MEMORABLE COACH & 4WD TOURS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 45

SPRING 2020 PROGRAM Vol # 50- August 2020 www.caseytours.com.au Freecall: 1800 999 677 [email protected] 16 Murphy St O’Connor WA 6163 1 Day Tours from Perth Wave Rock & Hippos Yawn Tour Take a trip via rolling farmlands to historic York, then to the Wheatbelt town of Quairading for morning tea. On to Corrigin, Kondinin, Hyden and our destination, Hyden Rock, better known as “Wave Rock”. Visit Hippo’s Yawn, the Wave itself, climb $105 Senior to the top and generally explore this interesting natural wonder. Optional visit to the $109 Adult Lace Museum, Soldier Display or Wildlife Park. Return with a stop at ‘The Corrigin Dog Cemetery’. Including Morning Tea and Entry to Wave Rock.

Thur 13 Aug Mon 7 Sept Thus 12 Nov Tastes of the Northern Valleys Travel north of Perth on the freshly completed Tonkin Highway to Berry Sweet Strawberry Farm before morning tea at the West Coast Honey Farm with honey and honey related products. Over to Local Goat Dairy for handcrafted goats cheese. Through Gingin on the picturesque loop in Gingin Brook before lunch at the Gingin Hotel, a classic country character establishment. We $105 Senior head through the ranges to Toodyay and the Coorinja Winery to sample and purchase produce. Finally, an afternoon visit the $109 Adult House of Macadamia. Including Morning Tea & Hotel lunch. Sat 1 Aug Sun 13 Sept Thur 5 Nov Tastes of the Southern Valleys Winding through the green pastures of the South West Highway for a visit to the Harvey Cheese Factory and Harvey Citrus to purchase some of the delicacies grown on the irrigated farm land. Settling into lunch at the Bull & Bush Hotel in Dardanup. After $105 Senior lunch a visit to one of the stunning wineries of the Ferguson Valley with an afternoon $109 Adult wander in the interesting sprawling village of Gnomesville with thousands of Garden Gnomes taking over the bushland. Including Lunch and wine tasting.

Sun 2 Aug Thur 20 Aug Sun 1 Nov Wed 25 Nov Busselton Jetty & Goose Restaurant The Busselton Jetty is the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, originally built in 1865. We take the train from the shore to the end of the jetty and return to enjoy lunch at the Goose Restaurant boasting wide views of the tranquil Geographe Bay and the iconic Jetty. After lunch there is free time to wander through this pretty seaside town. Including Jetty Train, Morning $105 Senior Tea and Lunch. $109 Adult

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Cambinata Yabbie Farm Tour Come with us and meander through some beautiful countryside and National Parks on a new program travelling to Kurkerin, to enjoy a tour of the Cambinata Yabbie Farm, owned and operated by the Nenke’s since 1990. After touring their famed farm, $120 Senior you will enjoy a lunch of freshly steamed yabbies, salad and freshly made bread. In $125 Adult the afternoon we head for Lake Grace and a quirky drive along the Tin Horse Highway before heading back to Perth. Including Morning Tea, Lunch and Farm Tour.

Sat 8 Aug Thur 22 Oct Fri 20 Nov Western Rock Lobster Day Tour Morning tea in Nambung National Park while you explore the Pinnacle Desert. Furthur north experience the regions multimillion dollar lobster industry first hand by taking a tour of the live lobster processing plant at Cervantes. Observe how the marine crustacean is captured, brought onto shore, sorted, and then live packed in preparation of being dispatched world wide. $120 Senior In the afternoon enjoy a lunch of fresh crayfish and chips before taking a leisurely stroll along the shore of the Indian Ocean. $125 Adult Including Morning Tea, Pinnacles Entry, Half Crayfish Lunch, Rock Lobster Factory Tour.

Sun 9 Aug Sat 24 Oct Fri 27 Nov Alpacas and Olives in the Gardens of the South West Tour Deep into the South West we reach the quaint town of Balingup to wander Jalbrook Estate gardens. Meet, greet and learn about the exquisite alpacas and enjoy a fashion parade featuring some soft sensuous alpaca knitwear. Over to Olivia Grove for lunch $105 Senior and learn the process of Olive production right from the grove. Return to Perth picking $109 Adult up some more local produce along the way. Including Morning Tea and cafe Lunch.

