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Lake Eyre – Birdsville Track & Camerons Corner Tour Package
Inclusions
- Return Flights to Adelaide
- Historic Ray Station, Quilpie
- Flinders Ranges
- Burke and Wills Dig Tree
- Silverton Townsite
- Stay at the Birdsville Pub
- Wadlata Outback Centre
- Cross the Cooper Creek
- Whites Mining Gallery
- Jack Absalom Gallery
- Cabin & Motel Accommodation
- 12 evening meals, 13 breakfasts, 6 lunches
State
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria
Accommodation
2 nights cabin
11 nights motel
Departure Dates
7 August 2019
Departure from Perth
Senior
$4,890
Adult
$4,950
Land Only
$4,490
Departure from Melbourne
Senior
$4,690
Adult
$4,750
Land Only
$4,490
Departure from Sydney
Senior
$4,690
Adult
$4,750
Land Only
$4,490
Departure from Adelaide
Senior
$4,290
Adult
$4,350
Land Only
$4,490
Departure from Brisbane
Senior
$4,690
Adult
$4,750
Land Only
$4,490
Departure from Hobart
Senior
$0
Adult
$0
Land Only
$0
Single Accomodation
$1,100
Single Tent Only
$0
14 Day Lake Eyre, Birdsville Track & Camerons Corner

Itinerary Details
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Accommodation
Motels
We use a wide range of Motels as we travel through a wide range of locations. Motels are 3 star or better, some will be 4 or 5 star. All rooms are ensuited. Rooms will be allocated on a twin share basis. (Optional Single Supplement available, please see individual tour details for costing).
Cabins
In some remote regional areas accommodation is limited. In these places we stay at a variety of ‘cabins’ as described below:
- Mount Augustus – Cabins are mining style ‘dongas’ and do not provide an ensuite.
- Ray Station – a restored shearers quarters and associated buildings and do not provide an ensuite.
- Cue – basic motel room with ensuite.
Please note: An optional Single Supplement is available; please see individual tour pages for costings.
Camping
Camping in the Australian Outback is one of the great attractions of touring around the country. Over the years we have refined our processes and equipment to maximize the enjoyment of the camping experience.
Some camping is in the beauty of Australian bush and on other nights we use the facilities of caravan parks, National Parks or stations. Passengers are asked to assist to their capacity in teams to erect the campsite.
Tents are 210cm high and 270cm square at the base, fully floored with fly-screen sealed windows and doors. They are very simple to erect, simply four pegs, a pole in the middle and the tent is up.
Inside the tent sleeping is on suspension camp stretchers with a thin foam mattresses on top. It is recommended passengers bring a pillow and warm bottom sheet and sleeping bag or warm rug to sleep in. Sleeping bags can be hired when booking for $40 per tour per person. You can comfortably fit two friends into each tent, a single supplement is available for some extra space.
There is LED electric floodlighting of the area until after dinner is finished and packed away, we then enjoy the peace of the night bush. A torch is recommended.
Meal Codes and Descriptions
Breakfast
CAB – Camp Breakfast; Cereal, toast, tea & coffee.
BB – Breakfast Boxes; Each room is given a box with all the requirements for cereal and toast.
CB – Continental Breakfast; Provided at motel or at attraction.
FB – Fully Cooked Breakfast; Provided by motel or attraction.
Lunch
PL – Picnic Lunch; Meat, salads, tea & coffee. Could also be Sausage sizzle or hot dogs.
Dinner
CAD – Camp Dinner; Supplied by Casey Tours staff, Usually includes, soup, bbq, vegetables, desert.
PD – Picnic Dinner; Examples include Fish & Chips on Cable Beach or a Sausage sizzle at Uluru.
RD – Restaurant Dinner; Provided at a club, bistro or other establishment.
MD – Motel Dinner; Two or three course evening meal. Provided at the motel.
Notes
Breakfast on the first day and dinner on the last day of all tours is not included. All meals on planes are not included (some will be offered).
Day 1
(RD, Motel) We fly to Adelaide, where we are met by our coach. Then a tour of Adelaide City and surrounds, with free time to explore this delightful city on the Torrens River. Later settle into our accommodation.
