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Tour Highlights

• Explore Mt. Remarkable & Warren Gorge in the Southern Flinders Ranges
• Hang 10 on a learn-to-surf lesson and sandboarding adventure
• Feel inspired after hikes that will leave you speechless
• Discover Port Lincoln – the ‘Seafood Capital of Australia’
• Meet the koalas and other native wildlife at Mikkira Station
• Be wowed by the spectacular coastal scenery of the Eyre Peninsula
• Swim with playful wild sea lions and magical bottlenose dolphins (OE)
• Come face to face with a majestic great white shark (OE)

Day 1 Adelaide to Flinders Ranges National Park

With its many festivals and great live music scene, South Australia’s state capital prides itself on being Australia’s arts hub – but we love it just as much for its proximity to some of the world’s greatest wines. If you arrive in Adelaide a few days prior to your Overland adventure starting, make sure to try some choice drops from the Barossa or a McLaren Vale shiraz.
We head out of the city pretty early on Day 1, stopping for a quick coffee in Clare (another great wine region), and then continuing on to the southern Flinders Ranges National Park. There’ll be time for a stretch of the legs at Alligator Gorge, lunch in Quorn – home of the PichiRichi Railway – and a guided to the top of the ranges at Dutchman’s Stern. Tonight’s campsite is in Warren Gorge; keep your eyes peeled for yellow-footed rock wallabies, which have bounced back from near-extinction.
Driving time is about 4.5 hours and we’ll walk for about 2 hours. Tonight we bush camp at Warren Gorge which has toilets but no showers. Lunch and dinner provided.

Day 2 The Eyre Peninsula & Coodlie Park

Prepare to encounter one of Australia’s best-kept secrets today: the Eyre Peninsula. Composed of incredible red-rock landscapes, a huge diversity of wildlife, and very few travelers, this part of the world really feels like your own private piece of paradise. Keep your cameras at the ready for the Big Galah, an eight-meter-high fiberglass structure overlooking the gift shop in the tiny town of Kimba.
After a quick pit stop for lunch, it’s back on the road to Venus Bay, Talia Caves, and the Lake Newland sand dunes (where adrenaline junkies can test out their sand boarding skills). In the afternoon we’ll pull in to Coodlie Park for a night’s stay on a working farm which is also our home base!
Tonight you will share a meal and stories with travelers from our other tours sleep in our super cool swag huts and shower facilities are available. Please note that tomorrow you will be swapping buses and joining the other group coming from Perth.
Today we drive approx 450km (5 hours) in total with stops along the way and walk about 1.5 hours. All meals are included.

Day 3 Coodlie Park & Baird Bay

This morning we may be joining the group coming from Perth and going to Adelaide, heading off to swim with the ever cheeky and playful sea lions and dolphins at Baird Bay which is just up the road from Coodlie Park. The Eyre Peninsula is an area famed for its watery wildlife and this morning you’ll get the option to swim, snorkel and splash about with playful sea lions and dolphins on a 3-hour cruise. This outsourced adventure done by Baird Bay Eco-tours is an optional experience and at only $160 will be one you will treasure forever.
Then it’s onto Murphy’s Haystacks, incredible granite rock formations sculptured into wondrous and weird shapes over millions of years then we head back to Coodlie Park Bush camp for more campfire stories with your new friends
Driving time today is about three hours and accommodation is back in the swag huts at Coodlie Park with all meals provided.

Day 4 Coodlie Park & Mikkira Station

A motor along the Great Ocean Tourist Drive towards Elliston, checking out the amazing cliffs of Locks Well, then continue on to Port Lincoln for lunch. Stretch your legs with a wander around the town – we’ve put aside an hour here for you to stroll along the foreshore, survey the scenery or kick back with a cool drink in a caf√©. Tonight we camp at Mikkira Station, a private campground surrounded by eucalyptus trees and neighborly koalas.
We drive for about four hours today and walk for one and a half hours. Mikki Station has toilets and shower facilities. All meals included.

Day 5 Port Lincoln to Mt Remarkable

Depending on your love affair with fear, today you’ll either be diving into the world of Great White Sharks or brushing up on local whaling history at Whaler’s Way Conservation Park. Choose shark diving and you’ll be boating out to sea, changing into dive gear, and invited to hop in a cage for a meet-up with some real monsters of the deep.
Choose the way of the Whalers and you’ll be visiting the remains of an old whaling station (where you’ll hopefully spot some kangaroos and emus), lunching in Lincoln National Park, and stopping by Glen Forest Wildlife Park to hand-feed a few critters. Tonight we set up camp in Mt Remarkable.
Today we drive for about four hours, and walk for two, if not doing the cage dive. We bush camp with toilet facilities at Mt Remarkable.

