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Angela Martin: Hi, I’m Angela Martin and welcome to number 21 La Road in Mona Mona, which is actually still part of the Greater Kuranda region. Fantastic address, beautiful name, Mona Mona, I just love that. It is becoming harder and harder to find that perfect lifestyle block of land where you can just escape the hustle and bustle of modern living, and it’s even more difficult to find something that’s beautiful, it’s got lots of space, lots of privacy and even harder again if you want it to be beautiful, have the space, have the privacy, and a spectacular view. That is a one-in-a-million opportunity.
This is that one-in-a-million opportunity. It’s on a whole 79 acres, beautiful, just magnificent jaw-dropping block of land where you can actually create and build your own dream, whatever that might be. We’re going to have a wander through and I’m going to show you all the lovely yummy bits that you’re going to fall in love with. We’re going to be doing quite a few drone shots so you get a sense of how we actually come in from La Road and the elevation and the bits all around about the actual land.
I just wanted to show you when we come in from La Road, we actually come along a gazetted road which actually used to be an old goldfield road, and it still runs through the property up to the old goldfields in the Tablelands, not literally but the old track, if you look on the old maps, will actually show you. There’s quartz has actually been found here and maybe little bits of gold in Flaggy Creek, but we’ll keep all that for later.
This little entrance here is actually part of a gazetted road, doesn’t look like a road, looks like it’s part of the land, but your land starts, we’ve got a little peg over here, come around this way and I’ll show you. We’ve got a peg over here and then when you come to visit, we run this way. We’ve got a culvert here, which has all the water come through it. That post up there, that post there, this is the start and the gazetted road, which is not a used road, as you can see, it’s got trees and grass on it, actually runs all the way up to the left-hand side of the post.
Then we’ve got number 69 just so that you are actually on your land. Now 79 acres, oh my goodness, that is just a ridiculous amount of space and about 10 or 15 acres of that has actually been cleared. We’re going to probably jump in the car, do a bit of a drive around, like I said, have a look at the drone shots so that you can see coming from La Road, we go through gate number one which is on the gazetted road, and then gate number two is also on the gazetted road, and then we come along that little driveway that I just showed you to lot 69. Trees in here. We’ve got a dam. Just beautiful. Let’s jump in the car and have a look.
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Jump on in, I’m going to take us up to the top where that spectacular view is absolutely jaw-dropping. We’re just coming in over where that culvert was, and then that’s the post, one of the corner posts just up there on the left-hand side which goes diagonal, we will have a look at that, up the other side of the land, but this is spectacular. In behind here, we have got a dam. Nice and cool, nice and breezy, but wait until you see up here.
So we’ve got over on the left-hand side, this is all the cleared area, cleared paddock if you like. We spoke about horses, we spoke about cattle, but this is where the house pad has been cleared. As you can see, it’s quite a fair bit away, almost quite slap bang in the middle of the property but very close. Then over to the right-hand side here, we’ve got plenty of, look at that beautiful Cadaghi tree. Look at that, that’s amazing, they’re fabulous rainforest trees. Up the back, we will actually have a look in the rainforest because it’s spectacular.
All right, now you imagine coming up here whether you’re building your house, whether you’re building a Queenslander, whether you’re building a block house, or even whether you just want a shed, great big five-bay shed, there is plenty of space. I’ve got to concentrate on my driving. So we’re going to head up just round here, a couple of tracks down the back that we’ll have a look at, and wait until you see this.
I’m going to stop the car, we’re going to get out of the car and we’re going to look at that. And this, like I just said, this is a– drum roll, ta-da. If ever you wanted spectacular, and I don’t care what you think, of course, I care what you think, that is absolutely spectacular. The house pad here has actually been sculpted and crafted and created to maximize those absolutely stunning, stunning views.
Now if we actually come over this way a little bit, a little bit difficult to see, a little bit cloudy today, but the one in the middle is Black Mountain. Off to the left of that, you can actually see Mossman Gorge, yes Mossman Gorge, way up north of Port Douglas. Then the mountain on the right-hand side is Mount Doug. Now, it’s awe-inspiring, it is just, it’s breathtaking. The land between here and the other side, we’ve got about 600 metres from that far corner post, I’ll show you that, it’s a little bit complicated. Well, it’s not complicated at all, it’s just a rectangle, but we look at everything we see there, it’s on our land, it’s all you need to know.
