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The Long Table

One table, twenty-four places, one sitting at seven. You will be next to somebody you have not met, which some people like and some people do not.

Dinner

Three courses, no choice, written up on the board in the hall by eleven in the morning. If you cannot eat something, tell us at breakfast and the kitchen will cook you the same meal without it. We do not do a second sitting and we do not take bookings from outside the house.

The fish comes off the boats at the marina and changes with what they catch. In the wet season that is mostly mackerel and coral trout. The vegetables come from Bowen, forty minutes up the road, which is why there are tomatoes on the table from May to November and why there are not in February.

Breakfast

From six until half past nine, laid out on the same table. Bread, fruit, yoghurt, eggs cooked how you ask, and a pot of tea or coffee brought to you rather than left to stew. People going out on boats eat at six and people who are not eat at nine, and both work.

The bar in the hall

Open from four in the afternoon. Beer from Townsville and Cairns, wine mostly from South Australia, and a short list of spirits. It closes at eleven, which is earlier than the gaming room, and that is deliberate.

Plan of the Long Table One table runs the length of the room with twelve places on each side. A servery stands at each end and four doors open onto the lawn along the south side. one table, 24 places servery servery four doors to the lawn
Twenty-four places, two serveries, and the doors to the lawn on the long side.

Gaming happens in one room of this house and nowhere else. The Tevaiora Room takes no bets online, holds no accounts and processes no payments through this website.