Day 6 Mt Remarkable to Adelaide

We’re on the home stretch now – and the entrance into Adelaide provides a fitting finale. Traveling on to some of South Australia pioneer mining towns of Kadina, Moonta, and Wallaroo. Check out the rustic charm of this historic area.
This overland adventure ends upon arrival in Adelaide. There’s no accommodation provided tonight, and make sure you have booked your accommodation prior to departure. You’ll get your breakfast and lunch and although there are no formal activities planned it is usual for the group to get together and reflect on the big journey together over a few drinks and meals (at own expense).

Optional Activities

While everything on our tours is included in the price such as transport, accommodation, food and entry, and national park fees, there are a few optional extra activities that we leave up to the passenger to decide if they want to do.

Swim with sea lions and dolphins – Baird Bay $160 p.p.
This is an amazing experience – you may have swum with dolphins at other places around the world but the interaction that you will have with the sea lions and dolphins at Bairds Bay will leave you breathless. Bairds Bay is a very sheltered bay on the Eyre Peninsula and passengers board the boat for a short ride to our first stop which is to swim with sea lions. This takes place in approximately 2 meters of water. It is a natural experience and the sea lions come into the sheltered lagoon to interact with us.

After this, we head further out into the bay to swim with the dolphins. This happens in four meters of water but is still within the sheltered bay. The tour is 3-4 hours, wetsuit and snorkel equipment is provided at no additional cost. We will need to know your intentions upon booking to give updated numbers to the operator. Payment is done on the day to the operator.

SHARK CAGE DIVING OPTIONS – PORT LINCOLN

Shark Cage Diving with Calypso Star Charters $395pp + $100 onboard payment

Calypso Star Charters was the first one-day shark tour in Australia and offers passengers the chance to get up close and personal with one the planets most feared creatures, the Great White Shark. Take a 2.5 hours cruise out to the Neptune Islands on this full-day tour spending a minimum of 45 minutes in the cage with 7 other adrenalin junkies.

The tour departs at 6.30 am and includes breakfast, morning tea, and afternoon tea. Nullarbor Traveller passengers receive a photos pack valued at $30.

Shark Cage Diving with Adventure Bay Charters $395pp + $125 onboard payment

This full-day tour out to the Neptune Islands gives people the opportunity to shark cage dive with 5 of their adrenalin junkie friends or stay dry in the world’s first Shark Aqua Sub. These guys are eco-friendly, no chumming option, instead of pumping out AC/DC underwater which apparently is the great whites favorite band!

The tour departs at 6.30 am and includes breakfast, morning tea, and afternoon tea and returns around 6.30 pm.

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– Hiking Flinders Ranges – Alligator Gorge and Warren Gorge
– Swim with Sea Lions & Dolphins
– Sand boarding massive dunes
– Cape Le Grand National Park – a national treasure
– The Stirling Ranges and Frenchmans Peak hike
– Walk through ancient tingle forests in the Valley of the Giants
– Koomal Dreaming Aboriginal Cultural Experience
– West Australia’s spectacular South West
– Taste the local flavors of Margaret River
– Marvel the coastal rock formations of Albany

Day 1 Flinders Ranges National Park

It’s an early start today as we set out from the City of Churches across the Nullarbor. Headed north, we’ll stop in at Clare for a quick coffee before continuing on to the rugged gorges and Red Gums of the Flinders Ranges. Along the way there’ll be the opportunity for a bit of a leg stretch on a stroll down Alligator Gorge (no crocs here, though keep an eye out for snakes), then it’s on to Quorn, home of the PichiRichi Railway, for lunch. You’ll be spending tonight in Warren Gorge, camped out under the stars of the Southern Cross.

As the sun is setting and while your evening meal is being prepared, you will have the opportunity to explore the beautiful Warren gorge in the Flinders Ranges. It is here that you will get the opportunity to see a Yellow-Footed rock wallaby, almost driven to extinction by introduced ‚Feral‚animals, at Warren Gorge they are beginning to ‚Bounce Back!‚

Today we drive approx. 400 km (4 hours) in total with stops along the way. We’ll be bush camping (no facilities) and your lunch and dinner are included.

Day 2 Coodlie Park & the Eyre Peninsula

The Eyre Peninsular is one of those great many secrets people are only just discovering and once they do they are blown away! Keep your cameras at the ready for the Big Galah, an eight-metre-high fibreglass structure overlooking the gift shop in the tiny town of Kimba. After a quick pit stop for lunch, it’s back on the road to Venus Bay, Talia Caves and the Lake Newland sand dunes (where adrenaline junkies can test out their sand boarding skills). In the afternoon we’ll pull in to Coodlie Park for a night’s stay on a working farm which is also our home base!

Tonight you will share a meal and stories with travellers from our other tours sleep in our super cool swag huts and shower facilities are available.Today we drive approx 450km (5 hours) in total with stops along the way and all meals are included.

Day 3 Baird Bay & Fowlers Bay

Just up the road from Coodlie Park lies Baird Bay, an environment famed for its watery wildlife. This morning you’ll get the option to swim, snorkel and splash about with playful sea lions and dolphins on a 3-hour cruise. This outsourced adventure done by Baird Bay eco tours is an optional experience and at only $160 will be an experience you will treasure forever. Following a picnic lunch on the beach, we’ll continue driving along the coast to our secluded camping spot in Fowlers Bay.

