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00:10 How do you feel being here now, having come through everything you have?
00:14 Well, it's been a long, tough, hard road in the 14 years that we've been here.
00:22 We are farmers, originally, and farming's in our blood.
00:27 But we had to make the decision back, about 10 years ago probably,
00:33 whether we continued farming or whether we had to diversify.
00:38 And we diversified into this, Caravan Park, and it's grown to what it is today.
00:45 And it takes up all our time, so we have quite a bit more to do.
00:51 We built a teenage park, whatever, to complement the play barn down there, the moody calf.
00:58 And also, we've got a big swimming pool complex to build in a year or so.
01:04 A big water park complex, whatever, that everybody seems to want in the middle of Kerry to get in here.
01:10 So, that's where we are. It's been a long road, a hard road.
01:16 But we're here, and we employ a lot of good people, 100 people,
01:21 and our managers are brilliant. It eases our tasks altogether.
01:25 Now then, this is the posh cow. This is the event, sort of, hire room, whatever, for the moody cow.
01:32 It's an event room that people can hire for birthdays, christenings, funerals, or any event indeed.
01:42 It is proving quite popular, and it's an event that can take up to 50 or 60 people.
01:49 Now then, this is the decking, overlooking the ponds and on the skibble.
01:54 And we've had many, many weddings out here. We can get about 100 people on this decking here, 100 chairs.
02:00 And the bride and groom get married in March there, on the way up.
02:06 And on a lovely day, it's nothing better.
02:09 Now then, these are our hot tubs in the enclosures.
02:13 All our tubs are round tubs. They're to the highest of standards.
02:18 And the water, we tend to put it 40 degrees.
02:22 They're all cleaned out after people go.
02:25 Sometimes inside and out, and they're refilled with hot water.
02:29 Welcome to the Lutheran System Hotel.
02:31 It's 11 rooms, all en suite, all of their own bathrooms.
02:35 They're all air conditioned. The decor is about the same in them all.
02:39 Like I said, some are double rooms, some are family rooms.
02:44 We also got footy up there, if you need to extend the family numbers.
02:49 This is our battery cube. It's 450 kilowatts.
02:54 It works well in conjunction of our solar panels on the roof, which are 300 kilowatts.
03:00 And also we have a biofuel generator.
03:05 It comes in its own, really.
03:08 The days get longer, and the amount of biofuel in the generator gets less.
03:15 But even in the winter, the solar panels work.
03:19 And it cuts down on our energy bills.
03:23 We are off-grid. We are carbon neutral.
03:27 We do offset enormous amounts of carbon every year.
03:30 This is our recycling centre.
03:33 As you can see, the rubbish, when it comes in from the caravan park, is dropped there.
03:38 It's then scooped up and it goes into the hopper.
03:41 Then it is taken up the elevator to the picking line.
03:45 And it's dropped down into four bays, and a couple of bays over the side of the wall there as well.
03:50 Then it's baled in that baler there.
03:53 It makes half-ton bales, to which van it goes off to the recycling places where they reuse the materials.
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