Wed 12 Aug Sun 25 Oct Thur 10 Dec 1 2 1 Day Tours from Perth Bibbulmun Track - Dwellingup First opened in 1979 and now stretching 1003km from Kalamunda to Albany. We head to Dwellingup to experience three sections of this iconic trail, our first walk is a lovely return walk near Inglehope were we enjoy a bush Morning Tea. Our second walk follows the Hotham Valley Railway from the Holyoake Siding into Dwellingup where we head into the hotel for a warm $105 Senior lunch. Our afternoon walk starts south of town and meanders through the eucalypts forest to a striking bush setting and our $109 Adult waiting coach. A refreshment stop in town before returning to Perth. Including Morning Tea & Hotel Lunch. Notes: All walk sections are planned for about 3km in 60-75mins and are optional bring; jacket, walking shoes & drink bottle.

Sun 16 Aug Fri 23 Oct Sun 8 Nov Recycled & Vintage Clothing Shopping Tour Join us in a day of recycled and vintage rack hunting on a Mystery Second-hand Shopping Tour. Travel to series of mystery towns and cruise the main streets browsing through their pre-loved clothing and accessory stores possibly grabbing a bargain $105 Senior along the way. Including Hotel Lunch and a prize for the shopper who scores the best $109 Adult bargain on the day.

Tues 8 Sept Tues 17 Nov Dwellingup Forest Train Up to Dwellingup for morning tea before we board the historic Dwellingup Forest Train that will take you 8 kilometres eastward from Dwellingup to Etmilyn Siding. Hauled by historic Diesel Locomotives along the state’s last surviving lightly built developmental railway. At the end of the line there is a 20 minute walk trail through the beautiful plant life and rare Jarrah $120 Senior Forest. On return to town with free time to enjoy lunch at the Hotel or one of the cafes (or BYO). North along Del Park Road to $125 Adult North Dandalup Dam for afternoon tea at the base of the dam wall. Including Morning Tea, Train Ticket & Afternoon Tea.

Sun 23 Aug Sun 18 Oct Trail Walks in the Darling Scarp We head up into the Darling Scarp to experience three trail walks through the Eucalyptus Forest. With a huge number of National Parks, Conservation Parks, Reserves and State Forests there are hundreds of diverse and interesting trails to choose from. After the first walk we enjoy morning tea and after the second it’s $105 Senior time for lunch. A final walk, a refreshment stop before returning to Perth. Including $109 Adult Morning Tea and Lunch. Note: All walk sections are planned for about 3km in 60- 75mins and are optional bring; hat, walking shoes & drink bottle.

Sat 22 Aug Wed 9 Sept Tues 10 Nov Spring Wildflower Day Tour The Perth Floristic Region offers the interested, inquisitive wildflower hunter many delights throughout Spring. 220km long and 50km wide the area contains over 2100 species of native plants, with 53 endemic to the region and 50% endemic to the South West, (this is a similar number to the whole of the UK). Come out for an interesting and colourful day with our Botanical $105 Senior Guide looking though the array of wildflowers just out of Perth. In September we scout the reserves up around Wannamal and $109 Adult Mogumber, by October we would expect to be in and around the Jarrah forest of the Darling Scarp, but wildflowers can always surprise you. Including Morning Tea, Picnic Lunch and Botanical Guide.

Sun 6 Sept Sat 12 Sept Sun 4 Oct Sat 17 Oct Wreath Lechenaultia Day Tour North onto the Midlands Road for our first wildflower stop and Morning Tea at the old Wannamal School Site. From here it’s out to find Lechenaultia macrantha, the Wreath Lechenaultia. One of the world’s unique, rare and odd flowers, wreath $120 Senior flowers are not endangered but limited to small areas of the wheatbelt. After lunch $125 Adult we stop at another wildflower location with our Botanical Guide on the way back to Perth. Including Morning Tea, Picnic Lunch & Botanical Guide.

Sat 19 Sept Sun 20 Sept Serpentine Falls & Fairbridge Historic Tour Morning tea at Serpentine Falls in the Darling Scarp on the Serpentine River before heading to Fairbridge, between 1913 and 1939, 1195 children came to Fairbridge under the care of the Fairbridge Society. From 1949 until mid-1950, some 270 young people arrived at Fairbridge under the care of the State. Enjoy a tour of Fairbridge’s colourful history, visit the world-renowned $105 Senior Fairbridge Chapel, explore Fairbridge’s fascinating museum, walk through and admire heritage-listed cottages and listen to $109 Adult moving stories about the Fairbridge children of old. Enter the dining room for a delicious lunch before free time to wander the grounds. Including Morning Tea, National Park Entry, Fairbridge Tour & Lunch.

