LAMONDS Lagoon Station, Mt Garnet, is being offered walk-in walk-out for $4.5 million including 2000 breeders and followers pluds station plant.
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Offered by Richard and Rebecca Burge the 26,453ha (66,339 acre), the pastoral holding is said to enjoying a terrific season and surplus grass.
Marketing agent Henry Slaney, Slaney and Co, Charters Towers, told Queensland Country Life that Lamonds Lagoon has a proven ability to run 3500 head of mixed cattle or 2000 breeders and followers. At present the property is estimated to possibly run more than 4000 mixed cattle.
"Lamonds Lagoon will appeal to graziers chasing grass or investors looking for a stocked and fully operational cattle station," Mr Slaney said.
The property is located 95km south west of Mt Garnet off the Gunnawarra Road, and 150km to Atherton.
Lamonds Lagoon is described as a mix of basalt soils, sandy and alluvial frontages and granite forest soils. There is about 2200ha frontage country along 10km of Burdekin River, 3500ha of brown and red basalt country along the western side of Anthill Creek, 8000ha of red soil fronting Walters Plains Lake and Badgers Creek. There is about 20km of sandy and alluvial country fronting the eastern side of Anthill Creek. Areas of granite and sandy soils are interspersed through the more elevated area and historical soil test results of the basalt soils suggest leucaena is a possibility.
The country is timbered with box, bloodwood, ironbark, Moreton bay, yellow stringy, scented gum, poplar gum, tea tree, lancewood, mahogany, blue gum and river gum. Pastures are dominated by black spear, kangaroo grass with prolific introduced species like Keppel bluegrass, Indian couch, Angleton grass, urachloa with a large presence of seca stylo. About 10ha has been dammed to form a pondage pasture area highly suitable for weaner management or fattening. In this area hymenachne, paragrass and couch proliferate and in this higher rainfall it is easy to see replication of the idea into a much more significant contributor on the property.
There are numerous watering points on the property including three dams, four bores and permanent waterholes in creeks, rivers, lagoons, springs and the lake. The Burdekin River has five channels and runs for 10km through the southern end of the property creating lagoons and permanent waterholes.
Walters Plains Lake is a feature of the property is about 28km in circumference. About two-thirds of the lake's frontage is in Lamonds Lagoon providing a semi-permanent water supply and good grazing as the water recedes.
Until Cyclone Yasi struck in February 2011 the property was fully boundary fenced and internally fenced into seven major paddocks and 10 holding paddocks. Since that time there has been an almost total re-build of fencing resulting in either upgraded fencing or totally new fencing. Today Lamonds has four major paddocks and eight smaller holding paddocks.
The homestead complex has two houses, machinery shed, 100 head cattle yards, hay shed and house dam.
Contact Henry Slaney, 0747 871 811, Slaney and Co, Charters Towers.