Today we drive approx 5 hours in total with stops along the way and camp at Fowlers Bay campground which has shower facilities. All meals included.

Day 4 The Great Australian Bight

Days don’t get much more Australian than this one. Not only do we cross the 5,320-kilometre-long dingo fence this morning; we also take a snap or two at the famous wombat, emu, camel road sign on the Nullarbor and stop off at Bunda Cliffs to see where Australia, quite literally, drops into the ocean. Come arvo we cross the border into WA, where tonight’s free entertainment is provided courtesy of the celestial sphere.

Today’s distance is approx. 7 hours, with break stops. Tonight we bush camp (no facilities) under the Southern skies on the Nullarbor and all your meals are provided.

Day 5 Esperance & Cape Le Grand National Park

With their planetary sounding names and strewn about space junk, the small towns of Balladonia and Norseman have a slightly intergalactic atmosphere about them. Balladonia shot to worldwide fame in 1979 when the Skylab space station returned to earth here rather abruptly. After lunch we continue the drive to Esperance, which may seem like a bustling metropolis after five days in the outback.

Today we drive approx 7 hours, with stops along the way and we set up camp in spectacular Cape Le Grand National Park where you also have showers facilities. All meals included.

Day 6 Cape Le Grand National Park

Crystal clear waters, squeaky white sand, expansive granite bluffs… and sunbathing kangaroos? How you spend your day here is wholly up to you: set out on a coastal bush walk, splash about in the sea, fiddle around with your camera aperture or just kick back with your new buds along the beach.
We will take a hike to Frenchman’s Peak, where beautiful vistas span right across Cape Le Grand and the Recherche Archipelago. Locals reckon Frenchman’s Peak was named after the shape of French naval hat, but we’re not so sure.
We drive approx 10 minutes today, and walks will vary from 2-4 hours. You will have shower facilities and all meals included.

Day 7 Cape Le Grand National Park & Stirling Ranges

Take a morning stroll down to the beach and spot some kangaroo’s then settle in for the onwards drive to our Stirling Ranges campsite.
We drive for about 4 hours today, and walk for two hours. We camp in a private campground in the Stirling Ranges where you have shower and toilet facilities and even limited phone charging! All meals included.

Day 8 Stirling Ranges to Quinninup

Today’s a day for keeping cameras close and clicking fingers at the ready. Travelling along Western Australia’s answer to Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, you’ll be treated to superb views of sun-bleached boulders, turquoise seas and dramatic red-rock cliffs shaped by eons of crashing waves and rolling tides. From the coast to the forest, we’ll veer off into the Valley of the Giants for a stroll through the ancient empire walk.
It is just over 5 hours from Mt Trio to Quinninup, with stops along the way. Tonight we swag camp at a caravan park with shower and toilet facilities and all meals are provided.

Day 9 Quinninup to Margaret River

Today it’s time to eat, drink and be merry, tasting the delicious local fare of Margaret River. Boutique breweries, chocolate, cheese and even a fudge factory, today you will have time to browse and explore.
Today there is just a short two hour drive and all meals are included.

Day 10 Margaret River to Perth

On the last day of the trip you’ll wake to the now-familiar warble of kookaburras and cockatoos before taking the coastal road to Perth. Check out the Ngilgi caves and get the lowdown on this amazing underground world, then gain a totally different insight into local culture during a meet-up with some of the people indigenous to the area. A final stint on the road will bring us into Perth.

Today we drive approx. 5 hours and please make sure you have booked your Perth accommodation prior to departure. You’ll get your breakfast and lunch and although there are no formal activities planned it is usual for the group to get together and reflect on the big journey together over a few drinks and meal (at own expense).

Optional Experiences
There is one optional experience on this tour.

Swim with sea lions and dolphins ($160 p.p. guaranteed)

[Highly recommended optional experience (!)]

This is an amazing experience – you may have swum with dolphins at other places around the world but the interaction that you will have with the sea lions and dolphins at Bairds Bay will leave you breathless. Baird bay is a very sheltered bay on the Eyre Peninsula and passengers aboard the boat for a short ride to our first stop, which is to swim with sea lions. This takes place in approximately 2 metres of water. It is a natural experience and the sea lions come into the sheltered lagoon to interact with us. After this, we head further out into the bay to swim with the dolphins. This happens in four metres of water but is still within the sheltered bay. The tour is 3-4 hours, wetsuit and snorkel equipment is provided at no additional cost.

As this activity is outsourced, only limited spaces are available. By confirming and saying your intentions now, we can guarantee your position on the tour. Pay the operator direct $160 on the day of activity

The operators of this tour operate independent to Nullarbor Traveller.
Weather can play an important part in the operation of the tours and the operators make their own risk assessment and decision about the operation of the tour each day.Any money collected is refunded if the tour does not operate.

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