After moving to the Blue Mountains in 2009, Bridget and Brad Carmady quickly grew to know – and love – the beautiful part of NSW they now call home. Early on, town planner Brad discovered a large parcel of untouched land near Blackheath that particularly sparked his interest, so much so that he dreamt of buying it one day. “My husband had his eye on this land for quite some time,” Bridget explains. “He thought it was the best block in the area.”
In 2016, that block – all 40 hectares of it – was put on the market. But the timing wasn’t quite right. Bridget and Brad had just bought a