Carriage of Occasion

22/03/2025

Join us for a Horse Drawn High Tea

Delight in history, elegance, and tranquility on this unforgettable journey through our picturesque township off Strathalbyn, in our horse drawn carriage, while partaking in a delicious high tea.

Friday 28th March
11:00 or 12:15

Usually $150pp- these sessions are at the special price of $600 for whole carriage (up to 6 people)

22/03/2025

Helicopter??

What helicopter 😂

Magnificent day for a wine tour in Langhorne Creek wine region, regardless of tour mode of transport!!

21/03/2025

Horse training is as much of a mental challenge as it is a physical challenge.

Yesterday Luna and I did ‘the windmill block’- the 4.6 km loop, that we do on our hands on experience, with Luna pulling the big tyre.

She was eager, and forward, had a couple of looks at Roos, and things she hadn’t seen before, but then carried on. We had 3 cars pass us, and she was great.

I never actually achieved this with Boris. He would have little tanty meltdowns, and I never felt safe enough to ask for that step. It made me ‘fear’ asking Luna to do the windmill block, as all the ‘what if’s’ creep in.

(Let’s not mention that I do the windmill block with Henry and Angus regularly 😅)

But yesterday, I put on my big girl pants (and inappropriate walking footwear) and we did it. I was dripping with sweat, but overwhelmed with satisfaction, thinking about all of the fears we just trampled into the ground.

Overcoming the mental challenges is one of the hardest things, but it can only happen by taking the first step, and using that to gain momentum for the rest….

20/03/2025

Due to a cancellation, we have availability for a ‘Horse Drawn Wine Tour’ THIS SUNDAY!!

To fill the spot, I am offering it at the February special price of

$750 for up to 4 people

$1000 for up to 6 people

$1200 for up to 8 people

(Usually valued at $225pp)

This price isn’t bookable online, if youd like this spot, please send us a PM.

19/03/2025

Join us for a Horse Drawn High Tea

Delight in history, elegance, and tranquility on this unforgettable journey through our picturesque township, in our horse drawn carriage, while partaking in a delicious high tea.

Friday 28th March
11:00 or 12:15

Usually $150pp- these sessions are at the special price of $600 for whole carriage (up to 6 people)

19/03/2025

***MAD MARCH SPECIAL***

For the month of March, any online bookings for

*wine tours
*hands on
*long lunch
*budget friendlies

will receive an eye watering 30% off!!! (Travel can be anytime, doesn’t need to be in March)

Use the code MADMARCH to get the discount on checkout, this code is only valid until 31/3/25.

19/03/2025

We are so proud to take you to this amazing cellar door during our wine tours.

Kimbolton Wines go above and beyond to ensure their guests have a brilliant experience.

Have you visited our Award Winning Cellar Door? 🍷🥂🏆 It's such an honour to be recognised in this industry and bring these experiences to you! 🥰

🔹2025 Great Wine Capitals - Best of Wine Tourism | Joint winner - Wine Tourism Services Category

🔹2024 South Australian Tourism Awards - Excellence in Accessible Tourism | Bronze Award

🔹2023 South Australian Tourism Awards Winner - Wineries | Silver Award

🔹2023 Langhorne Creek Wine Show - Producer of the Year

🔹2023 Winner Tourism Collaboration Excellence | Grapes for Good & Zoos SA, Adelaide South Australia | Best of Wine Tourism Awards

🔹2022 Australian Tourism Awards - Tourism Wineries, Distilleries, Breweries | Highly Commended

🔹SA Life Absolute Best 2022 Awards | Absolute Best Family Day Out - Finalist

🔹2022 South Australia Tourism Awards Winner - Best Winery, Brewery, Distillery | GOLD Award

🔹2022 South Australia Tourism Awards Finalist - Tourism Wineries, Breweries, Distilleries

🔹2022 Langhorne Creek Wine Show - Producer of the Year

🔹Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine - 2022 Australia's Best Cellar Door Awards | STAR Cellar Door & Best Small Cellar Door - Langhorne Creek

🔹2021 South Australian Tourism Awards Winner - Best Winery, Brewery, Distillery | Silver Award

🔹2021 South Australian Tourism Awards Finalist - Tourism Wineries, Breweries, Distilleries

🔹Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine - Best Small Cellar Door - Langhorne Creek 2021

🔹SA Great Wine Capitals - Winner of the 2020 Best of Wine Tourism Awards, Architecture & Landscape category

19/03/2025

Who doesn’t love a bit of colour?!?!