Wed 9 Sept Tues 27 Oct Thur 26 Nov 2 1 Day Festivals & Events Nannup Flower & Garden Festival Tour Through the south west to beautiful Nannup on the Blackwood River. Enjoy Nannup and the Nannup Flower & Garden Festival, stunning stalls, gardens, displays, information and sales. This show has grown in variety and size in the last few years to now $105 Senior be one of our most popular regional events. In the afternoon we take one of the most delightful drives in Western Australia to $109 Adult quaint little town of Balingup. Including Morning Tea. Lunch not Included.

Sat 15 Aug Reynoldson Reserve Festival - Wongan Hills A spectacular display of seven varieties of Verticordia flowering in the Northern Wheatbelt, these petite, diverse flowers give rise to the common name Feather flowers. The name Verticordia is a term derived from Latin verto cor, translated as $105 Senior ‘the turner of hearts. The town will have live entertainment, stalls, photography $109 Adult exhibition as well as a guided walk of the Reynoldson Reserve. Including Botanical Guide & Afternoon Tea.

Sat 31 Oct Melbourne Cup Jump aboard and head into the Australian Bush to settle in at a county hotel to watch The Cup before Lunch. We will run a sweep on the coach, and each passenger will be given a mystery trifecta bet and drink on arrival. Dress in the spirit to enjoy $105 Senior the day with all the fun and laughter of Australia’s biggest horse race with prizes for best dressed male and female. Including $109 Adult Sweepstake, Mystery Trifecta and Hotel Lunch.

Tue 3 Nov Boddington Rodeo Come along with us for a day out at the Boddington Lions Club annual Rodeo. This awesome day that started in 1976 is the largest rodeo in WA and has something for everyone. With a street parade and entertainers wind their way around the street with floats and shop up a storm in the Community Markets. The main event starts $105 Senior after lunch with heats commencing from early morning, with such an entertaining $109 Adult schedule of Riding, Roping, Racing and Steer Wrestling including food, novelty and retail stalls, the Ute Muster and Shearing competition too. What an amazing day out it will be.

Sat 7 Nov Canal Christmas Lights Tour - Mandurah Departing East Perth at 2pm we have an afternoon tea on the way to Mandurah. Free time for dinner in the city centre before boarding our cruise boat to meander the canals enjoying the spectacle of the Christmas lights while enjoying carols and $105 Senior Christmas cheer. Returning to dock we reach east Perth around 10pm. Including Afternoon Tea and Canal Cruise. $109 Adult

Tue 1 Dec Thurs 3 Dec Sat 5 Dec Tues 8 Dec Manjimup Cherry Festival The picturesque town of Manjimup, set within the Jarrah / Karri Forests of the South West of WA, offers an authentic country destination with a rich experience to all who visit. Manjimup is the place to be during the cherry season. The town receives thousands of visitors during the annual Cherry Festival, providing the opportunity for $105 Senior the community of Manjimup to celebrate the cherry season and harvest. The Cherry $109 Adult Festival Carnival is held on the Saturday, including displays, markets & stalls and much more. In the afternoon there is free time to wander the Manjimup Timber Museum and historic gardens. Including Morning Tea.

Sat 12 Dec End of Year Christmas Mystery Tour With Christmas just a short skip and a jump away, we celebrate the end of year touring with a special Mystery lunching experience and if we are lucky a visit from the jolly man himself. Without giving too much away, we will head out of the City for $105 Senior morning tea and onto our country lunch hotel to sit back enjoy the Australian traditional yuletide treats in the company of new- $109 Adult found and past travelling companions. Including Morning Tea & Hotel Lunch. Sun 13 Dec 3 6 Day Shark Bay, Monkey Mia & Kalbarri Inclusions: • Cruise at Monkey Mia • Monkey Mia Dolphins • Ocean Park Aquarium • Rainbow Jungle Parrot Sanctuary • Kalbarri National Park • The Pinnacles Desert • Peron Homestead Hot Baths • HMAS Sydney Memorial • Motel Accommodation • 5 evening meals, 5 breakfasts Accommodation: Motel - 5 nights Coach: Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. Departure Date: 12th August 2020 13th September 2020 11th October 2020 6th November 2020 5th December 2020

