| Date: |
1st
August 2010 |
| Duration: |
15
Day Camping & Tag Along Tour
Perth - Perth |
| Highlights: |
Rudall
River National Park - the largest national park in WA, Kalkan
Kalkan Soak, Tjingkulatjatjarra Pool and Desert Queen Baths,
Billy Dunn's and Jinawanura Caves, Carrawine Gorge, the Oakover
River. |
| Price: |
AUD$4,645.00
in Leaders Vehicle
AUD$2,825 Tag Along (inc. GST) |
This remote area expedition into
the south-western portion of the little Sandy Desert offers participants
an opportunity to experience a vast variety of arid zone plants,
birds, Aboriginal art and outback scenery. Join us as we head north
through Mt Magnet and Marymia station to the remote Carnarvon Range
Conservation Park...
The Carnarvon Range Conservation
Park covers 390,000ha and is situated in the southwest section of
the Little Sandy Desert between the Great Northern Highway in the
west, the Canning Stock Route in the east, Mt Essendon (the highest
point) in the North and Mt Methwin in the south.
The Park offers visitors a remarkable
range of spectacular geology. Cross-bedded red sandstone takes the
form of low undulating hills, occasional steep cliffs and gullies
with semi permanent pools. Plains and sand ridges are found at the
base of the hills.
There are over 400 vascular plants
that have been identified in the Park. The vegetation is mainly
tall open-shrub land (acacia, grevillea and hakea), low woodland
of mulga and gidgee. The dunes have a low open woodland of sand
dune bloodwood and acacia.
Eighty plus species of birds have
been sighted in the area. Past sightings include a wide range of
hawks, honey eaters, pardalote, and night birds.
There is also a strong Aboriginal
history in the area and we will spend time looking at some of the
area's art sites.
Leaving the Park for our homeward
journey we will travel through the Blue Hills Station to the southern
end of the Canning Stock Route then onto Wiluna, Sandstone, Paynes
Find and New Norcia.
| Day
1 |
Perth
- Mt Magnet |
LD |
|
| Day
2 |
Mt Magnet
- Kumarina |
BLD |
| Day
3 |
Kumarina
- Newman - Talawana Track |
BLD |
| Day
4 |
Talwana
Track - Rudall River National Park |
BLD |
| Day
5 |
Rudall
River National Park |
BLD |
| Day
6 |
Rudall
River National Park |
BLD |
| Day
7 |
Rudall
River - Desert Queen Baths |
BLD |
| Day
8 |
Desert
Queen Baths |
BLD |
| Day
9 |
Desert
Queen Baths - Christmas Pool area |
BLD |
| Day
10 |
Christmas
Pool area - Carrawine Gorge |
BLD |
| Day
11 |
Carrawine
Gorge - Running Waters - Carrawine Gorge |
BLD |
| Day
12 |
Carrawine
Gorge - Marble Bar |
BLD |
| Day
13 |
Marble
Bar - South of Newman |
BL |
| Day
14 |
South
of Newman - Paynes Find area |
BLD |
| Day
15 |
Paynes
Find area - Perth |
BL |
NB: The above itinerary may be varied according to
conditions and advice.
Meals included as per above itinerary.
Contact
us for the full Rudall River National Park Expedition / Tag
Along trip dossier!
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