So, what is a Dufflebird?
It's a combination of two ideas we had on the journey to creating our business.
A Duffle Bag is a symbol of carefree experiences. Packed at the last minute and slung across your shoulders, before heading off in search of exciting adventures.
A Short-Flight Bird, doesn’t make a big fuss about going away, and doesn’t take kindly to travelling too far.
Somehow these two concepts got scrambled to create a word and web address that is tricky to explain over the phone.
Dufflebird. Travel light, fly away and leave the grind behind.
Dufflebird today
In 2020 when the world around us began to change, and our doors were forced to close, we were managing twelve properties. We embraced the time to pause, to ‘look under the hood’ and rediscover exactly what we set out to create and where reality had taken us. We made the decision to pare back our offering, reduce the number of properties we were managing, to focus on ‘doing more with less’. Whilst change can be difficult, our new direction has allowed us to evolve, and spend our days focusing on the parts of the business that truly light us up.
We are passionate about creating a canvas that invites you to have an exceptional, memorable experience and create stories of your own. We are aligned with dedicated owners, who choose to share their homes with our guests - each with something unique to offer, whether it’s the natural surroundings, unrivalled views or the history and stories that they have to tell.
The Dufflebird portfolio is now home to six diverse, regional properties in Victoria which we are incredibly proud to share with you. Liptrap Loft, Otways Loft and Steam Carriage are our Leslie Family properties. We also manage Bookmaker’s Cottage, Shellback and Shearwater Beach House. Visit our Properties, to learn more about the three in the Great Ocean Road hinterland, and three in the Walkerville region, towards Wilsons Promontory National Park.
Our intimate collection of properties have recently been featured online and in print across a number of special publications, we'd love to share them with you here - and hope that you too can experience all that Dufflebird has to offer, very soon.
