Australian Country

Work in progress

They say the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. And that is precisely how Jo Little and Gary Brown are going about renovating their historic home at Yankalilla.

“We’d been hunting for a cottage as a bolthole from Adelaide for a while,” Jo recalls. “Then friends who knew us well phoned and said ‘we’re sitting outside your new house. It’s called Bangala’. So we jumped online and had a look. Turns out it was a massive mansion, not what we had in mind at all, but it was intriguing enough for us to go and inspect the very next day.”

While Jo was smitten at the first sight

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