Nicole O’Connor is the first to admit that all her visions of a quiet country life have evaporated since she and her husband, Michael, bought Coonghoongbula station near Dalgety on the banks of the Snowy River in southern NSW.
“We’re skiers and we had a holiday house at Tyrolean Village near Jindabyne, so we weren’t strangers to the area,” Nicole explains. “But we’ve been so busy ever since we moved down here that I think we managed only one day on the slopes last winter. The whole notion of a slower life in the country is a bit of a
