Moralana Station at Hawker, South Australia for sale

Moralana Station has hit the market and is being sold on a walk-in walk-out basis with about 388 Angus and Hereford cattle, 3900 Merinos and a lengthy list of plant and equipment.

Fully modernised: Profits have been ploughed back into upgrading Moralana Station near the Flinders Ranges.

THE craggy ridges of South Australia’s Flinders Ranges do much more than simply look pretty alongside Moralana Station, 43km north of Hawker.

They also create significant areas of flood-out country on the property, adding to its clear assets of productive land systems, abundant water, well-developed livestock handling infrastructure and generous accommodation.

HAWKER

MORALANA STATION

PROPERTY: grazing

SIZE: 62,133ha

SALE: auction at the Standpipe Motor Inn, Port Augusta, October 24 2pm

PRICE: $6 million-plus for land, plus livestock and plant and equipment

AGENT: Landmark Harcourts Port Augusta

CONTACT: Tim Wooley, 0427 086 020, or Simon McIntyre, 0407 843 202

To be sold on a walk-in walk-out basis with about 388 Angus and Hereford cattle, 3900 Merinos and a lengthy list of plant and equipment, the station lies to the east of Lake Torrens and 450km north of Adelaide. Average carrying history over the past nine years has been 753 cattle and 4083 sheep.

Agent Simon McIntyre said the current owner bought Moralana Station in 2010 from the University of Adelaide.

“It was well-presented when he got it, but he has ploughed all profits back into the property,” Mr McIntyre said.

Moralana Station at Hawker, South Australia.

“Among his improvements have been structural changes to the shearing shed, extensive rewiring, modernising all the accommodation, renovating and extending fences, yards and roads and upgrading access to water.

“The property’s in a highly strategic position, being on the western edge of the Flinders Ranges, with rainfall run-off turbo-charging aquifers and creeks across the station.

“In terms of station properties, flood-out country is the best you can buy.

“There’s no money to be spent — just move in and run it — but it also represents an ideal tourism opportunity for anyone wishing to add further value.”

The terrain is principally flat with some hill country and vegetation includes cannonball, munyeroo, bluebush, saltbush, button grass, acacia, mulga and native clovers with red gums in the creek lines.

Moralana Station at Hawker, South Australia.

The Moralana, Ilka, Etowie and Bunyeroo Creeks all run through or on to the station.

Working infrastructure includes a lockup implement shed, six sets of cattle yards, six-stand shearing shed, eight sets of sheep yards, an old stone lockup, 900m airstrip and renovated shearers’ quarters consisting of eight bedrooms, meat house, pantry, kitchen, dining room and cook’s quarters.

Accommodation comprises one four-bedroom residence with office and outdoor cellar, a three-bedroom overseer’s cottage and two-bedroom jackaroos’ quarters, all serviced by pressurised water systems.

There are 17 bores equipped with seven windmills and 10 solar-powered submersible pumps. Annual rainfall has averaged 218mm since 1980.