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Biboohra Bush Retreat |
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326 Pickford
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Phone: +61-7-40932787 Email :welcome@biboohrabnb.com.au |
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This site was last updated 08 February, 2009 |
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Amenities Food
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We speak :- English,
German |
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The homestead is for the use of our guests only. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 with ensuites. Each room has its own access to a wide veranda with private table and chairs, overlooking the gardens. You will be able to watch wallabies or possums and observe the busy Bower Bird right from your doorstep! Visitors can enjoy the common lounge with satellite TV and CD player, relax in the BBQ/sitting area or in one of the many secluded spots in the surrounding gardens.
Our breakfasts are served in the dining area or on the verandas. We use organic, home grown and the freshest products available.
Just 10 minutes away by car Mareeba offers pub and club dining plus several cafes and take-a-ways. |
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Our Picture Gallery Click on photos to enlarge |
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| For the more energetic there are 600acres of bush land to explore, with seasonal creeks, waterholes and a dam for fishing, canoeing or just sitting back and watching the water birds or the grazing cattle. | ||||
 Catch your own Yabbies |
 Picnic Crossing |
 Swimming Hole |
 Swimming Hole |
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 Our Vegie Garden |
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 Cattle |
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 Jabiru on the Dam |
 Flower of the 'Leichhardt Tree' |
 Cluster Fig |
 Horses at Dam, Dry-season |
 Great Bower Bird |
 Great Bower Bird's Bower |
 Little "Barn Owl" |
 Little "Barn Owl" Rescued |
 Bandicoot out for Dinner |
 Name the Butterfly ? |
 Bluefaced Honeyeater; photo by |
 Guests from New Zealand |
 Campfire |
 Early Evening at the Dam |
 Art at the Wetlands |
 September Morning on our dam |
 Sulfur Crested Cockatoo
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 Double barred Finches
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 Red Backed Fairy Wren |
 Forest Kingfisher |
 Paleheaded Rosella
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 Brown Treecreeper (black backed)
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 Black Throated Finches
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 Red Winged Parrot
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Accommodation |
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Queen size Room $130 per night
Book 3 nights and pay $100 per night only!
Prices include a delicious breakfast for two and a guided night spotting walk.
Please enquire about our weekly rate. By special arrangement the homestead can be rented out as holiday home for up to 6 people.
BBQ packs are available from $25, incl. salad. Choose from fish, chicken, beef, lamb or kangaroo or a mix of above. Please book BBQ packs a day ahead.
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| We are just 3 km up the road to the famous Mareeba Wetlands where you can have a different experience watching birds. Besides being the seasonal home to a lot of different birds The Wetlands are also breeding the endangered Gouldian Finches for release into the wild. You can observe these beautiful birds in their aviaries adjacent to the visitors centre. |
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The country town of Mareeba just 10 minutes down South, is the “coffee capital” of Australia and you can visit several coffee plantations and The Coffeworks which all offer you a unique and individual experience. A coffee lover’s paradise!! Other culinary delights await you at the Biboohra mango winery, a tropical fruit winery and a distillery. Tasting the various products quite frequently leads to buying…… |
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Other natural and still fairly little known attractions like the beautiful Emerald Falls, Davies Creek National Park and Granite Gorge Nature Park are only a short drive away. Most other attractions of the Tablelands are within just an hour’s drive from our place. The Mareeba Shire, called the ‘Shire of diversity’ offers you rainforest attractions in the East and real outback experience when you venture further out West. |
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Biboohra Bush Retreat B&B
The wildlife on our farm is numerous, and besides watching the wallabies our guests love observing the birds. They have spotted many of the species you find on the list below:
Current Bird List
Pallid Cuckoo, juv. – Oct.2004 Double-barred Finch Little Kingfisher ( breeding in termite nest on tree behind cottage) – Sept. 2004 Channel-billed Cuckoo (Storm Bird) -15.Oct.2004 Common Koel , male - 20.Oct.2004 Common Koel, female - 5.Dec.2004 White-bellied Sea-Eagle - Febr.2005 Dollarbird - Oct.2004 Figbird - Dec.2004 Australian Bustard Red-kneed Dotterel Pacific Baza - Sept.2004 Whistling Kite Peaceful Dove Diamond Dove Crested Pigeon Redtailed Black Cockatoo Little Corella Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Rainbow Lorikeet Red-winged Parrot Eastern Rosella Oriental Cuckoo Pheasant Coucal Barn Owl Tawny Frogmouth, male and female -August 2006 Southern Boobook Azure Kingfisher Blue-winged Kookaburra Brown Quail Red-chested Button Quail ????????? Australian Pelikan Darter Little Black Cormorant Magpie Goose Wandering Whistling-Duck Cotton Pygmy-goose Nankeen (Rufous) Night Heron (Resting on trees in front of homestead during the day. The reason why you should NOT park your car in front of the house….) Black Bittern Black-necked Stork (Jabiru) Yellow-billed Spoonbill Australian White Ibis Brolga Sacred Kingfisher Rainbow Bee-eater Red-backed Fairy-wren Striated Pardalote Blue-faced Honeyeater Grey-crowned babbler Northern Fantail?????????? Grey Fantail Willie Wagtail Spangled Drongo Yellow Oriole???????????? Australian Magpie Pied Butcherbird Double-barred Finch Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
SnakesFile Snake at 4 Mile Creek crossing, Feb.2005Green Yellow Bellied Tree snake Brown Yellow Bellied Tree snake Amethyst Python Swamp Python |