Spindrift cottage sits on a 100-acre subdivision, once a part of the vast Birkenburn cattle station ranging over several thousand acres in the last century.
A well known local contractor who has fenced off much of Spindrift and many of its neighbours, recounts his time as a jackaroo moving cattle around the estate when most of Spindrift was cattle grazing and devoid of any trees. It has regenerated in the last 30-50 years, allowing the property’s regrowth in bush grasses and eucalypt forest. Spindrift today is made up mainly of rolling hills in changing colours of sand, olive green and ochre decorated with forests of brittle gum, wattle, scrub, bush and grasslands. The cottage’s immediate surroundings have been landscaped with a mixture of native and deciduous trees, grasses and shrubs.
