24 Sea Belle Esplanade

Gladstone Harbour QLD 4680

The house overlooks the harbour towards Gladstone with a fantastic light show across the water every evening. It is a 10-minute speed boat ride to Boyne Island/ Tannum Sands - just in case you were craving a soft-serve ice cream!

Sit on the front veranda having your favourite beverage watching the world go by and look down at the tide go in and out on a beach only 40 metres away, 13 metres above the high tide level (nice and high with no tidal surge issues).

Some of the fun things you can do are:
Beach, estuary and reef fishing (whiting, reef fish, parrot, bream, diamond scaled mullet, crayfish, cod and squid can be caught close to the house);
rock oysters,
sandworms (fantastic bait)
green, flat-back, and logger-back turtle nesting; in front of the house, or on the front beach
dolphins,
wallabies,
possums
bird watching - see brolga cranes (large stalk birds) up close.
mud crabs,
mangroves, estruses, sand dunes,
see the whales from the front veranda or from the East Point headland.
many tracks and roads for you to explore this fantastic island by motor cycle, quad bike, gator, dune buggy or 4x4.

Travel to your house by whichever way you wish from either Gladstone, Boyne Island or Tannum Sands:
Dinghy (45 minutes approx. to Gladstone / 15 minutes approx to Boyne Island/Tannum Sands)
Speedboat (20 minutes approx./ less than 10 min to Boyne Island/ Tannum Sands)
Barge service to Gladstone (1.5 hrs depending on tides and will incorporate a 4x4 journey along the Eastern beach to the Northern end of the island to the barge pick-up point at Farmers Point). Barge can be either as a walk-on or drive-on passenger.

This Island House is definitely not a shack. It is modern and fully off-the-grid.
Features include:
Reliable wireless Broadband Internet;
good mobile phone coverage;
solar power and huge 10 kva diesel generator ensuring you will have as much power as you will ever need. Most of the time the solar panels and batteries satisfy your power needs.
Rainwater tanks - 20,000 gallons / 91,000 litres (drinking water)
Grey water re-use - plenty of water for gardens
Gladstone has several flights per day to Brisbane - 1 hour flight time to Brisbane
house built in 2005.
3 large bedrooms
master bedroom with ensuite
Office
In house laundry
open plan living
kitchen - gas cooking and plenty of storage
front and back verandas
massive garage underneath the home (ideal for storing boats and vehicles)
small boat harbour for safe anchorage
suitable deep water mooring just off the beach - look out at your boat.
You can take being off the grid one more step if you wish - the current owner has a very productive hydroponic garden and were self-sufficient in tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicum, herbs and lettuce.
Establish fruit trees include lemon, orange, paw paw, passionfruit, mulberries, sweet potato.

The island lifestyle and harbour views make this one of the hottest properties to hit the market this year.

This property is ideal for a Professional wanting to work remotely or for a family wanting a weekender/ holiday house or retirement living

INTERESTED IN A FANTASTIC ISLAND LIFESTYLE?

Call the marketing Agent: Steven James on 0439 111 197