As part of your stay with us ~ you can choose to be lovingly pampered. Belinda Barry from Native Indulgence is a blessing to have as part of our team here at Nightfall. An experienced and qualified therapist. Belinda's skills include massage, clinical aromatherapy, reconnective healing, and...
We are proud to be a part of Eat Local Scenic Rim accommodation category. We promise to authentically provide food and drinks from the local Scenic Rim....
Eat Local Scenic Rim has invited us to become an accredited "Locavore" being a part of the "Eat local every week" accommodation section. Which means that Steve and Jaide (your Nightfall hosts) will be exploring and tasting new local produce to add to the Nightfall...
Jaide has been an active part of the Nightfall team since September 2015 bringing to the site a bundle of talents. She has a real passion for health, wellbeing and the environment with a strong desire to live sustainably and simply. Being a local girl and growing...
Hello everyone, As you may have noticed its been just over 3 years since our last blog post! Wow, how time flies! Nightfall has undergone many changes in this time period, including the completion of 5 luxury glamping tents, an upgrade of the creekside lounge and...
Reflecting On The Life Of Mr … Nightfall’s Chief Entertainer Was Buried August 2018, At The Ripe-Old Age Of Almost 16. If you’ve visited nightfall you’ll be hard-pressed to forget Mr, our resident Jack Russell with his insatiable talent for finding the soft-spot in your...
"Take me to a quiet place with earth under our backs, cradled in a forest glade. There we will point out things we see and acknowledge those things we do not. In solitude we take in the wisdom offered in each other and take in...
What an honour it was for Nightfall to be named the Silver winner for New Tourism Development at last Friday night's Queensland Tourism Awards. The award is a benchmark for industry excellence - an accolade we're very proud of, especially when we still only consider ourselves in 'guinea-pig'...
Wow, time flies! It’s almost eight months since Nightfall began taking ‘guinea pig‘ road-test guests to fine-tune our Queensland luxury camping (glamping) experience and the identity of our wilderness camp....
There's nothing nicer than taking the afternoon off for adventure and many of our first guests have commented about the special feel of Nightfall's Platypus Pond, not far from the camp's main lounge and swimming hole....
No, Nightfall's guinea-pigs are not the hairy little critters some keep as pets: they are our first glamping guinea-pig guests who, over the past few weeks, have generously offered feedback and a myriad of inspirational thoughts as they experience Nightfall's new luxury camp on the...
Did you know Nightfall does gift vouchers? They've been going like hotcakes for the last few weeks. Presented as a square card, they're impressive to receive in the mail. Try our wilderness immersion experience, our wildly romantic retreat or just a night away. All vouchers are valid...
There's nothing like death to remind us of our impermanence. And so it is that a cloud hangs over Nightfall and our close-knit Lamington community, with the sudden passing of our dear friend and neighbour, Graham. Our thoughts are with his partner Nell and their...
She's got big dark eyes, thick lashes, long muscular legs and hilariously oversized feet. As a petite example of Australian wildlife, she's also a breath of fresh air in the intense moments building Queensland's newest luxury camping experience. Welcome 'Lilly Pilly' (named after the trees so...
'Pick me, pick me!' There's a child in all of us and, yes, we're guilty of indulging in a little horsing-around, while building Nightfall's luxury tent accommodation on the banks of Christmas Creek beside Lamington National Park. This week laughter was intercepted with squeals, as...
Dusk and the starry-night sky are perfect for time-lapse photography, except when you have high winds. Such was the evening we chose to trial some shots of a Nightfall luxury tent - they're far from perfect, but the test images give us an idea...
(image: Etienne, Kirsty, Steve and 'Mr' in the creek rapids at Nightfall - quite the place for workers to spend summer lunchtimes) The weather gods are smiling on Nightfall. As the days fly by we're making great headway, completing the last critical jobs before the coming...
Overcome the challenges. Repeat. ad infinitum. Yes, the building process certainly teaches patience, both on our part and that of the wonderful guests, waiting for the opening of Nightfall's Gold Coast Hinterland luxury camping experience. It's great to hear you're excited because we are too! We've...
(image: relaxing in Nightfall's private section of Christmas Creek - these sun-filled days of swimming are almost back) Main tent footings poured, tick; water pipes laid into trenches, tick; lower trench filled, tick; insulation into the roof of guest tent one, tick; trees trimmed over solar...