Departing From: Cruise from Monkey Mia Capital City Senior Adult meander through Lesueur National Park; the the fascinating marine creatures found in the Perth $1890 $1930 second most diverse flora region in WA. On to heritage listed area including turtles, rays and Optional Single Supplement $400 Port Denison and Geraldton. Note: Entry to the sea snakes. Later enjoy a BBQ dinner at Peron Pinnacles included. Homestead, once an extensive sheep station. Enjoy a dip in the artesian fed hot baths to wind MONKEY SHARK Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) Morning tour of up the day. Note: Monkey Mia, Cruise, Peron MIA 2 BAY Geraldton. Over recent years Geraldton has had Homestead and Ocean Park entries included. some major changes in the town. We visit the HMAS Sydney Memorial overlooking the town Day 4: (FB, MD, Motel) Departing Denham back then take some time to enjoy the new foreshore down the peninsular to the North West Coastal 2 KALBARRI area. Travel along the North West Coastal Highway. Crossing the Murchison River at Galena GERALDTON Highway to Billabong before heading out to Shark Bridge and head to the coast at Kalbarri. Bay. On the peninsula we visit the Stromatolites 1 DONGARA of Hamelin Bay and the extensive Shell Beach Day 5: (CB, PD, Motel) To Kalbarri National Park before reaching Denham, Australia’s most and the stunning gorges of Z Bend & Natures Westerly town for a two night stop. Window. Lunch in Kalbarri at the mouth of PINNACLES the Murchison River. In the afternoon we visit Day 3: (FB, PD, Motel) To Monkey Mia to visit the Rainbow Jungle regarded as Australia’s most wild dolphins that have been gathering in the beautiful parrot habitat, a unique complex with waters off this remote beach for decades. There an amazing array of colours and birds. Note: PERTH is plenty of time to enjoy this calm beach and National Park and Rainbow Jungle entry included. Information Centre before a cruise of the marine park in search of dugongs and turtles. Back Day 6: (CB) Via the Pink Lakes north of Port to Denham for lunch before a visit to “Ocean Gregory to Northampton for Morning Tea. Back Day 1: (MD, Motel) Along the Indian Ocean Drive Park”, an exciting eco-friendly and interactive to Geraldton for lunch before returning to Perth to the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park; aquarium located on the pristine shores of the along the Brand Highway and the rolling hills of enjoy morning tea as you wander this interesting Shark Bay World Heritage Marine Park. The park the Badgingarra sand plains. landscape. Lunch in Jurien Bay, a major base enables guests to see, touch and learn about for the WA fishing industry. In the afternoon we

Wild Dolphin, Monkey Mia

3 4 5 Day Mount Augustus and Walga Rock

Inclusions: • Walga Rock • Sunset BBQ • Jokers Tunnel • Landor Race Track • 2 Nights at Mount Augustus • Motel Accommodation • 4 evening meals, 4 breakfasts, 2 lunches. Accommodation: Motel - 4 nights Limited ensuite rooms available, first in basis. Coach: 4WD Coach, Toilet, Air Cond. Departure Date: 7th September 2020 10th October 2020 Departing From: Capital City Senior Adult Perth $1490 $1550 Optional Single Supplement $280 Day 1: (MD, Basic Motel) North out of Perth Day 3: (CAB, PL, CAD, Cabin) At Mt. Augustus to New Norcia for a morning tea break. On via we enjoy a tour including Edney Spring and Dalwallinu and Wubin along the Great Northern Flintstone Rock. Later a visit to Cattle Pool on MOUNT Highway to Paynes Find where we have a break, the nearby Lyons River for a walk under the river AUGUSTUS then move on to the Gold Mining Towns of gums while while looking back on the sheer Mount Magnet and Cue. northern face of the majestic mount. After WALGA MEEKATHARRA lunch it is an opportunity to rest and relax in ROCK Day 2: (CB, PL, CAD, Cabin) Cue is a well this outback oasis. CUE restored historic Murchison town. On to YALGOO Meekatharra. We leave the bitumen travelling Day 4: (CAB, PD, Basic Motel) Turning south we MT MAGNET to Mount Gould police station, built in the cross the Gascoyne and Murchinson Rivers and DALWALLINU late 1800’s to police Aboriginals who were return to Cue. In the afternoon we visit Walga NEW NORCIA killing settlers’ stock. Picnic lunch, before a Rock, a monolith which is 5 km around the base PERTH visit to Landor Station, famous for its bush race and 1.5 km long, the second largest in Australia. meeting. Arriving at Mount Augustus Station We have a bush BBQ and return to Cue. our home for two nights. Day 5: (CB) On to Yalgoo and a visit to Jokers Tunnel (a mining drive through a hill from one side to the other). Then on to the diagonal road to Morawa for lunch. Through the rural scenery to Perth.

