Iris Lodge Alpacas

The experience

You'll visit our farm, Iris Lodge, which is a working grazing property on the Central Coast NSW where you'll meet our alpacas, wiltipoll sheep, horses and cows and our maremma dog Lola.

At Iris Lodge Alpacas we offer our guests the opportunity to experience life on the farm and get to know our animals.

When you arrive you'll meet Billy our very special guard alpaca who will want to fed a banana before he will let you on the farm. Next you'll meet Ellie a wiltipoll sheep who is Billy's best friend. Take time to meet Billy and Ellie and get some photos. Ellie enjoys a good deep tissue message.

Next its time to meet and feed Coby and Andy our horses who enjoy apples and carrots.

We then meet our collection of baby lambs who we will feed later.

Walking up past the horses we meet Benny and gang our flock of wiltipoll sheep. They are keen for their grain and carrots. Here you'll have the chance to hand feed the sheep and learn about what makes wiltipolls different to other sheep. You'll also meet Lola our maremma who guards the sheep From here its off to the alpacas where you will the opportunity to hand feed them their alpaca mix and carrots. We spend time meeting the alpacas, interacting with them and learning their personalities.

When the alpacas are full its time to round them up and bring them to where we have breakfast.

Before we have breakfast the lambs will want to have their bottles. We spend time feeding the lambs. Billy will be waiting nearby to have any left over milk.

Its' now time for our complimentary breakfast watching the alpacas.

Alpaca farm visits

We also host afternoon farm visits starting at 3pm. You meet and hand feed our alpacas, cows and sheep. The experience lasts for 1.5 hours.

The farm

You'll visit our farm Iris Lodge which is a working grazing property on the Central Coast NSW where you'll meet our alpacas, wiltipoll sheep, horses and cows.

School tours

We offer unique farm learning experiences for school groups (Kindergarten to Year 12), with so much to see and learn from here on our alpaca farm! We run informational and interactive School Group Tours, and can work with you to design a tour to meet your school's specific learning outcomes, supporting the kids to farms program. With 160+ animals on our property, students will have the chance to meet creatures great and small from chickens, to sheep and alpacas, to beef cattle and horses! Visit our Kids to Farm page or call us to find out more.

Certification & Awards

ECO Certified (Nature Tourism) - Ecotourism Australia

2023 Global Recognition Awards winner

Regional Finalist - Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2021 and 2022

Most Unique Educational Farm Learning Experience, New South Wales - 2022 Resort and Retreat Awards

Iris Lodge Alpacas is officially ECO Certified with Ecotourism Australia and proudly appears in The Green Travel Guide