Our Hilltop Home - 472 Cedar Creek Road via Samford

This was our family home at Cedar Creek. It was situated at the end of a steep and winding driveway of 700m and had 40 acres of land. On a clear day you could see down through the valley towards the ocean with glimpses of the sandhills of Moreton Island in the Bay. We were very lucky and privileged to live in such a beautiful home in these gorgeous surroundings.

Sunken living room and formal dining room. The open fireplace was beautiful in the middle of winter. Even though it was Queensland, being up on top of a hill we would get very cold westerly winds.

The kitchen and meals area.

Our home theatre got a lot of use. We would watch movies and when a big sports' game was on, would have friends over for a big night.

The main bedroom

and the ensuite.

The guest bedrooms

Our son's room

The swimming pool and spa (with a view out over the valley).

A wooden bridge in my tropical rainforest garden.

The jasper tennis court and gazebo.

A tree python making his way up the trees near the tennis court fence.

The big green tree frogs always came out after the rain. After the rains when the grass was really long we would be visited by the rock wallabies. They would come in family groups and sometimes they had joeys.

There were three dams on this property, two on the western side and one on the north. The largest dam at the front of the property was massive (almost an acre in size) and about 8m deep. The water for all of the gardens was pumped from this dam and there were also fire fighting pumps and hoses around the property in case of a bushfire.

The smalller dam on the western side of the property.

This was the large dam at its lowest level during a severe drought.

Then the rains would come and the water would run down the hill and refill the dam until it overflowed. Queensland is very well known for its huge storms and abundant rain during the wet season.

Waterfalls on the edge of our driveway after heavy rains.