19 JR’S HUT AT KIMO ESTATE, GUNDAGAI, NSW
This stunning eco hut delivers a measure of back-to-basics living tempered with just the right amount of simple luxuries.
I AWAKE IN THE MIDDLE of the night to a view of the inky-black sky filled with stars. The moon lights up the inside of my partially glass-walled eco hut on Kimo Estate (kimoestate.com) and I see the embers are still aglow in the fireplace from earlier that night when I sat by its warmth with a tall glass of local Borambola Wines shiraz. I marvel at how much brighter the moon shines out here in the absence of all other light sources. I pull the sheets up higher, inch further down into bed and slowly drift back to sleep.
This is just one of many memorable moments from my stay in JR’s Hut, one of three eco huts on the property (with more on the way), spaced kilometres apart for privacy and each with the added luxury of a wood-fired hot tub. The hut – which is far too modest a term to use for such a beautiful, architecturally designed timber structure – is pitched high on the hilltop of a vast working sheep and cattle farm located about a 3.5-hour drive from Sydney and 10 minutes from Gundagai. From the verandah I see the Murrumbidgee River snake its way through the patchwork of green-and-yellow farmland below. Cockatoos take up residence in a
