Coastal grazing land
WELL-KNOWN Mackay graziers, the Wright family, are reluctantly offering Constant Creek, their 675-hectare cane and cattle farm at Habana, just 20 minutes from Mount Pleasant shopping centre in North Mackay.
This property, with its 1650mm average annual rainfall, its direct boating access to the tidal Constant Creek and choice of elevated home sites overlooking views across the estuary out to the ocean, is attracting strong interest from western graziers looking for a hedge against the current prolonged drought.
A variety of the best species of lush tropical pastures are now well established to a good percentage of the grazing country, greatly enhancing the carrying capacity from its original native state.
Constant Creek won the Royal National Pasture block in 1983 and many cane and cattle prizes were awarded from the Mackay Show Society over the years. These prize winning exhibitions were grown on Constant Creek. The property is at present a winner as it has a good body of feed in what is proving to be one of
the driest and coldest winters for some time.
Cane growing was started in 1980 and before irrigation was installed on the property, in one year the crop averaged 127t/ha.
There is 61 hectares of irrigated cane production area, which could easily be expanded at minimal cost.
The modern underground irrigation layout reticulates water to the entire cultivated areas from a 100-megalitre dam and licence from the freshwater Martin’s Creek.
This layout is also designed to accommodate expansion at minimal cost.
This valuable property has been nurtured over the past 91 years to become the productive farm it is today.
It is rare to find such a diverse farming property so close to a coastal centre.