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JUNE OPIE COTTAGE
June Opie Cottage offers
affordable accessible tourist accommodation for wheelchair travellers.
This cottage, which sleeps up to 7
people, has been specially modified for wheelchair guests.
It is fully self-contained with private facilities and a direct
view of Queens Lake. The cottage consists of two bedrooms,
a bathroom, lounge and kitchen. Access is via a ramp and the view
from the deck across Queens Lake is unique. Blankets and pillows
are supplied, linen and towels are available for hire.
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June, an author and polio victim, was a long
term resident of Christmas Cove Caravan Park. She was confined to
a wheelchair and lived in this cottage with its prime position overlooking
Queens Lake.
June inspired people worldwide
with her tireless work on behalf of people with disabilities. She
died in 1999, leaving behind her a legacy of determined independence and
individualism that is clearly portrayed in her best selling book, Over
My Dead Body and its sequel, Over My Dead Body 40 Years On.
Since her death, June's cottage
has been modified and modernised to create a facility especially adapted
for wheelchair living.
From $65 to $100 per night for
2 adults
| "I
am a double amputee and I found June Opie Cottage to be very
accessible. It was wonderful, thank you."
"We
have a daughter with cerebral palsy and this has been the
first accommodation in 3 weeks which has made showering her
easy. Thank you so much" |
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June Opie Cottage
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Special Features
of the Cottage
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Outside
- Ramp 1 metre wide with a 1.14 gradient
- Attached
covered carport 3.5 metres wide with room for getting into
a wheelchair
- Front door access is
800mm sliding door
- Glass in front door has safety markings
- Front door is ramped for easy access
Lounge
- TV placed low for
easy access to control
- Room to manoeuvre a
wheelchair
- Wide 1.5 metre entrance through
to kitchen
Hallway
Main Bedroom
- Sliding door 820mm wide
- Bed 480mm high (lower
than normal) with 250mm access beneath and compressed matress
- Touch lamps
- Light switch lowered for easy access
- Small dressing table with underneath
space and mirror 820mm from floor
- Distance between bed and wall 1.45
metres to accommodate a wheelchair
- Distance from end of bed to window
900mm
- All windows low enough to see out
from a wheelchair
- Wardrobe with low hanging rail for
easy access
Second Bedroom
- Sliding door 900mm
wide
- Bunk with double bed bottom and
single top
- Plenty of space beside bed, 150mm
beneath bed
- Wardrobe with low hanging rail for
easy access
- Open shelving for clothes
Kitchen
- Refrigerator with large handles
for easy opening
- Sink with lever action tap at front
- Room for wheelchair
under sink and stove with barrier to protect against contact with
hot pipes
- Large drawers for crockery, cutlery
and saucepans for easy access
- Power points for jug, toaster and
air conditioner within easy reach
- Accessible microwave
Bathroom
- Wide open door with ramped entrance
for easy accessain for extra space
- Sliding door with alternative curt
- An "open plan" wheel in
design shower
- Mobile shower chair available
- Capstan taps and portable adjustable
shower head
- Fittings within easy reach
- Grab rails near toilet and shower
- Space beside toilet for a wheelchair
to reverse in
- Toilet paper holder within easy
reach
- Regular toilet, raised toilet seat
available
- Low mirror
- Wash basin with leg room beneath
and lever action taps
- Towel rings and hooks within easy
reach
LINEN AND TOWELS PROVIDED
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| "The
cottage suited my needs like no other holiday cottage I've been
in. You have done a marvelous job, for which many disabled
folk will be so grateful. I have never met anyone who cared enough and
has done so much to provide a suitable place so the disabled could
have a holiday feeling they were coping and enjoying their holiday
like a "normal" person" |
For further information on
resources for people with disabilities, check out www.e-bility.com.au
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