Australian Country Homes

FELLOW TRAVELLERS

The old saying that you should never overlook what’s in your backyard has proven prophetic for Nathan Overell and his wife, Jodie, who are raising their young family in the rich pastoral and dairying country known as the Lost World Valley of southeast Queensland.

Nathan grew up in the spectacular hinterland region, which is bounded by mountains of the Scenic Rim, the wilderness of the Lamington National Park and has the upper reaches of the Albert River and Christmas Creek threading through

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