Cape Jervis Big 4 Holiday Park listed for sale

Big 4 Holiday Park Cape Jervis 9351 Main South Road, Cape Jervis

A caravan park located at the gateway to one of the world’s top tourist destinations provides a comfortable lifestyle with plenty of opportunity for further expansion.

Former station owners Anthony and Sally Miles purchased the Big 4 Holiday Park at 9351 Main South Road, Cape Jervis in 2010, when it had just six camp sites and six motel-style rooms.

Having transformed it into unique farm stay accommodation, with almost 100 powered and unpowered camp sites, six self-contained cottages and more than 20 rooms, the couple are now looking to retire and keen for someone else to take over the picturesque 47-hectare property.

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Sitting on the doorstep of Kangaroo Island, the property provides buyers with a chance to invest in some 47 hectares, across two Titles on the Southern tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula.

The property features onsite restaurant facilities and liquor licence.

The Holiday Park is contained on its own title, and features original stone buildings, dating back to the 1830’s.

An onsite restaurant, with a liquor licence, was shut down during the pandemic but Mr Miles says it could be reopened almost immediately.

There’s also a stone barn function centre with a commercial kitchen.

“We’ve got to the point where we don’t want to work as hard as we used to but there’s still heaps of opportunity to really punch things up,’’ Mr Miles says.

“We would really like to see that (restaurant) come back. Apart from the people that were staying with us, we always had a lot of the locals use it for special events – lots of birthdays and things like that.

“There’s plenty of land and plenty of potential to keep on expanding things. This place is really only limited by your imagination.’’

Cape Jervis is best known as the departure point for ferry services to Kangaroo Island, named by Lonely Planet as the second must-visit region in the world.

But the country town, a little more than 100km from Adelaide, is also a tourist attraction in its own right, boasting some of the best views of the dramatic Fleurieu Peninsula coastline.

There are 43 powered camping sites and 50 unpowered camping sites.

The property also features a mixture of holiday accommodation, including six self-contained cottages, 11 rooms with ensuites, seven twin-share rooms and five queen rooms.

The holiday park is for sale as a turn-key asset.

Mr Miles estimates 60 per cent of the park’s visitors are travelling to and from Kangaroo Island but there’s also a steady stream of others, including keen fishers.

Daily feeding sessions of the park’s cattle, sheep, horses, emus, kangaroos and guinea fowl are popular among tourists – although Mr Miles says the emus have caused upsets in the past.

“We used to let them roam the park but they had a habit of reaching inside the caravans and picking up the keys, which annoyed some people,’’ Mr Miles says.

“Now they’re kept (in fully-fenced paddocks) with the other animals.’’

The property is set over two titles, which can be sold separately or together.

The holiday park, with original stone buildings dating back to the 1830s, is contained on one title, while a stand-alone title has access and power.

The sale is being handled by Colliers, with expressions of interest closing on Thursday, August 22.

– By Lauren Ahwan