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Lorella Springs Wilderness Adventure
offered by supplier M18866 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 7
day(s)
Group Size: 4
- 9
people
Destination(s):
Australia
Specialty Categories:
Ecotourism
Farm Stay & Ranching
Season: May - September
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 3450 Australian Dollar (AUD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 3450 Australian Dollar (AUD)
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Lorella Springs homestead and camping area are open to drive-in visitors. This gives travelers a taste of what an outback adventure can be. There is much to see and do within just a few kilometers of the homestead and you can do this at your own pace and own degree of adventure. Lorella is a huge untouched property, and for those who want a little more, we can accommodate to your needs, by providing either escorted extreme 4WD Tours or Fly-in Tours.
Although our tours are tailored to suit the desires, requirements and capabilities of our clients, below is a suggested 7 night itinerary for an overseas or out of state visitor coming to Lorella. An exact tour cannot be planned. Every trip is different. You are on an adventure. - Not a package tour. Expect the Unexpected.
You will begin your adventure holiday, when you book into your luxury suite in Darwin, where you can relax and unwind and pamper yourself. After an early breakfast. You will be picked up by courtesy vehicle and transported to the airport. Here you will meet up with the little plane which will take you on your journey to Lorella Springs. With spectacular scenery flying over some of the Top Ends wet lands, Arnhem Lands escarpment country and across into the remote Gulf of Carpentaria.
You will be greeted by your guide at Lorella’s bush airstrip and be taken by 4 wheel drive vehicle to the Lorella Springs campground and homestead, enjoying the views, wild animals, sights and stories along the bush track. Keep your eyes sharp to see all sorts of birds, animals and scenery along the way. Afternoon outback style lunch and refreshments at the homestead. Relaxing and getting to know each other in the "Magic Thermal Spring". We do a lot of our cooking over campfires and if you wish sleep under the stars in “swags * or in our comfortable, safe, roomy Safari tents.
Up and at em. Breakfast out of the way and we are off in the 4WDs to do some exploring, some fishing, or whatever adventures are happening around the station. Traveling north along the Tawallah ranges. Perhaps you may like stop off and walk up into the ranges and go water sliding down into the rock pools? Let’s go to the deep bat cave where the early cattle rustlers used to hang out. Climb to the top of the ridge and survey across this land so vast and beautiful, that in other countries, wars would be fought over it. Look out and realize that just you and a handful of others are sharing an area so huge, that if it had the population density of New York City, there would be 40 million people sharing it with you. This is a land bigger than many countries in the world. Over 20 times the area of Washington DC. Two thousand times the area of Monaco.
Back to base for dinner, grab the torches and then off again to catch Yabbies, or some night croc spotting. Supper, cook up the yabbies that you just caught. Chat and chat and chat with your new found friends, about everything that you have seen and done so far ... and you have only been here a matter of hours. Drop exhausted into bed and look up at the night sky and see more stars than you ever believed existed in the heavens.
While you are still getting used to your new environment, we take you to see the ruins of some of the earlier pioneer's settlements and homesteads. Understand the hardships they must have endured. Perhaps you would like to see some of the unusual rock formations in the area.
Every outing is a new adventure. You never know what you will encounter along the way. Lorella has hundreds of kilometers of rivers and creeks. We've never been to this part before. Look, there's a huge croc slide. Be very careful if you go near the water.
Back to camp to again relax in the spring while you’re Station cooked meal is being prepared for you. You need an early night tonight. We've got a lot planned for the next few days.
Alright, you're starting to get the idea of this now ... so it's time to really go into new territory. Over the next few days we are going to be doing a lot more exploring. Travel into the Valley of the Mazes. Walk and climb through an ancient sandstone rock formation created by erosion and weathering. See Buffalo, Pigs and wild Cattle. Stop and view Bird filled Swamps, Lakes and pandanus lined springs, and gradually by 4wdrive we will follow the Rosie creek down to where it meets the tidal salt estuary. Changing scenery again we slowly make our way by boat down to this pristine rivers mouth. Dropping a line in here and there for tonight’s dinner. We will live off the land as much as possible. (*****smiles*****) Well, we may just take a few tasty things in case we weaken).
Watch the birds. Watch the animals. Watch the fish. Look at the many different plants. Understand everything's struggle to compete and survive. Learn their intelligences, their strategies, their alliances, their meaning of Life. What is of Value and what is not? Learn what you can eat and what you can't. Learn plants and animals. Learn poisons and medicines. Look at the stars, look at the universe, and understand how you are part of it and your place in it. Learn how to navigate just from the sky and what is around you. See, you are starting to change already.
We will camp in our tents or swags wherever we end up that night.
We have taken the 4 wheel drive vehicle as far as it will go (and you will learn how to take a 4WD where you thought it could never, ever go). We fish and adventure and explore, continuing learning about the bush, the rules of Nature and Survival.
We want this to be the greatest experience of your life. A time to always remember and treasure. At the coast, there is fishing and crabbing like you can not believe (we have flown in by helicopter in previous years). There are sharks, huge saltwater crocodiles, massive wild bulls that have never seen a human being, and every kind of wild life that this untouched wilderness can offer. This is the most remote part of Australia, and possibly Planet Earth. This is when you start to understand the Balance of Life and Nature. Still there are many adventures along the way. Tonight we will all feast like kings on our bounty from the sea.
The Sun rises, the fog lifts and you wake up in splendor as you realize to yourself you truly are in one of the most isolated places on earth. Waking up to wallabies around your tent. Walk up past the "Magic Spring", through mist rising from the hot water, taking in the magnificent golden sunrise through the ranges. Breathe in the pure fresh air. Listen to the silence only broken by the myriads of wild birds and the bush cattle in the distant hills. Look hard to see the odd small croc or a water monitor diving into the creek.
Climb up, up, up, through crystalline hills, wondering what untouched wealth lies in the next outcrop. Reach the top and look out across this magnificent, fairytale, virgin Kingdom. Look in every direction, as far as you can see, across this land that for the last few days has been your lover, your home. Look inward to the different person that now has grown from the same one that arrived only one week ago ... You have found your inner self, inner peace, inner strength ......
As you come down past the Magic thermal spring you hear the others laughing and chatting in the inviting, flowing, warm water. The relaxing water absorbs you, engulfs you, and you almost drop off to sleep.... but the smell of breakfast over the campfire surpasses the smells of wild honey and native flowers. Yes, breakfast is calling.
Around the campfire there is the feeling of exhilaration from all the new experiences that we have shared, mingled with a sadness to soon be leaving. Some of your new friends will be friends for life.
After lunch, you pile into the 4 Wheel Drive to head back to the bush airstrip. This trip you are different. You can see the splashing of the little croc in the stream, the sea eagle hunting for small turtles, the wild horses and cattle just off the side of the track, and you point them out to others.
The planes engines roar as you lift off from the dirt airstrip. Your pilot dipping and swinging the plane for one last look over this huge country you have now grown to love and some beautiful scenic country only accessible by foot. Tonight you will be relaxing in your Darwin Luxury Hotel, trying to put into words, the feeling deep inside, of how you have changed. Others that have not experienced it will never understand.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Tour price includes airfare X Darwin return, all inclusive.
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