noosa Heads. Nicknamed the Heart of the Hinterland, Cooroy is within the local government area Shire of Noosa (between 2008 and 2013 it was within Sunshine Coast Region) and the federal electorate of Wide Bay. In the 2011 census, the population of Cooroy was 3,459. Name origin
in a snapshot 2011 Census • Population: 53.5% females and 46.5% males. • Average age: 45 years • 78.6% born in Australia, 5.9% England, 3% New Zealand, 0.9% Germany, 0.5% USA, 0.4% Zimbabwe, 0.3% Thailand, 0.3% Scotland, 0.3% Philippines, 0.2% India, 0.2% Northern Ireland, 0.2% Wales, 0.2% Jersey, 0.2% Canada, 0.2% Netherlands
Cooroy’s name came from Cooroy Mountain, which was originally called Coorooey. The word for possum, kurui, is derived from the language of the Gubbi Gubbi people, the original inhabitants of the area. Settlement history
• 48.2% over 15 were employed full time, 39.6% part time, 6.5% were unemployed
Before Europeans, the land was covered in thick rainforest. The area was explored by timber-cutters as early as 1863. It became a logging camp in the 1880s and Cooroy was established in 1885. A railway station and post office opened in 1891. In 1902, the ‘township’ was described as a collection of huts and tents of timber workers clustered around the railway. The only buildings were the office of James Duke and the Station Master’s residence. JL. Boden established the first store in Cooroy in 1906. The first town survey was conducted in 1907. To meet the need to process local timber, the Fenwick brothers and Robert Morrish established Cooroy’s first sawmill in 1908 in the vicinity of what is now the Lower Mill Site. Cooroy quickly became a thriving township and its main industry was timber, with two operating sawmills, then also dairying and fruit growing. By 1910 three banks opened, with a hotel and several cottages also under construction. The school, built in 1909, had an attendance of 67. In 1915, a butter factory opened. Its closure 60 years later marked the change of land use from farming to rural residential.
Major features Cooroy Golf Club, Cooroy Bowls Club, Cooroy RSL, RV park, railway station, Noosa Library, Butter Factory Arts Centre, Fire brigade, police station, SES, Noosa Botanical Gardens, Lake Macdonald, School of Arts Hall, Noosa walking trail network, sports complex, gymnasium, tennis club, scout hall, swimming pool, gymnastics club, show jumping and equestrian club, supermarket, Lower Mill Site, Waste Water Treatment Plant, Mount Tinbeerwah lookout, Ringtail State Forest, West Cooroy State Forest. Schools Noosa Christian College, Noosa District State High School, Cooroy State School, Cooroy Community Kindergarten, Karinya Montessori Children’s House.
• Main occupations: 17.2% Technicians & trades workers, 14.% Professionals, 13.8% Clerical & administrative, 12.8% Community & personal service workers, 12.6% Labourers, 10.8% Sales workers, 9.9% Managers, 6.8% Machinery operators & drivers • Average household income: $469 per week and household income was $851 • 49.3% married, 41.5% not married, 9.2% defacto 2016 House Report • Average rent: $450 per week and median mortgage $1650 per month • Average house price was $470,000
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Habitat sculptures ... Cont’d from page 9 The Green 262 This Habitat Sculpture is currently on display at the Noosa and District Landcare office in Pomona, and the colony of bees have now successfully adopted the sculpture as their home. Since then I’ve made numerous Habitat Sculptures of various themes and characters, to suit a variety of different wildlife. I offer my sculpting services to the whole Sunshine Coast region. I hope I can inspire people to get creative and sculpt, carve or construct their own Habitat Sculptures, and encourage others to do their little bit towards conservation of our unique wildlife. Shane recently created a facebook page to assist local wildlife carers find suitable green waste donations for wildlife food. Facebook: Green Waste for Wildlife Facebook: Shane Christensen Garden Artisan
Photos: Body art pic by LisaSista Photography. John Steel Singers - Eumundi Live pic by Ilsa Wynne-Hoelscher. Other pics by Sebastin Cooper, Richard Locke, Matt Blak
Craft on show Along with being one of the hinterland’s primary gallery spaces, the Butter Factory Arts Centre on Maple St. in Cooroy has established itself as an epicentre for painters and potters, with classes offered in both mediums most days of the week. The community’s creative space has now also established an artisan shop (inside the gallery space) which is open Tuesdays to Sundays, 10am – 3pm. butterfactoryartscentre.com.au
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Evolution of a wooden board
