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Rainwater tanks arrived

May 11th, 2008

To get the Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat more eco friendly we had to have more watertanks. We ordered them 9 months ago and now they finally arrived. Two 2000 gallon tanks for the shop and the Kangaroo cabin and one 5000 gallon tank for the three other cabins. Now it’s up to us to get the rebate; the Government excluded caravan parks! Very unfair, but we’ll see what we can do. Hopefully we get the wet winter they are talking about !!

wireless internet

March 14th, 2008

We just don’t stop upgrading our park. With the help of AccommIT we now have wireless internet available.  Another service for our guests out here “in the bush”.

spacious grassed sites

November 20th, 2007

spacious grassed sites at cania gorge tourist retreat

The Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat is a 4 star establishment, part of a national chain and Dogs are WELCOME. It is situated in a valley of colourful sandstone walls and offers spacious, grassy powered and unpowered sites for caravaners and campers. A very well equipped community camp kitchen makes it easy for campers who are lightly equipped or only travelling with bare essentials. Owners Gerard and Margaret pride themselves on making sure that their park is an eco-friendly one and have made numerous improvements in this direction in the last 18months since taking it over. For me it was lovely to see the free-range chooks roaming around the park grazing on what ever they could find in the grass. At 4pm each day you can feed the parrots, this was an amazing experience as hundreds of parrots flew in to have a feed, their non-stop chatter makes your ears ring.
Cania Gorge Tourist Retreat is relaxing and peaceful, there are hammocks hung throughout the park just waiting for you to take an afternoon ceiester or just kick back and read a book. If you have your dog with you, as I did, you will be happy to know there is a large dog walking area and plenty of shade. The tourist retreat is bordering the National Park and 6 of 7 walking tracks in the National Park leave from the front gate.

Comment by Lisa and Darin

fully self containable cabin at cania gorge tourist retreat

We finally finished the first unit. We have upgraded it to a fully self containable cabin. The new cabin is a 1 bedroom cabin and can sleep up to 5 persons (double or queen bed, single bunkbeds and sleeping sofa) and have a kitchen, ensuite, tv, sofa and reverse cycle A/C. The cabins still have a very spacious verandah, so you can enjoy the beautiful view on the cliffs.

New bookings number !!

October 1st, 2007

If you want to make a booking you can now call us on our new freecall number !!!!!

The number is 1 800 44 60 10

relief managers

August 6th, 2007

ron & jenni (relief managers) at cania gorge tourist retreat
After being on the park for 1 year, we recently had our first long break. Ron & Jenni Bednal came in and looked after the park. They did a very good job and we are very grateful to have met them. Ron & Jenni will be back on our park in the future.

Thanks Ron & Jenni!

relax and play chess

July 15th, 2007

play chess at cania gorge tourist retreat

Besides swimming, walking and enjoying wildlife you can now play a game of chess on our park with our big garden chess set. The board is 2.5 mtr x 2.5 mtr and the pieces are 40 cm high. Another little project finished for your relaxation.

saltwater pool

July 4th, 2007

adding 200 kg of salt to the pool at cania gorge tourist retreat
After the powered sites, our next project was changing our chlorinated pool into a saltwater pool, which is better for environment and health. Besides putting in an electrical device, we had to add 200 kg of salt. The pool is ready for use again.

easter at cania gorge tourist retreat
One of our guests made this beautiful picture of our park during the Easter weekend. We were fully booked, but as you can see, it still was very spacious around the sites. It was our first Easter as the new owners of cania gorge tourist retreat and it was great to see so many people having a good time. Thanks for this beautiful picture!

new powered sites

March 21st, 2007

new powered sites at cania gorge tourist retreat

just ready before Easter. 16 extra powered sites are ready to book. thanks to Barnett Plumbing and Monto Electrical Services we now have a total of 40 powered sites and still a very spacious park. Both businesses are also involved in our next project. All our cabins will become en suited with all modern facilities.