If we’re actually facing north as well, so that if you wanted to get sunset, you could just take out a little hole in these trees over here and you get sunset to the west, beautiful north, sun comes up in the morning over here to the east. One thing that the original owners were going to do and it’s up to you whether you want to do it or not, is to actually create this fabulous drive-around cycle, so as you come up from here, we can see where we’ve driven up. Again, private, like private and wild, like you wouldn’t believe.
Your track up in there or your driveway, all the way up around there, all the way around the back of the house and here, and that’s a massive pad. I know that when we’re just looking at it on the film, it doesn’t do it justice, but it’s actually a really, really, really big pad. These have just all been cleared, so that will all be burned, that will all be gone, and we’ve got this beautiful grassed area, grassed paddock. Like I said, we could do horses or we could do cattle or you could just build your lifestyle dream five-bay shed, doesn’t even have to be a house, but this is absolutely spectacular. Just breathe it in, and then we’re going to have a quick look at the rainforest just up behind us.
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You would never tire of waking up in the morning and looking at that, that’s just breathtaking, absolutely breathtaking. Just to put the size of your property into perspective, the back boundary is almost half a kilometre long, that’s about 480 metres, that’s massive. Then along this side, which actually includes all those trees down the gulley and up to the other side of the trees from the far corner down to that post that I showed you at the beginning, or I’ll show you when we go up, it’s about 600 metres. So 600 metres that way, 480 nearly half a kilometre in that direction.
This pad is sort of roughly nestled in the middle just maybe a little bit off to that side, but you get nobody there, you get nobody there, you get nobody there, and you absolutely have nobody there. Privacy, peace, quiet, it just doesn’t get any better than this. That is just absolutely stunning. Now we are going to have a quick look at those old logging trails because I want to show you what the inside of that rainforest looks like. It is spectacular.
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We’ve got about three tracks that are easily walkable. This one just when we get over that little bit of tree that’s fallen there is a beautiful track and it takes us up to a right-hand boundary. Then as we come through here into, wait until you see this, wait until you see it. Look, we have gone from hot, sunny, bright, sparkly into almost like the land that time forgot. This is beautiful. Rainforest like you’ve never seen rainforest before.
The trees are massive, and as I said, this used to be some of the older trails were from the old logging, from yesteryear, just as we had the old gold gazetted road from yesteryear. It used to be up in the goldfields up in Atherton. This is where the old logging trucks would come through. Tracks are still pretty much walkable, so we can head down through that way. Then if we walk down through here, which we won’t walk all the way because remember we’re kilometres, well half a kilometre. This will take us, I don’t know if you can see this, it’s important that you do because it’s beautiful.
This lovely walkable track all the way through here actually takes us to the very back of the property, so if you follow that track down there, you’ll hit the back boundary. Then on that side of the back boundary, we’ve actually got a creek, Pearce Creek, that runs across the back corner. Look at these. These are amazing. I just love the trees, absolutely beautiful, and look at how tall and straight that is. This is absolutely priceless.
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We could be walking in here for hours and hours and hours and even on the hottest of sunniest days, we live in the world heritage, absolutely beautiful world heritage rainforest, so we have the best of both worlds. Speaking of which, can you believe that as we walk through here and then we come back out onto that magnificent view through here, we are only 16 kilometres, yes you heard right, only 16 kilometres from Kennedy Highway, so you still have access to everything that you would ever want to have access to, less than an hour to Cairns International Airport, yet you come home or you come to the weekend, or you just have your dream lifestyle with that. We’re going to jump back in the car and I’m going to take us down and round the other side so you can see that side of the property, but all of this is just jaw-droppingly beautiful.
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We’re going to jump back in the car and head down to the dam as I just said, and I reckon this path is maybe three-quarters of an acre. I didn’t actually pace it out because we could run out of time, but it is massive. Anyway, jump on in and I’m going to take you down to the dam. That is just the most amazing Cadaghi tree, the rainforest trees on this property are amazing.
