Gorgeous old school turned guest house and restaurant for one-time title contender!
If Matt Wilkinson, the decidedly homely yet attractive one-time title contender, falls early at Pipe his WCT career is over.
Matt is thirty years old and rated 24th in the world, two places below the number 22 cut-off. A round of qualifying events seems unlikely to appeal. And, therefore, after the obligatory good cry, he will disappear from our lives.
Where to next?
In May, Matt and his girlfriend, Anna Jordan, spent $3.2 million on the gorgeous Possum Creek school house, which had subsequently been rebuilt and turned into a $1500 a night guest house, out the back of Byron Bay.
Let’s poke a little into its Air BnB listing.
Just 10 minutes from the beaches of Byron Bay, Friday Hut Road Estate is a stunning hinterland property consisting of a luxurious 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home with a private cinema, and a charming riverfront Boat House with 1 bedroom, plus living area, kitchenette, bathroom and 2 large balconies.
The Estate is spread over 2 acres of cascading green lawns that lead down to our own private section of Possum Creek. This babbling river has pristine waters and is even home to a resident platypus.
The lawns of the Estate offer incredible views of the valley, and there are various large open spaces for guests to set up picnics or outdoor dining. Our outdoor bungalow and bar area also has a wood fired pizza oven available for guest usage.
If you’re lucky – you might even meet our resident koala and her new baby who spend their time lazing about the Eucalyptus trees at the front of the property.
Reviews are uniformly positive.
“Welcome to paradise! This home exceeded all expectations! So private yet so close to town! Equipped with everything we needed for the perfect gathering on the grass. Pizza oven was such a nice touch. The home has a beautiful coastal, homely feel and it’s own private river bank, serious heaven!”
“I’ve stayed in quite a few properties around the Byron Hinterland and this was one of the best! The layout of the place is incredible, especially the beautiful boathouse situation just above the creek.”
As far as post-tour life goes, I think Matt has made several very good decisions.
Land, wife, ongoing income.
A sunset golden.
Free healthcare too (well, a 1.5% tax levy) – but you get ill, you don’t worry.
matt i found you a better deal, the old capricorn resort in yeppoon is up for sale , and just think youll be a few clicks down the road from surf lakes, a tropical oasis for professionals and surf media types, way better deal than possum creek, and the yeppoon locals will accept you as one of their own https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
US get out? Get real, never gonna happen until the milkshake gets drunk or the Middle East is rendered uninhabitable. The real game isn’t counter-terrorism and toppling despotic regimes, that’s just windrow dressing. It’s all about keeping parts of the region destabilized. Can’t have any of those Chinese and Russian-backed states getting their shit together, that’s bad for business!
yeah its called logan
just another blow in paying top dollar for a postcode , the last dick head to put possum creek on thew map was none other than paul ‘my crocs not big enough’ hogan. The market is soon to collapse and there will be no such thing as 20% return sorry matt you paid to much but i guess you’ll be like every city investor ,charge stupid rents because you paid a stupid price for it and make sure you keep supplies in your cupboard cause when it floods possum creek is a bitch to get out of the amount of city people i’ve rescued in floods on that road for driving across a creek for a fucking soya latte and a pack of smokes is ridiculous, and funny that the only other wilkinson in byron is a smack dealer
You really think war can end?
Its not gonna end
Its what animals do
Yes we are animals
And we gotta protect our own
Even the precious indigenous hacked each others heads off
You’ve got governors for that condolence stuff
Get all those Democrat billionaires to kick in for some preventative backburning in the winter
Trump is like bad tasting medicine
But you will get better.
Just forget those bleeding heart hypocrite liberals for a few more
Years
.please.!!
i hate australia. and i am not being sarcastic. majority are dumb as fuck whitebread aussies. scratch the surface and they are all racist rednecks. if that weren’t true they would have voted out those fuckers keeping people (including children) in concentration camps until trauma drives them insane. the camps being forced upon pacific island nations that rely on them for aid. they would have also done something to correct the deaths in custody of Indigenous people instead of spending all their time sipping lattes or boozing up on shitty craft beers made by ex and current pro surfers who know fuck all about beer. if your not white it is a shit fight.
