Australia camping expeditions, adventure safaris for seniors

Impressions

Australia is acknowledged for its remote frontier landscapes filled with stories of endeavour, success and disappointment, of legendary tales stirring up mind games of romance and adventure. Join our frontier expeditions, a soft adventure into remote regions of Australia, typically suited to a wide range of special interest groups, Seniors or Over 50's, educational study groups, social travel clubs and individual adventurers..

Despite the challenges and rigors of the outback, there is a growing desire by people to explore the bush, to savour the feeling and moods of endless horizons and space, unbelievable star filled skies by night, the inspirational meeting with an adventure traveller when least expected, the heritage of rural stations bigger than some nations and curious isolated places that are literally as small as the dot on the map.Then there are the "salt of the earth" characters who carve out a living in their remote existence.

2008 EXPEDITION - JOURNEY TO THE "CORNER COUNTRY"

14 days / 13 nights

Departing from and concluding in Brisbane.

May 17 (sorry, fully booked)

June 21 to July 4

July 21 to August 3

Inclusions:

4WD transport and naturalist guides,

best available remote accommodation ranging from quaint village pubs to outback station workers cottages and shearers quarters,

hearty country meals at regional cafes and pubs, homesteads and bush picnics,

all national park and essential entries

Tour highlights:

Legendary explorer pathways of Thomas Mitchell, Ludwig Leichhardt, Charles Sturt and Burke & Wills.
14 days of memorable contact with "salt of the earth" Australian bush characters in their remote outback settings.
Discover the epic challenges and accounts of European attempted settlement and taming of the landscape.
Quirky remote villages, ghost towns, and "local watering holes" - the bush pubs
The Tibooburra, Innamincka and Birdsville Pubs - etched in outback folklore.
Remote border crossings and Dingo barrier fences, the longest man made structure on earth.
Remote and colourful arid landscapes that inspired internationally celebrated artists.
Indigenous trade routes of displaced desert tribes and clans.
Historic endeavours of Afghan Camaleers and their camel trains, of shearers and gold diggers chasing a living or fortune.
Ruins and remains of heritage pastoral outstations and woolsheds
Outback institutions born to overcome the tyranny of distance - School of the Air and Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Mesas, wetlands and sands of the Sturt National Park
The rolling, rippling red sand ridges of the Simpson and Strzelecki Deserts
Big Red, the highest red sand ridge in the heart of Australia.
A cattle duffers escape route - the Strzelecki Track
Day and overnight visitations to million acre properties, personally hosted by their owners - abundant bush hospitality in absolute isolation.
Historic holdings and shelters of foremost cattle barons
Properties larger than some nations.
Iconic waterways and parched, flood prone channel country awaiting the next big wet.
The Dig Tree, memorial to Australia's most ill-fated explorer expedition
Vast inland space and expansive star filled, evening skies
An uncanny silence and calm
Warm days and cold nights - the desert temperature scale.
Habitats to unique inland wildlife, dominated by our largest raptor the Wedge-tailed Eagle and the Big Red Kangaroo
A spirit and folklore, an emotion, only realised by simply being there.

(Tours and arrangements subject to variation, in response to conditions and circumstances applying at the time - minimum bookings for these tours is 10)

OTHER PROPOSED EXPEDITIONS - 2009-11 departures to be announced.

There are three other core Nature Bound Australia, Frontier Expeditions of 14 and 15 days duration, available only to groups of people specifically seeking to explore the off the beaten tracks and outback features between Brisbane and Alice Springs, the desert and Kimberley tracks from Alice Springs to Broome and the Savannah lands across the Gulf of Carpentaria from Darwin to Cairns.

These are mixed camping and accommodated expeditions, with quality home-style camp cooking,

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

Special interest groups and individuals numbering a minimum of 12 per tour

EXPEDITION SELECTION - One journey to operate / per year

May departure each year with overflow bookings to a July departure

BRISBANE TO ALICE SPRINGS VIA

*Outback Queensland * The great Channel Country *Birdsville * "Big Red" - highest sand ridge in the Simpson Desert * Birdsville Track * The Diamantina * Coolabah creeks * "Dead Man's Sandhill" * Sturt Stony Desert * Great Artesian bores * The Cooper * Cannuwaukaninna Bore and wetlands * The 5400km Dog Fence; world's longest man made barrier * Maree, the Ghan town * Oodnadatta Track * Mulka Gibber Plain * The old Ghan rail route * Lake Eyre; 9700 sqkms * Curdimurka siding; site of the great outback ball, under the stars * Lake Cadibarrawirracanna; Australia's longest place name * Kidman's Anna Creek Cattle Station 30,000 sq kms; worlds largest pastoral lease * Underground world of Coober Pedy * "White fellows hole in the ground" * Commonwealth Hill; worlds largest sheep station 10,567sq kms * The Castle (Mesa) Mad Max III and Priscilla movies * Lambert's geographic centre of Australia * Uluru - Kata Tjuita (Ayres Rock; The Olgas) * Watarrka NP; Kings Canyon * Hermannsburg Mission * Albert Namatjira Country.

14 DAYS; 13 nights
DEPARTS - Brisbane - scheduling by arrangement.
CONCLUDES - Alice Springs
PRICE - to be advised
To register your tentative interest, email today.

ALICE SPRINGS TO BROOME VIA

* The Kimberley * Central Desert - Tanami Track * Yuendumu community * Rabbit Flat * 240,000 water birds of Lake Gregory (seasonal) * Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater * Kidman's Station * Purnululu NP - Bungle Bungle Ranges * Emma Gorge * El Questro Station * Pentecost and Durack Rivers * Gibb River * Heart of the Kimberley gorges and remote frontier stations * Bradshaw and Wandjina rock art * Cockburn, King Leopold and Napier Ranges * Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek * Ancient fossilised Reefs * Derby on King Sound * Optional extra - Buccaneer Archipelago from the air - Talbot Bay and Horizontal Waterfall * The wonders of Broome.

15 DAYS; 14 nights
DEPARTS; Alice Springs - scheduling by arrangement
CONCLUDES - Broome (possible reverse journey Broome to Alice Springs to follow)
PRICE - to be advised
To register your tentative interest, email today.

DARWIN TO CAIRNS VIA THE GULF AND SAVANNAH LANDS

* Litchfield NP * Nitmiluk NP; Katherine Gorge * Mataranka; Elsey NP * Warloch Ponds; "We of the Never Never" * Roper River and highway * Limmen NP * Borroloola; McArthur River * Bing Bong; Gulf of Carpentaria * Hell's Gate * Nicholson River * Kingfisher Camp * Lawn Hill NP and gorge * Gregory Downs * Burketown * Leichhardt Falls * Normanton; Karumba * Gulflander to Croydon * Georgetown * Undara Volcanic NP; Lava Tubes * National Parks of Atherton Tablelands * Hypipamee NP Crater * Hasties Swamp

14 DAYS; 13 nights
DEPARTS; Darwin - scheduling by arrangement.
CONCLUDES; Cairns
PRICE - to be advised
To register your tentative interest, email today.

GETTING THERE

Regular daily domestic flights service Brisbane, Alice Springs and Darwin to commence your journey.

INCLUSIONS

To be advised with price in due course and specific to individual expeditions.

EXCLUSIONS

Free time and personal costs. Optional activities elected by participants and not part of our guided journey. Personal travel insurances. Pre and post travel arrangements. Australian departure taxes. Food and beverages additional to those provided.

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT HIRE

Camping gear available for hire for the tour duration. Details to be advised in dur course, specific to each tour.
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