(image - road-testing Nightfall's proto-type 'swag' bed, under the stars, beside our main campfire) In the quest to craft the ultimate authentic Australian wilderness accommodation experience, it's hard to go past the simple pleasure of sleeping outside, with nothing between you and the spectacular star-filled night...
"To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world" U.S novelist Charles Dudley Warner Nights under star-filled skies, roaring camp fires, beautiful wines and the distinctive flavours of flame-grilled and slow-cooked camp-oven food … ah, the simple pleasures, which...
(image - the first rough draft of Nightfall's hand-drawn guest map) The overwhelming desire to capture a moment of magical light on a landscape is something most people are familiar with. There are many days I've wished I had the skills to translate, with water-colours onto...
“We plunged through a green doorway, as sudden as from light into darkness and into the jungle itself where the trees rose in moss-covered columns, some green, some grey, some mottled, some rough, others smooth, some twisted and distorted, others straight and stately, all to...
I spy with my little eye something beginning with T … it's Treasure from nature, perfect for building our unique Queensland Accommodation. Yes, with each significant creek flood at Nightfall wilderness camp comes a trove of flotsam and jetsam - jewels in all shapes and form,...
Imagine finding a fish species that's never before been seen in your part of the world. Yes, it was excitement all round, as the scientists who visited the Scenic Rim's Nightfall wilderness camp explained their discovery in the headwaters of Christmas Creek, close to where...
'Are we there yet?' Almost! The last six months of building Nightfall's newest Queensland luxury camping experience in the rain have certainly been a challenge, but we are finally heading into the final stretch … if the weather will hold off a little. A quick study...
Rain runs off the roof of a Nightfall luxury tent Time flies when you're busy. It's been two weeks since our last diary entry and, despite lots of rain days, we're making slow but steady progress building Nightfall's new luxury tent accommodation on the edge...
(image courtesy: Glossy Black Conservancy) It's a rare privilege to live in an off-the-beaten track Australian wilderness, close to a capital city, so, in-spite of the busyness of building Nightfall's luxury tent accommodation, we're always keen to be involved in activities which help protect the environment...
(image L to R: Nightfall hosts Heidi and Steve Ross; Wwoofers Gionvanni and Alberta Vicario, Anna Haselroth) If you're a regular reader of our 'building Nightfall' diary, you'll appreciate the construction of Australia's newest luxury camping experience has been long and drawn out, not helped by...
Raw simplicity is Nightfall wilderness camp's ethos, so it was entirely fitting to last week use old-fashioned people power, and not a machine, to progress construction of Australia's newest luxury camp accommodation experience at Lamington, in the Scenic Rim, 90 minutes drive from Brisbane and...
Stone-carved hand basins and cast-iron rotating wood fires - just a few of the wonderful deliveries to Nightfall this week as we continue building a one-of-a-kind luxury camp, perfect for a romantic weekend getaway near Brisbane. Steve and I had been a little...
As I began to write this diary update late yesterday, we rejoiced in a short-lived moment of sunshine. The cliff face in front of Nightfall's new staff tent glowed strikingly gold in the dusk light, the mist swirled around its rugged rocky face and the...
Exciting news for Nightfall today. Our luxury camp is one of three Queensland tourism business' selected for mentoring, as part of Tourism Australia’s Green Cauldron National Landscape Experience Development Program. It's a unique opportunity to work with industry experts, developing a world-class experience for Nightfall guests...
There's nothing quite so good as recovering one's mojo - and today it happened for Nightfall's construction team. After 50 rain days in a row, this morning under magnificent blue skies, out came the mower, the welder and the sewing machine. Together in the sunshine,...
(photo: orange-eyed tree frog, Litoria chloris -part of the Queensland wildlife in Nightfall's kitchen garden) And the rain continues to fall, as it's done for weeks and weeks now. The building of Nightfall's luxurious new tent accommodation remains at a standstill and most days it's even...
Wow! Nightfall wilderness camp is surrounded by waterfalls, cascading down from Lamington National Park. As I stand looking out of our partly built 'staff tent', the cliff-face opposite is steeped in swirling mists. Torrents of white water dramatically gush down the exposed rugged escarpment. The thick...
Image: Nightfall's 'beach' - soon to have a day bed for relaxing by the creek, as you would at the coast, but without the crowds. 'The beach' is also a lovely spot for a romantic candlelit dinner The weeks are flying by and piece by...
For a while now we've dreamed of establishing a luxury tented camp on our magical property beside Lamington National park. The years it's taken to achieve all the necessary development approvals have perhaps been a blessing - we've had plenty of time to fine-tune our...