Lake Eyre - Innamincka 2 Day Flight

LAKE EYRE 2 DAY ACCOMM. FLIGHT – OVERNIGHT BEAUTIFUL INNAMINCKA
TOUR CODE: LE/INN/2

LAKE EYRE IS A CENTRAL FOCUS POINT OF THIS FLIGHT, HOWEVER IT IS A SMALL PART OF A HUGELY VARIED AND VERY RICH FLIGHT OVER THIS OUTBACK PART OF AUSTRALIA. YOUR FLIGHT WILL COVER A LARGE PART OF AUSTRALIA, ITS OUTBACK HISTORY AND INTERESTING LEGENDS.

LAKE EYRE: ADELAIDE - PORT AUGUSTA - PAST WILPENA POUND - BURKE AND WILLS' DIG TREE, QUEENSLAND - INNAMINCKA BUS TOUR OF COOPER CREEK - OVER COONGIE LAKES - BIRDSVILLE - LAKE EYRE NORTH AND SOUTH - OLYMPIC DAM - ADELAIDE.

Once every decade, heavy rains in Tropical Australia create restoring floods which flow hundreds of kilometres down through country such as Dajarra, Boulia, Winton and Longreach. When these floods reach the Birdsville-Lake Eyre-Cooper Creek basin country they fill the channels, waterholes, billabongs, claypans and lakes that create the surface of this country.
This in turn creates a flood of water life – fish, crustaceans, etc. which attract some breeding pelicans and waterbirds, such as banded stilts, cormorants, spoonbills, etc. The restoring floods give life to the land and create a host of dependent animal, bird and plant life. It is amazing to fly over thousands of square kilometres of vast desert country, then find the country refreshed from recent floods.

Dick Lang’s Bush Pilots was the first air safari company to operate to Lake Eyre in 1974 and every year since.

Your flight is the most comprehensive and interesting trip of the Outback of South Australia and Queensland. You have the history, legend, beauty and relaxation of our Centre, all in an action-packed two day safari. (Dick and Helen Lang were part owners of the Innamincka Pub during the historic, huge floods of 1974).
What better way to do this than with pilots who have lived and worked in the outback for many years – pilots who know the people, the stories and the land.

DAY 1 Depart from the General Aviation Terminal, Kel Barclay Avenue, Adelaide Airport, at 8.30 a.m. (Please be ready for check-in at 8.00 a.m.) Fly north to Port Augusta to refuel. Past Wilpena Pound and over the rugged and isolated Gammon Ranges, Mount McKinlay, Arkaroola, Mount Painter, Mount Fitton Talc Mines and Mount Hopeless. View Lake Frome and Lake Callabonna, once the home of the giant diprodotons - but now a world-famous fossil site. See Lake Blanche which can be filled by the Strzelecki. Lunch in the aircraft as we fly over the Strzelecki Desert to touch down on a small bush strip on the banks of Coopers Creek at Nappamerrie.
We walk 400 metres to view the famous Dig Tree (PLEASE NOTE THAT HEAVY RAINS RENDER THIS AIRSTRIP UNUSABLE). Listen to the saga of the struggling explorers, Burke and Wills. Return to our aircraft for a short flight back into SA, to land at Innamincka, where our own special bus will take us down to the banks of beautiful Cooper Creek. Visit lonely Burke's Grave in a beautiful grove of gum and coolibah trees on the bank of the Cooper. (MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE TILL LATE AUGUST DUE TO FLOOD WATERS). An alternative drive through very interesting outback landscape to lonely King's Marker of B&W fame, on the edge of remote Cooper Creek. Overnight motel, Innamincka.

DAY 2 Depart Innamincka, flying across the beautiful Coongie Lake system - a huge inland lake system in the heart of a desert - wetlands, quite rare throughout the world. Fly over the edge of Sturt's Stony Desert, then over typical country of the Simpson - claypans, flats and sand dunes. Fly into Queensland to land at Birdsville for a visit to the Birdsville Working Museum and possibly a drink in the Birdsville Pub. Depart Birdsville, flying over the spectacular Channel Country of Goyder's Lagoon on the Diamantina River. Fly along the edge of the Simpson Desert and the Tirari Desert, following the mighty Warburton River on its path to Lake Eyre. We see the various rivers which can empty into Lake Eyre as we descend for a flight down the length of this giant lake. Fly past the mouth of Madigan Gulf, where Donald Campbell broke the world land speed record in 1966 in the Bluebird. Eight years later Dick Lang established a world record by ski-ing across Lake Eyre eight metres above this former racetrack. Because of very heavy tropical rainfall in outback Queensland, you may see the surface of Lake Eyre partly covered with water - or the incredible beauty of its glistening surface. Fly across Lake Eyre South before descending to land at Olympic Dam to refuel. From Olympic Dam, fly south past Lake Torrens to Port Augusta, then over Port Pirie and St Vincent Gulf, before landing back at Adelaide Airport by approximately 5 p.m.

DEPARTS: August 26,31. Sept. 6, 9, 14, 15, 17, 22, 28, 29. October 2, 4, 12, 16.

FARE: All inclusive - all air travel as stated, all ground travel as stated, all meals and accommodation.

Two people travelling together and sharing accommodation – $ 1,699 per person.

Person travelling alone – $1,799.

FARE : All inclusive as above $1699 for twin share, $1799 for single.

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