Cockle Beach House in Minlaton, South Australia | Holiday home rental

Cockle Beach House

Locality: Minlaton, South Australia

Phone: +61 418 828 360

Address: 715 Beegoodye Wells Road Cockle Beach 5575 Minlaton, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.cocklebeachhouse.com.au

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24.01.2022 A very busy weekend. It seems the season has come to a big slow down so on Sunday I spent the day doing the annual cleaning of all the fans and cupboard tops. There are 15 fans in this house and six bedrooms with cupboard tops as well as the large kitchen/bar cupboards. That meant up and down a ladder at least 150 times. Took about 6 hours. Quads are obviously still in good shape. Then on Monday I was blessed with amazingly calm weather. The sea was like a mirror, perfe...ctly reflecting the gentle grey skies and a great day to get up on the roof and clean the outside of the upper windows - the remaining job from cleaning the inside windows with my new scaffolding. Now I've removed all the cobwebs that were outside and only had to dispatch two nasty black spiders. The only way to do the cleaning is to lie on my stomach with a bucket of water next to me and stretch my arms out to clean the windows then literally roll over 360 degrees to do the next section. Corrugated iron is very uncomfortable to lie on. So today I am completely back in touch with my oblique abdominal muscles and my triceps that I clearly haven't used for a while. Lactic acid buildup over 5 hours of work is very obvious to me today. In other words, I hurt. Who needs a gym when you can get a great workout cleaning a massive house! Job done! Feeling good. The ONLY WAY water levels are substantially replenished on land is by RAIN. Now with all the window washing achieved, it's a bit like doing a rain dance. It worked. Tuesday morning (7/5/2019) started with very gentle drizzle that turned into something more worthwhile. Hearing the sound of the rain on the roof and the water running into the tanks was like an orchestra to me. I can't begin to tell you how much we need the rain. For those of you who've stayed there you'll know that the entire house, including the lavatories, operates exclusively on rainwater so not being wasteful of water is of paramount importance. This has been the driest summer we've had in years. It's also been the busiest, so to all my lovely guests thanks for being conservative with your water usage. Best wishes to you all. Annette See more

23.01.2022 A year ago I bookmarked this company. A VERY slow summer of 2019, possibly through fear of bushfires, then this bloody virus put a halt to any further developments in terms of upgrading anything. But now, I have finally been able to order my new 100% Australian Made king towels, bathmats, flannels and hand towels from......wait for it.....drum roll.....Rialto Linen (https://www.rialtolinen.com.au/). All the old Aussie brands (Dickies, Dri-glo, Canning Vale and others) are n...ow made overseas and now more than ever, it's important to support our own. Not to mention the immense reduction in carbon miles travelled by buying locally made products. I've been told they'll take about three - four weeks, but my greenish coloured towels are currently at the dyers'. I can't wait for them to arrive. 32 King towels, 32 flannels, 8 bath mats, 10 hand towels is not an inexpensive bill, but I think they will be long-lasting and good value. Thanks to all you wonderful people who have spent time at Cockle Beach House in the past couple of months to make this support of another Aussie business possible.

20.01.2022 Twilight at a function at Cockle Beach House. Guests arriving shortly... Please like and share my post.

16.01.2022 See the big shed in the background? Tonight its roof will be covered in blessed solar panels as we move forward to our more sustainable energy future. It's taken a long time to be able to afford to get here following on from a period of job loss, business closure, unemployment and mortgage hardship but with the past two years of successful bookings and a lot of hard work we have finally been able to get the job done. We have other projects in mind for the future sustainabi...lity of this fabulous property and for its continuous improvement in service to our clients and will continue to work through our list of priorities; the next one being a full upgrade of linen with 10 new King bed sheets already purchased and bathroom linen currently being researched as we'd like to buy Australian Made towels, bath mats and flannels, etc. But for now, I'd like to send a sincere thank you to all of our past and future customers for helping us to achieve this significant milestone. Thank you very much for supporting Cockle Beach House.