Now if we have a look down here, this is where, depending on where you put your driveway, is what you’d see when you leave at the beginning of the day or when you’re just going out and growing your veggies, tending to your horses, just feeding your cattle. This boundary over here, this is the one that I said was about 600 metres from way at the very back corner, this back corner here, right up across there, so that is a beautiful big buffer. You’re going to get birds, you’re going to get butterflies, you’re going to get all sorts of things in there.
Just a natural little gulley down over here, and this is where we’ve got the dam where the trees are. When we came in at the beginning, when we seen that number 69, that was the back end of the dam. Now, we can actually go up this little track up there, again that takes us to the right-hand boundary, but if we just head down here, it’s such a big block, 79 acres, where on earth are you going to get 79 acres, whoops, a little bit jiggly, with a spectacular view with 10 to 15 acres of cleared land for you to pretty much do whatever you want to do on.
I’ve chopped down some trees so that we can get– Whoops, we probably should just be walking. This is just brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I could have actually come down the road, but I chose not to just so we get a sense of the dam. Here we are here in amongst these trees, and we’ll actually get out of the car so that we can have a look. Let’s jump out. Before we head to the dam, again just from an orientation point of view, this is the pad. Come up over here so we can see.
That’s the road that we came in, right up to that very top little enclave where we have the fabulous views out to Black Mountain, Mount Doug, of course, Mossman Gorge, and you get a lay of the land just there, totally usable, totally plantable, totally buildable. Then we have got our boundary at the back of all these trees that goes way up over there, point in the wrong direction, way up over there and it sort of goes round, and we’ll have a look at that. That’s a beautiful buffer, and this is the dam.
I want us to walk and also jump in the car because you get a sense of the scale, you get a sense of the size and as I said at the beginning, we’ve got the pad up here which is not exactly slapping in the middle, but it’s pretty close, maybe a little bit more off to one side, but you have no neighbours, absolutely no neighbours and 16km from the highway, absolutely brilliant.
If you’ve got horses or as I said, you probably could run I don’t know 10 head of cattle, maybe a little bit more, we’ve got a water source there, you could always make this dam bigger. You could bring in a machine and you could just sculpt it all out because your genuine water course is probably going to come down through here, nice natural area, and of course, we’ve got the trees around it so it helps with evaporation, but this is absolutely spectacular. We’re going to head back to almost the beginning and we’re going to look at that other side so you get a sense of what that looks like.
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We’ve just come and had a look at the dam, I just wanted to almost like we said we’ve almost come back at the very beginning. That’s where we stood and I said this, if you head over that way so I can show you, other side of that culvert we’ve got a little peg and this was the course that I was actually pointing to, so from here, down over there is one part of the boundary of the land. Then from here
straight up, around about another 300 metres, when you come here you’ll see it, there’s another little white post up there and it just goes for about 300 metres, and then that 600-metre spot that we spoke about that runs across the back of the trees, 300, another 600, almost to that back corner, it’s vast.
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I really hope you enjoyed this wonderful little tour of number 21 La Road at Mona Mona, lot number 69. Why would you buy this property? That is the most stunning view in the whole wide world and all the bits that we’ve walked around, all the little bits of green if you like, are nestled in amongst magnificent, beautiful rainforest, and of course, to get here, we’re only 16k’s from the highway and we come off La Road and we come along that little bit of a, doesn’t even look like a road, it looks like you’re driving through someone else’s land, but that old gazetted road, gate number one, we’ve got to close it behind us, gate number two, we’ve got to close it behind us, and then it takes us right to the very bottom there, the entrance to lot 69.
Seventy-nine magnificent acres, all you can hear, butterfly wings, bird song, and the most sparkly, beautiful environment. This is a one-in-a-million and I mean a one-in-a-million property. You’re just not going to find that. You can build your dream, whatever it might be, lifestyle, mansion, two-bedroom shouse, workable shed, weekender, it is all here for that ultimate off-grid lifestyle where you just want to get away from the modern world and you just want to be at one with nature. Close to Kuranda village, less than an hour to Cairns International Airport, this is absolutely majestical. I look forward to meeting with you.
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