676 Cable Bay Road, Cable Bay, Nelson

Seafront paradise - transform your life!

Not only a beautiful bush-clad sea-frontage property but a sleek, appealing home for easy living (state-of-the-art tech), a tranquil, delightful, cossetting oasis from where you can soak up the sounds of birdlife and the sight of sea, hillsides and the mesmerizing colours of dawn and sunset. This very contemporary property was only completed late last year.

From your jetty, launch the kayak for a morning paddle or watch the kingfishers on the rock in front of the house as they eye up a crab dinner. Cable Bay is renowned for its extraordinary, laid-back seaside lifestyle where the tides and weather influence your daily activity choices, rather than traffic and clock-watching, just 20 minutes easy drive from town.

The striking two-level, three-bedroom house, two-bathroom is built to endure with deep, rock footings. It blends with the bush with its off-black vertical, Colorsteel cladding with cedar features and its two gabled pavilions. Picture windows frame views of bush and sea and sliding doors and windows open the house to the aromas of sea and bush.

Its location is one of the Bay's best, fronting the inlet with easy access to the foreshore and beach. The vista is wide and long. Pepin Island farmland with grazing sheep is directly across the estuary and, further, south, is Delaware Bay and the Marlborough Sounds border of steep hillsides and rock cliffs.

The owners of four years are reluctantly leaving, having built this stunning home, and investing a huge amount of work on the garden and natural landscaping. Hundreds of native shrubs and trees abound with wonderful rocks and wide pathways. Access from top to foreshore is easy.

For those who crave a peaceful seafront life on the edge of wilderness but with all the comforts, this magical house and garden may be your dream property.