Koala Cottage is a two bedroom – two bathroom cottage situated in a secluded spot of Fern Gulley Retreat. It shares its beautiful surrounds with two other one bedroom cottages all overlooking the Blackwood River. Perfect for couples or singles, you can gaze out from the floor to ceiling sliding doors directly into the towering gums and leafy forest canopy, shrouded by mist in the winter or in the summer open the wide doors and listen to the breeze moving in the valley where one can watch and feed the native birds and animals.
Just a short drive (or walk) up the road towards Nannup brings you to Tathra
Restaurant where a delicious home made lunch is served. Although they are not open for evening meals they will take orders for
dinner and deliver to your door. Menu is available at Reception.
Accredited Tourism Award winner Fern Gulley Retreat is located on one of the state's most picturesque and pristine scenic tourism drives (route 251) following the Blackwood River as it meanders it's way from Balingup to Nannup surrounded by rolling hills, C.A.L.M. and natural forest - yet within easy reach of most coastal and tall karri forests tourist destinations.
Whilst travelling through the South West of Western Australia, Bonnie and Ian Baxter discovered the beautiful Blackwood River Valley
which reminded them of their homeland in Southern England, with its rolling hills, pipe trees and natural forests.
A block of
land on the Blackwood River was available for purchase, Fern Gulley was conceived. Bonnie and Ian were welcomed by Bertie Bird
a white Corella, formerly owned by Mrs. Bird living up the valley but now flying free, but tame. Bertie still visits the guests
10 years later, hoping for a feed of biscuits or buttered bread and a scratch behind the neck or under his wing!
Bonnie and Ian’s aim
was to create a tropical oasis within the very heart of the Blackwood Valley and today Fern Gulley nestles on the banks of the Blackwood
River, the towering palms creating just that – a tropical oasis within the heart of the Blackwood Valley.