Sacha Hamilton-MacLaren, Eumundi
Tom Wegener’s two storey workshop sits amongst trees in that slice of land behind the Bruce connecting Eumundi to Cooroy along Sunrise Rd, through green hills and clumps of bush. It’s here that Tom’s passion for developing wooden surfboards has evolved into a lifelong pursuit. Tom made his first board in 1978 as a kid in California. He and his brother Jon lived for surfing. “He said to me, ‘Tom I’m gonna make surfboards” So I said, “Well if you’re going to make surfboards then I’m going to too!’ and so we went into business together,” Tom explained. But then in 1998 the Australian surf and culture was calling. Tom flew to Melbourne then drove up the Coast with his wife until they hit the Sunshine Coast. “We just couldn’t believe it - we thought it was paradise. It’s just so gorgeous!” With a baby on the way, the couple decided to settle. Tom wanted to be near the Noosa points but needed room to make surfboards, so they looked to the hinterland. “We found this house with a surfboard workshop attached – and it’s rural – you can make anything out here and it’s affordable.” Tom believes the hinterland gave him the time to perfect his passion for wooden boards and a creative community of open minded people willing to give it a try. At first Tom was doing a solid business making custom foam surfboards, but he loved the carpentry involved in shaping wood so he began experimenting. “I became absolutely fanatical about making super, high quality wood surfboards that would last forever.” Tom says he loves wood because it’s not toxic – unlike resin and fibreglass - and much prefers working it to foam. He developed a hollow wood surfboard sealed with fibreglass which sold like hotcakes. “The key part of that was I found this sustainable wood called Paulownia which is grown on sustainable Australian plantations, which is
light, real easy to use, but most importantly doesn’t absorb salt water – and that completely changed everything!” Tom enthused the resulting plankton boards eventually didn’t need the glass coating but could be sealed with linseed oil. Then, in 2004, Tom travelled to Hawaii and discovered the thin, wood surfboards that the islanders had been shaping for thousands of years, and had virtually disappeared. This sparked a new direction for the master shaper. “They’re so beautiful, so well made, and it would’ve been so hard to carve them out of hard wood using shells and rocks, so they must have had a really spectacular purpose – I wanted to figure out what it was.” Tom and his mate, Eumundi surfing legend Jacob ‘Stuthy’ Stuth (who also moonlights as a landscape architect and owner of Coastal Bamboo) began perfecting the Alaia – a tombstone shape with a rolled deck and no fin. “It was Jacob that saw what I was doing – took the planks and went with it – pretty much for two years we were the only two surfing the planks,” Tom shared. The fellas discovered the Alaia had incredible speed and agility. “To stand on them – the acceleration and the speed is just phenomenal,” Tom explained, “take away the fin, your rail can be straight like this because 6
your fin is actually the rail that you’re using to capture the wave and turn – a wider tail means the board can be shorter so you can have a smaller surface area.” When Jacob discovered how a slight concave gave better flex, Tom adjusted the shape. Tom shared that now people all over the world ride boards like this but warned you need to be a fit, seasoned rider. “It’s kind of considered the ultimate challenge – how good a surfer are you? Can you ride an Alaia?” Having found Paulownia and rediscovered the ancient Hawaiian board, Tom began experimenting with a new board made from materials not usually used together to make a board - wood and cork. “Cork doesn’t buckle – it took years to make a board that will flex but not buckle.” To shape a board with cork, Tom starts with an Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam core and then uses a vacuum bag to shape the cork and Paulownia. The pressure pushes the wood and cork into all the grooves and copies the exact shape.
Tom shaping the foam core Wooden boards including the first Alaia (left) and belly boards. of a corky.
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offering corky shaping workshops. “My ultimate goal for society is... I really want kids to be making their own surfboards in their garages again. “It takes hours of total concentration and I believe it identifies who you are and creates the person you become... shapes how you approach a problem. “That’s where your mind learns these mental gymnastics – how to take an idea, raw products, use your hands and make that thing...” Tom mused.