Day 2
(CB, MD, Motel) Heading north to Port Pirie. The destination for the lead and zinc ore from Broken Hill. Smelters have been in operation here since 1889, and it became the biggest lead smelter in the world by 1934. Port Pirie is also the home of the ‘Shakka’ model, at 5.5m its the longest white pointer shark caught in South Australia. On to Port Augusta at the northern point of the Spencer Gulf. We visit The Wadlata Outback Centre, a theatrical experience depicting a journey through time in the Flinders Ranges and the Outback of South Australia. Later we visit the Arid Inland Botanical Gardens and the Matthew Flinders lookout over the upper reaches of the Gulf. Note: Wadlata Centre included in your fare.
Day 3
(CB, MD, Motel) A great drive following the Pichi Richi Railway through Hawker to the spectacular Flinders Ranges, where some of the best Outback Scenery in Australia abounds. We visit Wilpena Pound first farmed by the Hill Family in 1899 then the old Copper mining town of Blinman. To Marree.
Day 4
(CB, CAD, Motel) Marree at one time was a major centre on the Ghan Railway to Alice Springs. In the morning we have a optional flight over Lake Eyre. In the afternoon there is time to investigate the charatcters and history of Marree. Note: Flight over Lake Eyre not included. Approx $400.
Day 5
(CB, PL, MD, Motel) It is on to the famous Birdsville Track. With its vast stations and scattered bores. After crossing Cooper Creek we stop at Mungerannie Station. Continuing along the Track north towards Warburton Creek and the Queensland / South Australian Border. We arrive in Birdsville staying two nights at the famous Birdsville Pub.
Day 6
(CB, MD, Motel) This outback town on the Dianantina River is as Iconic as the Harbour Bridge or Uluru. We also visit the Birdsville Race track which comes to life for the Birdsville Races once a year.
Day 7
(CB, PL, RD, Cabin no ensuite) From Birdsville the tour travels east to Betoota and the little cattle town of Windorah in the Queensland Channel Country, then on to Ray Station.
Day 8
(CB, PL, RD, Cabin no ensuite) Ray Station was settled in 1874 by the great grandparents of the current owner, Patsy & Sarah Tully nee Durack. Sarah’s brother the famous Patsy Durack urged them to follow him to Kimberley… they declined. Situated in the heart of Boulder opal country near Quilpie, Ray station’s 600sq km remains one of a select few properties in Australia never to have changed hands since white settlement. We hear stories and view pictures of life on the Western Queensland Plains. In the afternoon we search for opal on the property.
Day 9
(CB, PL, MD, Motel) Back onto the dirt roads and to Eromanga, home to Australia’s largest dinosaur fossils as well as the Eromanga Oil and Gas Basin which produces around one and a half million barrels of oil per year. Heading south west just before the South Australian Border is the Burke & Wills Dig Tree. Here in 1861 the Burke & Wills expedition met its tragic end after having returned from the Gulf of Carpentaria to find the depot abandoned and thus perished. The night at Innamincka.
Day 10
(CB, PL, MD, Motel) Travelling down the Strzelecki Track named after Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki who named Mt Kosciuszko. To Merty Merty Station and east to Cameron’s Corner, the joining of SA, QLD & NSW. On to Tibooburra.
Day 11
(CB, PL, MD, Motel) Depot Glen where in 1845 Explorer Charles Sturt and his expedition were looking for the inland sea. The region was in severe drought and the summer was unbearably hot. For several months the group camped at Depot Glen. We come down the Silver City Highway to Broken Hill.
Day 12
(CB, Motel) A whole day in Broken Hill starting with a town tour and a visit to Jack Absalom Gallery, then learn about the mining industry at Whites Mining Gallery and a visit to the nearby town of Silverton where films such as “Mad Max’ were shot. Note:Whites & Absalom entries included.
Day 13
(CB, RD, Motel) We travel back into South Australia on the Barrier Highway. After lunch have a guided tour of the great heritage copper mining town of Burra. The whole town is classified by the National Trust. Later onto our accommodation in Adelaide for our final night.
Day 14
(CB) A late start before free time in Adelaide, down to Glenelg before heading to the Airport for our return flight after a fabulous tour.
Notes
This tour is accommodated in cabin and motels but due to the remote regions through which we travel the coach will carry all camping gear onboard. In the case of any disruptions (weather, mechanical or other) we may be required to camp.
14 Day Lake Eyre, Birdsville Track & Camerons Corner
See our new 2019 brochure