We’ve added to our plume collection. We’ve had a small range of individual colours for ages, but now, we have a big range, and we can mix colours!

Plumes colour can be mixed and matched for
*wedding theme
* footy colours
* country flag colours on a final journey
* what ever it is, that is important to you.

If you have us booked for a fancy event, let us know which colour you’d love!!

18/03/2025

After 17 years of waiting, I FINALLY have a tack shed 😁😁😁

The wash bay is getting there (just no water yet😂)

I still need to deck out the inside, and work out how to lay it out… but the hard bit is done! Many thanks Dale, it is great!

18/03/2025

🐴 Soothe your soul with a horse drawn wine tour 🍷or join us for a hands on experience ✋

so many options to get your fill of horsey goodness ☺️☺️☺️ check out what’s on offer here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

https://carriageofoccasion.rezdy.com/catalog/527744/tours

17/03/2025

5 years ago, taking my magical unicorns for a spin on St Patrick’s Day 🦄🦄

17/03/2025

Shiney new float!!

Even the koala looks impressed 😂 it’s BIG, 2 horse straight load, very large payload, extended in every dimension. It’s even got our logo on it.

I hope the ponies like it 🤞🤞

16/03/2025

We’re currently East of Melbourne, to collect something very exciting!

We’ve taken a couple of days to get here, stopping at the National Trust Millicent Museum, to see the amazing Horse Drawn Collection in 38 degree heat, then today visiting the 12 apostles and Cape Otway Lighthouse in 12 degree’s and sideways rain.

Here is a happy snap from The Redwoods, near Beech Forest, which is just amazing, walking through the incredibly tall and old trees.

What do you think we are collecting??

15/03/2025

Check out my amazing new hat, from Hide & Horn Australia.

Customised to photos I sent through, and burned into a quality Thomas cook hat.

We were in Meningie this morning, so I was finally able to pick it up! I totally love it, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be visiting the store again soon, to buy some of the awesome things! Check out the video in the comments of how much cool stuff they have in the shop.

14/03/2025

25-30 years ago, I was a self funded, hopeless kid at pony club, who had a horse not suited to my level of knowledge or ability. It didn’t change much, in my early 20’s.

It would have been very easy to throw in the towel, and walk away from horses for good…

But there was this instructor, who didn’t care how unco you were. Who didn’t care that your gear was old, that you weren’t going to have a chance at ribbons the next competition.

He would find that spark, that one thing that you did good, and emphasise that. He would help you look past all of the bits that were terrible, and make you realise that you could do some things good.

It was because of Noel, that I didn’t give up all those years ago.

Today, Henry and Angus carried Noel on his final journey. Proudly wearing blue plumes, in honour of Noel’s years of service with SAPOL.

I hadn’t seen Noel in 17 years. In fact the last time I chatted to him, was the very first time I drove Calvin and the Victoria carriage into Strathalbyn.

I’m still feeling very blessed that I had the pleasure of knowing him, and receiving his guidance, all of those years ago.

Rest in Peace Noel. Thank you for your help getting me to where I am today.

Sincere condolences to Kay, and his family and friends.

13/03/2025

Join us for an Easter egg hunt of eggcellent proportion!

Good Friday (18/4/25) we will be running horse drawn Easter egg hunts around Strathalbyn.

You can either get per person seats in a shared carriage, adults $25 children $15 OR an exclusive use carriage for $150 (up to 8 adults - or extra people if they are small).

Booking links are in the comments.

12/03/2025

Exciting times for us today.

We put a cart on Luna for the first time. She was beyond AMAZING !!

I’ve got to make some modifications to my cart, before we can progress much more (shafts are too short for training, I did know that, but like the cart, so will just put longer shafts on it) but I wanted her to feel them, and feel the weight, and she didn’t flinch.

Nothing is connected, so we could get get her out of it quickly if she didn’t like it, but we needn’t have worried.

A long way to go before she is commercial ready, but I am so excited about this mare and her work ethic!