Lake Eyre Tours & Flights via Wilpena Pound William Creek Coober Pedy 5 Days

5 Day Lake Eyre Tours & Flights via Wilpena Pound & Coober Pedy

From Adelaide to Adelaide – Lake Eyre Tour & Flight via Flinders Ranges with Coober Pedy, Wilpena Pound, (with pound walk & flight option), Copley, Marree, Lake Eyre National Park, wetlands walk, Oodnadatta Track, Coward Springs, old Ghan Railway towns & history, William Creek, Coober Pedy (opals & sleep underground), Woomera & Port Augusta. 5 days/4 nights Tour Code EWC5

2 Lake Eyre Flight Options -

1. Two Hour Flight  - Lake Eyre South & North + Warburton River Dingo
   Fence | Muloorina Station | Top Of Lake Eyre North | Madigan Gulf |
   Warburton River | Cooper Creek | Neales River | Warburton Groove
   |Jackboot Bay | Belt Bay | Lake Eyre South | Marree Man And So Much
   More.
2. Full Day to Birdsville including Lake Eyre Birdsville Goyder Lagoon & Cooper Creek Floods plus all above - Full Day with Lunch at Birdsville Pub

Select Your flight preference when booking.

If 2 hour flight is chosen, there is time for lake shore visit and walk, Birdwatching and Lake Shore drive by 4WD transport. If full day flight
is chosen these ground activities not available.

Ground activities include  - Follow the Overland Telegraph Line & Old Ghan Railway Track and visit historic Coward Springs & Curdimurka Railway Sidings and history plus much more. Includes all fees, flight, meals, ensuite accommodated at Wilpena Pound, Marree (or William Creek)  Consider also the Wilpena Pound Flinders Ranges flight option. Connection options to Sydney, Broken Hill or Melbourne 

ITINERARY

Day 1 – From Adelaide pickup approximately 7 am from airport or your accommodation for departure via spectacular mountain scenery as we travel via Clare Valley wine country, then the Flinders Ranges to Wilpena Pound. Our journey takes us through rural SA to enjoy picturesque roadside stops for lunch and a morning and afternoon teas. Visit historic Quorn & Hawker before arrival at Wilpena Pound resort for our overnight stop.  Enjoy a sunset walk with the kangaroos amongst the ancient Red River Gums L, D

Day 2 – This morning we recommend the spectacular optional scenic flight over Wilpena Pound and he stunning Flinders Ranges. There’s time also to enjoy the Wangarra Lookout & Hills Homestead walk into the Pound. We leave Wilpena and travel through the range via the Brachina Gorge Geological Trail where the oldest rocks in the world have been identified. Visit historic Parachilna Pub then Farina Ghan railway town ruins before travel on to Marree. Check out the ancient mosque and Ghan railway history. Overnight Marree.  B,L,D

Day 3 – In Marree check out the Lake Eyre Yacht Club and Marree Aboriginal & pioneer history. We aim to visit the shores of Lake Eyre, usually .at Level Post Bay and visit a favourite waterhole for
birds (including brolgas, egrets, herrings, stilts, pelicans) and
birdwatchers.Today we travel the Oodnadatta Track following the Old Ghan Railway via various old rail bridges and sidings from the Ghan hey days. We arrive Coward Springs (an old Ghan rail town) for an optional quick dip in the hot springs and cross the path of the old Overland Telegraph line. We detour off the Oodnadatta Track to visit the Bubbler & Blanche Cup at the Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park. At William Creek an optional Painted Desert flight may be available, and enjoy the collection of “space junk” collected from the Woomera Rocket range.   Flights may be from Marree depending where latest water flows and birds are on the day. Overnight William Creek  B,L,D

Day 4 – From William Creek we take an optional  2 hour scenic flight over Lake Eyre. On return we head for, and may visit the Lake Eyre western shore at Halligan Bay. We continue up the track to Oodnadatta via the Old Ghan route and largest bridge at Algebuckina. Time for a look around Oodnadatta then we head for the Painted Desert for late afternoon light viewing, before we enter the moonscape of the world’s largest opal mining town of Coober Pedy and enjoy a local restaurant meal (own cost), and a cosy underground motel in the earth dug the opal mining way. (above ground conventional motel options also available) B,L,D

Day 5 – Visit Coober Pedy’s underground museum of opal mining, before heading south on the Stuart Highway desert travel & salt lakes lets you appreciate the remote and vast outback. Witness modern “oasis” outback stations and transport roadhouses of this great Stuart Highway  connecting Australia’s north and south. Visit Woomera and the “rocket park” collection of missiles launched from this unique location, and view the infamous detention centre. Travel via Port Augusta, the powerhouse of Spencers Gulf and a cuppa by the water front, then on via rich rural lands of the Gulf of St Vincent  to arrive Adelaide early evening. Tour ends approx 7 pm. B,L

Tour Inclusions –
•    Small group luxury 4WD travel (usually 4-6 / vehicle) with professional and experienced driver / guide
•    Optional extra Scenic Flight over Lake Eyre – 2 hours or optional extended flights -  choose in Extras when booking
•    All delicious meals, including vegetarian, unless noted in itinerary.
•    Comfortable hotel/motel / cabin accommodation
•    All World Heritage and National Park entry and accommodation fees, hotel pickups
•    Contributions of tour price supports Outback Kids and nature care programs.