Shane Laidlaw (ILF 2021)
When you think about staying in what is effectively a shipping container in a far-flung paddock on Kangaroo Island, it probably doesn’t sound particularly appealing to most … but this is no ordinary shipping container.
This is a CABN, or, more specifically, a CABN X. Think your own private sauna, outdoor bath on the deck, luxefurnishings and tasty produce to enjoy. All of a sudden this shipping container is sounding – and looking – a lotmore enticing.
This is also no ordinary far-flung paddock.
We’re at Cape St Albans, towards the eastern tip of Kangaroo Island, a stone’s throw from Cape Willoughby andits iconic lighthouse.
It’s practically deserted – aside from the kangaroos and birdlife – and is accessed via a 30-minute drive fromPenneshaw, mostly on dirt, after disembarking from the SeaLink ferry. You could say it’s pretty isolated.
The paddock this luxury CABN has been dropped into was formerly a farm and is blessed with an idyllic viewlooking north-northwest over Antechamber Bay and into Backstairs Passage, with SA’s mainland to the eastand KI to the west. It’s a view too good to only be enjoyed by sheep.
Herein lies the ingredients that were part of the impetus behind South Australia’s Michael Lamprell establishing CABN back in 2017.