Boondaburra BnB @Ruffy

Great rural setting and lovely, cheerful hosts. Abundant wildlife and great w@lking country.

Beautiful presentation and spotlessly clean. Don and Felicity are wonderful welcoming hosts. You feel really at home in this exquisitely tranquil spot with a lovely private garden setting.If you are looking to escape from your hectic life -this it . We can really recommend having just returned from a much needed refreshing weekend away .

We decided to get ahead of the recent long weekend pack and booked two nights at Boondaburra B&B at Ruffy, a small Victorian community at the western end of the Strathbogie Ranges on the Wednesday and Thursday nights. By the time we arrived at Boondaburra - an Indigenous word for platypus - our hosts had two fires going, one in a pit close to a sheltered patio, the other warming our comfortable and spacious open-plan accommodation. The property is a part-time farm and home to a variety of native birds, wombats and a few koalas and while exploring Boondaburra on foot is encouraged, you need to keep a lookout for the numerous wombat holes.After a good sleep and a few slices of fresh homemade bread, we set off in what we thought was the direction of Nagambie. Happily, we got lost, wending our way on unsealed roads through valleys studded with swift-flowing creeks and woodlands. Our unplanned adventure ended at Seymour and from there, we drove northwards along the Goulburn Valley Highway to Tahbilk Estate, where we had booked to be two of the 20 customers permitted at any one time in the winery's Wetlands View Restaurant. Another drive through lovely scenery, on sealed roads this time, took us back to Boondaburra for a second cosy evening. Back in Melbourne, we were content that we'd had our own long weekend consisting of two wonderful days that gave us just what the doctor ordered to blow the pandemic's cobwebs away.Rick and Maggie Grounds, Mount Waverley, VIC