16.01.2022 Welcome to our first promotion on Facebook. 24/11/2016 We’re offering a 30% discount for the first booking, a 15% discount for callers 2 to 9 and a huge 50% discount on the 10th booking - all with a minimum 2 night stay at luxurious Cockle Beach House on the Yorke Peninsula (sleeps 14 comfortably). Here’s how it works: 1. Visit our website http://cocklebeachhouse.com.au to get a great look at this gorgeous house. 2. Check out the tariffs page to see what it is going t...o cost you at the appropriate time of year and then take off a minimum 15%. 3. Call 0417 809 433 to make your booking. 4. Mention this ad and you will be given a caller number for this promotion. As bookings come in and we receive a 50% deposit payment for your booking, your promotion number will be recorded in order of receipt. For example, if you’re caller number 1 and you book and pay a 50% deposit promptly you will remain number 1. If you’re caller number 4 and you’re the first to pay your deposit you will become number 1 and receive the 30% discount. And so on until we reach the 10th deposit paid caller who will receive the 50% discount. Bookings are subject to availability and DO NOT include Christmas week or Easter. However, all other public holidays and school holidays are up for grabs so don’t delay. Remember: late summer and autumn are the most wonderful time of year on the Yorke Peninsula. Please like and share this ad with all your friends. They might be lucky enough to be coming with you. See more

13.01.2022 How's this for champagne at sunset? Sitting up in the sandhills watching the sun go down and also watching the bubbles go down. Baby fish skim the water and the bird life is wonderful to watch. Mr Proud and Mr Ponder also skied in on their wave-boards and observed this glorious scenery.

13.01.2022 Verandah table set for a banquet by the beach.

10.01.2022 Table set for 24 for lunch using inside as well as front verandah. Gorgeous day. Fabulous weather and a calm sea view.

07.01.2022 Ah...Finally.... I didn't need to be told about it, but some of you may have noticed that parts of the very high ceiling which surrounds the upper windows had... some staining on it, mostly caused by small speckles of mould. As it turns out the original builders never sealed the tiny gap between the installation of the upper windows and the ceiling leaving the ceiling prone to a minute exposure to the moisture in the external air. Nearly eight years ago - I was a lot younger then - I did a run around the ceiling foolishly standing on the very top step of the ladder, suspending a bucket of soapy water and washing every part of that ceiling whilst hanging onto the window ledge. I was a little more agile then, a lot braver and clearly a lot stupider, but since it was only a few weeks after my mum had passed away, my grieving attitude was pretty nonchalant. I knew it had to be done and I knew I was the only one who was going do it. I started it at lunchtime and finished it at 2am the next morning up and down a very tall ladder dozens of times. I think I was protected and suspended by angels. I hope I didn't exhaust them but I do thank them for protecting me from myself. Well last week I fixed it! I've purchased some really good lightweight scaffolding and I can now get up high and stand on a solid platform while washing that ceiling. I went around the entire 6m ceiling last week and also sealed that tiny gap between the upper windows and the ceiling. It only took me 10 hours this time. Job done. The next section is to do the outside of those upper windows and I have a multitude of jobs for the use of that scaffolding so don't ask me if you can borrow it. :-) Ps. New towels coming soon. Australian Made.

07.01.2022 Another sunset in paradise.

07.01.2022 I've updated our website with some really stunning photos. Go check them out at http://www.cocklebeachhouse.com.au Please like and share my website.

06.01.2022 Great to see the Hardwicke Bay Shop is open again. I'm posting this to let our guests know...

04.01.2022 I heard yesterday on the ABC Radio that some farmer (non-aboriginal) who runs a lease at Point Pearce, which is an Aboriginal community, has successfully applied for a permit to cull (read: kill, murder, annihilate...) up to 200 hundred Southern Hairy-nosed Wombats because they are a pest on his farm land. Bloody Hell!!! Southern Hairy-nosed wombats are our State Fauna Emblem. This could put REAL pressure on the survival of the species. Yesterday I called Quenten Agius at Aboriginal Cultural Tours (aboriginalculturaltourssa.com) and asked if I could help by re-homing some of them. He's taken my number and hopefully will get back to me. I have 74 acres of re-vegetated scrub land. Wombats welcome.