Maylands Farm
Parawa,
Fleurieu Peninsula,
South Australia		  
     
  Maylands Farm is at Parawa on the top of the ridge of the Fleurieu Peninsula between 300 and 350 metres above the Great Southern Ocean visible eight kilometres in the South. Maylands Farm has views to the Page Islands and Kangaroo Island from nearly every paddock.

Receiving one metre of rain annually Maylands Farm is one of the coolest and wettest locations in South Australia.

In 1802 Nicolas Baudin and Mathew Flinders sailed together off this coast and it is after the Comte de Fleurieu who sponsored Baudin’s explorations that this beautiful peninsula is named.

150 years after Baudin and Flinders the South Australian Government sold the land in the 1950’s, allowing the native vegetation to be cleared for agriculture. Fortunately stands of native vegetation were left across Maylands Farm as well as in the gullies and creeks.

The old remnant plateau at the highest points of the Fleurieu Peninsula is underlain by sandstone and ironstone, which has formed a sandy loam soil that is capable of growing succulent pastures all year round. The gentle hills rolling away to the Ocean in the south from the main Fleurieu ridgeline are intersected by valleys with spring fed running creeks, peat flats and the precious Fleurieu swamps with their unique flora and fauna.		  
 
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