Personalised Outback Air Tours ....remember ...on all our tours , you can decide location and the number of days

Option A - An outback wilderness station

Fly from Melbourne to Pungalina cattle station, located on the Calvert River on the Queensland/Northern Territory border just south of the gulf. This is an 8 hour flight and normally spans 1 & 1/2 days to get there. Pungalina is a remote wilderness 500,000 acre station. It has a camp for a maximum of 8 people , permanent tents right next to a flowing spring. This wilderness experience includes fishing, canoeing, walking, bird watching and swimming. There are many great swimming holes to visit, plentiful barramundi and wild life and some amazing limestone caves to explore. Spend 4 or 5 days here then visit Sweers Island in the gulf for a days fishing, then 1 night at the famous Lawn Hill gorge before returning home.

www.pungalinasafaris.com.au

Option B - Mount Borradaile (Davidson's Safari Camp Arnhem Land)

Spend two days travelling across Australia by aircraft, through the centre, to Max Davidson's Arnhem Land Safari Camp at Mt Borradaile. This is just east of Darwin and is on the magnificent flood plains where there is abundant bird / animal life, barramundi fishing and above all some of Australia's greatest Aboriginal art sites. Maybe spend 3 - 4 days here and then take two days to travel back home. The home leg might go via Sweers Island in the gulf, Avington station and Innamincka on the Cooper Creek before arriving back at Essendon in Melbourne.

See Davidson's web site for more details:

www.arnhemland-safaris.com 

Option C - Sweers Island fishing

On this holiday to Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria spend 2, 3 or 4 days on Sweers Island. On the way spend a night at Innamincka on the Coopers Creek. The fishing at Sweers is isolated and off the beach or boat depending on your preference. On the way home stay at Adels Grove for a night of camping and a day of swimming and canoeing the Lawn Hill gorge then onto Avington Station for a great outback homestead meal and 4 wd bike riding. Maybe even a game of golf or just a quiet fish on the Barcoo before flying back to Melbourne. See Sweer's site http://www.sweers.com.au/ 

Option D - Aboriginal art in the Kimberley and Top End

Charter departs from Melbourne to see some of the great Bradshaw and Wandjana art sites at places like Mitchell Plateaux, Mt Elizabeth station. Spend a few nights in the Kimberley. Then on to the Northern Territory to camp with Bill Harney, who as a local aboriginal is able to take us to some great rock art sites. A short flight to Mt Borradaile in Arnhem land to Davidson's Safari camp where some of the best rock art sites in Australia exist. A few days here then have an aboriginal guided tour of the rock sites at Oenpelli before flying on to Maningrida for a chance to purchase traditional bark paintings and weaved baskets. The flight home has one stopover before arriving in Melbourne.

Option E - Boat cruise the Kimberley coast

Travel by air , stopping at say Ayer's Rock on the way. Land at Cape Leveque and pick up a boat tour. This is a fast twin cat boat that takes about 8-9 passengers. Spend 4 days travelling up and back the West coast. Visit Phil and Marion's (for a home brew and a swim in their unusual tank), Crocodile Creek (for a swim) and Horizontal Waterfalls (for a zodiac ride). Enjoy beaches, swimming, fresh oysters & crabs and great fishing on the way. Accommodation is in swags on the Kimberley's most remote beaches. A night back at Cape Leveque before flying back to Melbourne.

Option F:- Fishing the Top End

Fly to the Kimberley catch the exciting Barramundi via helicopter. Faraway Bay is a spectacular part of the Kimberley coast to spend time fishing . Then onto Arnhem land such as Barra Base off Bathurst Island, Cape Don on the coast, Mt Borradaile (billabong barramundi), the Mary river ,Cobourg Beach Huts , and Gove. Then fly down to Borroloola for two days out on the Edward Peel islands before our last night at Sweers Island. http://www.sweers.com.au/ 

Option G - Weekend to Flinders Island

This is just a short 85 minute flight down to Flinders Island in the middle of Bass Strait This is a stunning island with volcanic rock, mountains, unbelievable beaches, fishing, great walks and just a place for a weekend to get away from it all. Stay in a B & B type accommodation or the modern Furneaux Tavern at Lady Baron.