“People are really focused on doing tricks now – but just standing there is enough – just standing on a wave and enjoying it – and just kind of getting that little extra balance...it’s good.” Tom is keen on customising this new genre of design to suit different shapes and riders. He’s also begun
Photos thanks to local surf photographer Chris VanWyk. chrisvanwyk.com
You can find Tom every Saturday at Noosa Longboards and more about his boards and workshops at tomwegenersurfboards.com.
It is said that in real estate the golden rule is “location, location, location”. This may be true but for my money to also find an agent that provides “service, service, service” is akin to finding gold. Penny Neep from Robert James Reality was just such a find. My wife and I have known Penny in a professional sense for over three years and have entrusted her with both the purchasing and selling of our property in Doonan. Our dealings with Penny have been exceptional, as she offered amazing customer service, great area knowledge, constant and immediate communication and most importantly a sense of calm and control during the difficult aspects of the negotiations. Penny often went above and beyond the normal scope of her role by working long hours and driving many kilometres to help achieve the sale. Nothing proved to be a problem for Penny, despite our numerous panic attacks when we encountered stumbling blocks along the way. One of the many great aspects of Penny’s service is the fact that she is also a qualified Justice of the Peace, which proved extremely valuable when documents urgently needed to be witnessed. When we have had dealings with other agents in the past, we have often been critical of their “deafening silence” when it came to feedback from open house and organised PENNY NEEP appointments. These other agents have also been lacking in communication skills particularly when awaiting the outcome of key points of negotiation in times when written offers where being finalised. Penny excelled in this area as she would ALWAYS contact us the same day as the inspection and ALWAYS provide feedback even if there was no news to report We strongly recommend Penny as your next agent of choice as you too will benefit from her 100% commitment, honesty, professionalism, sense of humour and most significantly the friendship that resulted from her assistance in arguably one of the most important decisions we make in our life. Thank you so much for everything you have done for us and you have completely exceeded all of our expectations once again Great work Penny...........legend! The Applegates, November 2016 If you have any real estate questions please call Penny Neep 0400 or email penny.neep@robertjamesrealty.com.au 7
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STYLE AND ELEGANCE WITH VIEWS—$925,000 - 5 bed 2 bath home + office + 3 bed 1 bath granny flat - Huge timber entertaining deck, French doors - Polished timber floors, lovely high ceilings - Neutral modern tones, air con and fans - Spectacular ocean views throughout - Community driven Forest Acres Drive - Close to town and shops Robyn Kildey 0414 425 350 Ref: 835
ENTERTAINERS’ DELIGHT—POA - Modern home open plan, kitchen/living/dining - 5 flat, usable acres with 6 bedroom, 2 bathroom - Master bedroom with large ensuite and WIR - Outdoor entertaining area with facilities - Impressive salt water, in ground pool - 5 stables, 8 holding yards, feed shed - Town water, 2 x tanks, sheds and dam Stacey Hitch 0411 429 499 Ref: 826
BEAUTIFUL USABLE ACREAGE SO CLOSE TO TOWN—$649,000 - 3 bed 2 bath modern, stylish home on 3.3 acres - Free flowing style beautifully designed layout - Large calming master suite with stylish en-suite - Outdoor timber patio and large pergola - Patio accessible from master and dining - 4 fenced, level, horse perfect paddocks - Short drive to Cooroy approx. 20mins to Noosa Kimberlea Thwaites 0431 297 848 Ref: 836
THE BEST HOME IN THE BEST STREET—$715,000 - Unique and Beautiful, 4 bedroom, 2 bath - Architecturally design inspired home - Enormous lounge/dining area, fireplace - Stunning stone galley/island kitchen - Inside/outside area, mountain views - Full outdoor kitchen extends to pool - Large rear deck, fire-pit + workshop Brian George 0423 475 914 Ref: 848
Countryside Realty Noosa Pty Ltd 1 Emerald Street Cooroy 4563, Qld, Australia Phone: 07 5447 7733 Fax: 07 5447 7732 www.countrysidenoosa.com.au