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Thank you for visiting the McLeod Eco Farm & Historical Prison's General Information Page. |
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Thank you for visiting the McLeod Eco Farm & Historical Prison's General Information Page. |
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APOLOGY - Unfortunately, as time is always short, this page is still under construction. Please ring or e-mail me if you are desperate for some additional hard copy info and I will snail mail it to you ASAP. Regards Rod xxxx 61 03 9770 1822. (aussie@labyrinth.net.au)
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McLeod is
located on the south-east coast of French Island, Western
Port Bay, Victoria Australia. Access is by ferry from Stony Pt. near Hastings, Mornington Peninsula or Cowes, Phillip Island. The ferry trip takes approximately 12 to 15 minutes. (See "How to get there") |
Road transfers from Tankerton, through the French Island National Park, take approximately 25 minutes, over unmade roads. Some visitors like to cycle taking several hours to travel the 29 km, often coming across koalas, echidnas, blue tongue lizards, birds of prey, rare orchids, and many understory birds etc.
This is a great opportunity to soak in the atmosphere of the Island, "catch the French Island bug" (ie the isolation, scenery, nature, heritage etc) from your driver.
Satellite Image of the 270 hectares, (550 acres) illustrating the dams (good swimming), the pine tree forest, the beaches (16 km frontage). The eco farm and "prison" compound is marked (bottom left). Source: United Photo/AUSLIG 11 Dec 1992 |
McLeod Eco Farm & South Beach
"Prison" Compound., sports oval, golf course |
McLeod Eco Farm strive to provide a relaxing, entertaining and educational experience to guests from all walks of life and nationality.
In a low key manner, and by means of practising permaculture, bio-dynamics and other eco-farm "sciences", McLeod management hope share their knowledge of how natural solutions exist to counter modern environmental problems. To this end, it is hoped these practices will be better understood, and accordingly McLeod can contribute in its own small way, to successfully saving the planet from human self destruction.
4. Accommodation, Dining, Conferencing Facilities
The following picture story is a very brief attempt to show potential customers, the facilities, attractive surroundings and charasmatic atmosphere of the complex.
4a) Accommodation wings, Guest House, Toorak, Maximum Security: Note all wings offer shared facilities.
"Guest House" building, formerly the warders quarters. Includes self catering kitchen, separate dining room, lounge with fire place. |
"Deluxe" double room
Bay views |
"Deluxe" twin room |
 Toorak" Cell Block - 35 twins |
Interior of a "Toorak" Cell |
Self Catering kitchen, Toorak Cell block. (Photo future) |
Maximum Security" 8 x 6 bed family rooms, 4 x twins |
Typical 6 bed (bunks) room |
Typical family room with double bed and up to 6 bunks (ie total 8) |
5. The surrounding National Park
