Come and experience nature at its best with Gill & Eunice Campbell on a working cattle station, family run for over a century. We offer powered and unpowered campsites, suitable for tents, swags and caravans. Enjoy full access to toilets and hot showers. Kids and pets welcome, as long as they're friendly and vaccinated. Claravale has a resident cattledog who will visit you during your stay. Guests
are welcome for a night or longer, and we may be able to cater for larger groups. please call us to discuss your needs. On arrival Gil will welcome you with an introductory presentation, sharing his appreciation for mother nature, some of the treasures found on the property, and his unique style of cattle management borne of his interest in ecology. For the adventurous guest, we offer full day or half day fully guided 4WD tours of the property. A homemade smoko is provided, and lunch for the long tour. Stand in awe at the panoramic views on the southern most spur of the Canarvon Range. The road to the property is a combination of sealed and unsealed. Dry weather permits easy access to cars and caravans, but in wet weather the road may only be passable by 4WD. Please call to confirm road conditions prior to departure. We have a landline phone, but there is no mobile phone reception or Wifi. Please make your arrangements before you come out and switch off. Due to the lack of reception please bring cash or organise to prepay before coming out, thank you. Bookings must be made in advance. Please call to book and discuss prices. Best time to call is early morning and late afternoon, if no answer please leave a message.
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Gill Campbell's mission statement: Number one commitment must be to soil health, through pasture management. With soil health comes water infiltration, coupled with retention ability, hence the flow on effect to the health and quality of the flora that grows off that soil, hence the health and quality of beings that live directly or indirectly off that flora. Hence, all the different facets of life are connected, direct or indirect, to soil health. In particular, holistic environment health, which denotes long term sustainability (i.e. not decades, but centuries at least). There is ample information on past societies that were so successful that their populations got into the thoudands for a couple of thousand years and then died out. Through degradation of the environment, they lost their ability to grow their own food and lost materials for building. In some cases two thousand years on, these areas are still waste lands. European style management has only been used in Australia for 150 to 200 years maximum and anyone who thinks our landscape and soils are just as healthy as ever have their head in the sand. In so many areas, huge amounts of money and effort are being poured into just patching up symptoms and not fixing the problem (which is degradation of the environment).
