Rustic Farm Stay Retreat – Cosy Getaway Under the Stars Escape the city and unwind at peaceful Willow Downs. 3 hours from Sydney and close to Mudgee and Bathurst. Accessed via a scenic 20-minute drive off the Castlereagh Highway. Disconnect city life but still connect world with fast Starlink internet. Offers sweeping rural views from every window. Enjoy crackling Wood fireplace or campfire under full of stars with shooting star. Book your stay and experience the serenity of the countryside. The space Willow Downs is running cattle farm with 10 Wagyu including 4 calves. Also have 4 Geese around homestead as true freerange way. Willow Downs has own Hill Top and River within total 98Ha land area. Please make sure close the Gates manually whenever you passing paddocks to avoid the potential cattle running. Approx 30 min required to be on top of Hill via internal trail which combination of easy & difficult mountain road. I put the redline on couple of spots to stop enter a few old mining ground hole for the safety reason. The fatastic view from the top will offset the efforts you spent to climb the hill. There is a running Crudine River on lower side of Willow Downs about 400m as a part of boundaries between neighbor. There is about 200m long wide River allowed plan Kayak in high water season. There are many Carp fish in the River. If you are keen for fishing, It may worth to try with corn bate. Guest access Hill Top Need to across two different paddocks to enter montain road. I haven't see yet but survey plan shows Koala Protection line on the way to Hilll Top. Hope anyone observe Koala and share the photo with us. Please contact me to have details of way to the Hill Top challenge. Crudine River River offers three potential activities Kayak, Fishing and Gold panning. There is a Kayak with Rod for visitor use but It only possible to do with good waterflow in River. There is a basic fishing rod & equip on homestead to try Eroupean Carp Fishing which treated badly in AU but not in other countries. I only obserbed about 10 of them within 20 minutes and the size was minium 30cm. Canned corn is the 1st recommended bates for this fish. Cattle Feeding (herbivores) There are 10 hungry Wagyu Cattle on one of paddock. Happy to offer cattle feed but it required extra care with fee for the hay($30 per a huge bag load). Once cattle focus on hays, you will have about 20 minute for photo time without interruption from cattle. Geese Feeding (herbivores) There are 4 Emden white geese around Dams and Homestead(lost other 5 without any clue). They are smart and very protective not only themselve but Willow Downs Farm. You will be greeted/threthened by Geese from time to time. A couple of pieces of bread will be enough to make them calm down and being a friends with you. Chicken Feeding (omnivore) - Sorry. lost all from Fox attached. E Bike Hire As running farm, E bike is tool for me(farmer) for routine work. Due to no farm working during visitor stay, E bike is available to hire with extra cost $50 for stays. Please aware farm insurance does not cover any injury from E- bike riding. It has 1000W electric power to support easy riding. It will be handy to explore 98Ha farm and also excercise like other normal bike. Registration Details PID-STRA-80590