Australia’s Southern Ocean Lodge Is Reborn

Southern Ocean Lodge, the dramatic retreat that set the bar for small luxurious properties in Australia, reopened at present on the wild and windswept Kangaroo Island off the nation’s southern coast. The Lodge opened in 2008 on a dramatic bluff, going through the relentless Southern Ocean surf under. Fabled amongst luxurious vacationers, bushfires decimated it in 2019 and 2020. After three years of rebuilding, the lodge has been reborn.

South Ocean Lodge is the brainchild of legendary Australian hoteliers and designers James and Hayley Baillie, founding father of Baillie Lodges. The husband-and-wife workforce additionally created such landmark Australian resorts as Silky Oaks Lodge within the Daintree Rainforest, Longitude 131 at Uluru, and Capella on Lord Howe, all members of Luxurious Lodges of Australia. Not surprisingly, there was monumental anticipation and buzz concerning the reopening of Southern Ocean Lodge in Australia and past.

“We dedicated to rebuilding our flagship property moments after we stepped onto the nonetheless—smoldering website again in January 2020,” stated Hayley Baillie. “There was by no means a doubt from our facet. We really feel very lucky to have needed to very enthusiastic assist of our visitors and our buddies from all over the world. The Lodge was a spot to step away from the busyness of on a regular basis life, to spend time with family members. Southern Ocean Lodge all the time was a really particular place that provided visitors an actual expertise of the wildly lovely Kangaroo Island.”

The lodge’s authentic architect, Max Pritchard, designed the rebuilt property, alongside together with his companion Andrew Gunner.

“As a neighborhood South Australian, Max introduced a lot of his data of the panorama to the unique design,” Baillie stated. “Now now we have had an opportunity to make some intelligent design adjustments whereas retaining the weather our visitors cherished finest within the first iteration of the luxurious lodge. It’s a really uncommon alternative to have. The brand new lodge retains the identical footprint as the unique, however now we have taken this opportunity so as to add some thought of extras, together with a pool on the Nice Room Terrace and the Southern Spa now contains a gymnasium, three therapy rooms, a sauna and cold and warm plunge swimming pools that look out throughout the coastal heath. The addition of the ultra-premium Ocean Pavilion presents visitors an much more unique expertise of the clifftop website.”

The brand new Southern Ocean Lodge has virtually the identical footprint as the primary, with 25 luxurious visitor suites alongside the shoreline. All eating, drinks, and signature experiences are included within the fee, as they had been within the authentic. The brand new Ocean Pavilion has been designed to supply a single proprietor’s residence that can be utilized as two separate suites to create the final word hideaway for households and buddies touring collectively. The 6,888-square-foot Ocean Pavilion follows the “proprietor’s residence” fashion pavilions which are signature options of the Baillie Lodges portfolio. They’re set other than the opposite buildings, with a distant really feel, providing privateness and uninterrupted views of the Southern Ocean.

The hallmarks that distinguish all Baillie Lodges are current right here. The menus function native meals, premium components, and native drinks. Every property has a neatly curated show of native artworks and designs, together with First Nations artworks. Every lodge’s structure is designed to supply visitors a private encounter with the panorama, so you’ve the sense that the skin is welcomed in.

Sustainability is on the core of the design of the brand new Southern Ocean Lodge. The newest incarnation shall be 25% extra energy-efficient than the unique, because of cutting-edge applied sciences employed to spice up water seize and a photo voltaic battery hybrid vitality system. A buffer of fire-retardant native succulents and Kangaroo Island’s native juniper have been planted.

Then there’s the setting. All Baillie Lodges have a singular sense of place. Whereas Australia is full of superb locations, Kangaroo Island is extraordinary, famous Baillie. “There are unbelievable, wild landscapes, the nice icy-blue Southern Ocean that adjustments continually, and the vary of Australian native wildlife that wander freely of their pure setting,” she stated. “The island has coined the time period, a ‘zoo with out fences’ and has been referred to as Australia’s Galapagos. You may encounter kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, echidnas, fur seals, and sea lions inside a brief keep. You permit Southern Ocean Lodge having seen an enormous number of wildlife thriving simply as nature supposed.”

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