As per our long-standing tradition, a ballot is held for week-long (Sunday-Sunday) accommodation at Cana during the popular and often over-requested December/January period. Preference is given to Emmaus Parish families with school-aged children. Please send in your requests now for Read more
Author: David Kilmartin
Working bees in 2025
We hold five working bees each year. We appreciate any help we can get to keep things running and keep the rental tariffs low. Pay the joy and love forward to future tenants. Sunday 1 June (this Sunday!) is our Read more
2024-25 Summer School Holiday Bookings Ballot now open
Please send in your requests now for bookings in the coming December and January school holiday period at the Cana Cottages. Requests received by the end of October will go into a ballot if particular dates are oversubscribed. After these Read more
New fees and working bees
Thanks to everyone who came to the 2024 AGM. We appreciate your support, helping the cottages to provide affordable seaside breaks for Emmaus Parish families and friends. At the AGM we agreed to raise rates slightly, to keep pace with Read more
Join us for the Cana AGM
Friends of Cana are invited to join us for the Cana Cottage Holiday Homes Association Incorporated Annual General Meeting, to be held in the meeting room at Holy Cross Church, Goodwood on Tuesday 7th May, from 7pm for a 7.30pm Read more
A Cana summer on the way
Hi Friends, You should have received confirmation by now if you placed a request for a December-January slot at the Cana Cottages. There were a couple of weeks that were oversubscribed, apologies if you didn’t get your first or second Read more
Summer school holiday bookings now open
Requests are being received for bookings in the coming December and January school holiday period at Cana Cottages. Requests received will go into a ballot if particular dates are oversubscribed. After these requests have been processed it will be first Read more
Working bees for 2023
We maintain the Cana Cottages by holding working bees to carry out maintenance on weekend mornings several times throughout the year. You are invited to come and help fix a few things at your favourite sea-side retreat (that’s the Cana Read more
Don’t forget, take out the trash
Please don’t forget, garbage collection along the Aldinga esplanade (part of Onkaparinga Council) takes place on Monday morning – so if you’re departing on a Sunday, please take your red bin and place it down at the kerbside as you Read more
Summer school holiday bookings now being taken
It’s been a cool, wet start to Spring but summer is sure to be hot and what better place to be than at the Cana Cottages. Through October we’re taking weekly booking requests for December and January. Preference given to Read more