What’s with the chicken?
The refugee thing has been the go-to argument starter every election since I can remember. Can we nip this conversation in the bud now before the comments section descends into chaos and we have to organise our own #kalamakamp to sweep up the mess?
not a chicken. it is a “funky called Modena pigeon”!
not gunna argue. no coversation to be had my friend. my mind is made up. i only have eyes for nz. xox
I’ll tell Negatron to make up the sofa bed.
I don’t know… the only difference between OZ and NZ in that respect is that you just have to scratch a little harder before you get those views expressed and when you do, they pour freely.
but they have gorgeous negs
We do and he is the most benevolent head judge the South Island Surfing Association has ever seen — fair, balanced and impervious to Russian influence.
You racist cunt
What the fuck have you done lately?
Sweet fuck all I’ll bet
You wingeing cunt
Go live with your non racist mates in kenya
No you won’t and we know exactly why you won’t.
Cause they’d fuck your white ass up over there.
shhhhh. back to you rock now.
God bless grandma
Nose beers?
I think you’ve come to the wrong website by mistake. I’m sure your comment will be much better received by your intended Biggots Grit audience
For a wave quality+quantity to crowds ratio, us saffas are even better off. I’ll regularly be surfing alone at my local spots that would probably have at least 20-30 guys on it in even the most remote parts of aus. Even in the cities we can still get good waves before work with just a handful of others. Also, our cricketers only embarrass us from time to time with regular old spot fixing and not by shoving sandpaper down their pants.
And girls in Cape Town, but then there’s the sharks and the corruption and an economy on a race to the bottom.
On the bright side those are all crowd control deterrents?
I’ve toyed with the idea of training some pet seals to accompany me in the lineup to minimise my odds of being investigated by the GWs. Also a source of food and clothing for the the economy hits rock bottom.
Oh look I feel almost insanely fortunate to be here. I never planned it, it was just how things fell. To be honest I can’t believe how lucky I’ve been, I should express it more often.
Fucken oath, we all should.
I’ve been all over
We’ve won the lottery
Unless your just a lazy wingeing cunt and there are getting to be a lot of that type
Wilko timed it to perfection too. Buy high, sell low right?
The RE market in Oz is falling off a cliff right now.
Down 10% already and hasnt even started.
this will not end well
I prefer the Ben Cousins approach to retirement. Snort everything you’ve earnt, followed by several stints in the can.
The gift that keeps on giving
cool house. who payed Wilko so much? he sucks!
The thing you want to remember is that Australia is a foreign country. Yes everyone speaks English mostly, the economy is sound, and Australia is physically big, but it truly is not the US. You would really have to be willing to spend a number of years slowly getting to know the bones of the place, human and otherwise. It SEEMS killer, and it is for a lot of Australians, but it’s not that simple.
Yep and those with anxiety depression – it is mind boggling the rate of that here in OZ too – again if there was same access to weapons prob we would have the same issues!!
Hear ya – but increasing weapons in society just populates radicals/ dumb cunts to take out people quickly!! This convos a minefield so not going there!
I will say this 1 strike you out – that is say a radical middle eastern ( massive generalisation) family member commits a crime – who have come to a country on a resettlement visa/ compassionate grounds/ war torn country etc etc. If they fuck up, commit a crime my belief is you send the whole family back to their homeland, even if they have had family born here. Send the whole lot back grandma, grandpa every single person in their family circle in said country fucks off back to origin – 1 strike you are gone. They could be Europeans as well I don’t care 1 strike gone. If countries had that as a deterrent maybe that is something a family unit is aware of and discusses, keeps people in line?? If they are truly coming for better life and opportunity i’m all for it – if they are here to be in enclaves, produce vile vitriol then fuck off back to your origins too!!
You just gotta vote for dudes who keep the shit out.
Not retarded fucks with false empathy guilt trips
That’s a great investment. Between the rental returns and capital gains Wilko is set. I just hope he got a pre-nup with his chick.
Capital losses