Housitting At Middlecamp - Cowell ~ South Australia

We are here in the small township of Cowell, experienceing our first house sitting job.  How lucky were we to fall into this wonderful place.

The name of the property is 'Middlecamp'.  It is heritage listed and extends to 8,000 acres, most of which is scrub land, and remainder leased out and under cropping.

The house is just immaculate and something like out of Home Beautiful, an dates back to about 1889.  The original homestead is some 5 kilometers up the road and will over the next couple of days get up there to take some photos of the original old homestead and old shearing shed, which are ruins now, but amazing that anything still remains after all these years.

Our main duties are to take care of two lovely kelpies - Jess and Ruby.  There are also 6 chookies, who between them give us a couple of eggs a day and just a bit of general watering of the garden.  Gardening life is hard and and it amazing anything survives, but sheer determination of its devoted owner, keeps it alive somehow.

The dogs just love going to the beach and its a daily tour down to the beach in the old Range Rover, that is called the "mobile kennel" and is really just used to ferry the dogs around the farm and down to the beach - roadworthy??? well that's debatable....

Middlecamp Homestead

 

The Mobile Kennel - Ready for Our Trip To The Beach

 After finding the Rangie low on fuel we swapped over to the little suzuki.  Barry was in his element being back in a suzi again.

Jess - Enjoying her Ride To The Beach

Chasing Their Shadows

At The Beach At Last

Something You Won't Often See lol