5 8 Day Mount Augustus, Exmouth & Coral Coast

Inclusions: Day 1: (MD, Basic Motel) North out of • Coral Bay Glass Bottom Boat Cruise Perth to New Norcia for a morning tea • Landor Race Track break. On via Dalwallinu and Wubin • Carnarvon Space Museum along the Great Northern Highway to • Kalbarri National Park Paynes Find where we have a break, then • 2 Nights at Mount Augustus move onto the Gold Mining Towns of • Murchison River Gorges Mt Magnet and Cue, The Queen of The • Rainbow Jungle Parrot Centre Murchison. • HMAS Sydney Memorial in Geraldton Day 2: (CB, PL, CAD, Cabin) Cue is a • Motel Accommodation well restored historic Murchison town. • 7 evening meals, 7 breakfasts, 3 lunches. On to Meekatharra. We leave the Accommodation: bitumen travelling to Mount Gould Motel - 7 nights Police Station, built in the late 1800’s Limited ensuite available nights 2-3 , first in basis. to police Aboriginals who were killing Coach: settlers’ stock. Picnic lunch, then Landor 4WD Coach, Toilet, Air Cond. Station, famous for its October bush race meeting. On to Mount Augustus Station. Departure Date: Day 3: (CAB, PL, CAD, Cabin) At Mount Augustus Day 6: (FB, PD, Motel) We visit the Babbage 8th August 2020 we enjoy a tour including Edney Spring and Island Jetty and the Fishing Harbour, then up to 19th August 2020 Flintstone Rock. Later a visit to Cattle Pool on the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum to learn about the role of this dish in the 1969 19th September 2020 the nearby Lyons River for a walk under the river gums while looking back on the sheer northern Apollo 11 moon landing. Travel through the old 29th September 2020 face of the majestic mount. After lunch it is an North West sheep station country, where so many 18th October 2020 opportunity to rest and relax in this outback oasis. over the last 140 years have battled drought and Departing From: great floods. Further south we stop at Overlander Day 4: (CAB, PL, MD, Motel) Heading north west Roadhouse then to Kalbarri for two nights. Capital City Senior Adult from Mount Augustus we travel past Cobra Station Perth $2490 $2550 and out to the North West Coastal Highway to Day 7: (CB, PD, Motel) To Kalbarri National Park and the stunning gorges of Z Bend & Natures Optional Single Supplement $560 Cape Range National Park and the spectacular scenery of Charles Knife Road, where oil was first Window. Lunch in Kalbarri at the mouth of found in Western Australia in the 1950’s. the Murchison River. In the afternoon we visit Rainbow Jungle regarded as Australia’s most Day 5: (FB, MD, Motel) Exmouth is growing rapidly beautiful parrot habitat, a unique complex with with its lovely year round weather and great an amazing array of colours and birds. Note: recreation activities. It is the centre for the Navy National Park and Rainbow Jungle entry included. Nor-West Cape Base. We travel to the head of the Day 8: (CB) To Geraldton, via the coastal road past MT Gulf then return to town for morning tea. Enjoy a EXMOUTH AUGUSTUS glass bottom boat cruise on Coral Bay to view the Hutt Lagoon on to the former convict station of CORAL BAY beautiful coral of Ningaloo Reef. In the afternoon Lynton, then to Northampton for morning tea and CARNARVON MEEKATHARRA to our accommodation at Carnarvon. Note: Boat Geraldton for lunch. We visit the breathtaking HMAS Sydney Memorial. Afternoon return to CUE Cruise included. KALBARRI Perth along the Indian Ocean Drive. GERALDTON DALWALLINU PERTH

Mount Augustus, Gascoyne 5 6 5 Day 4WD Southern Ocean National Parks Inclusions: • Stirling Range National Park • Porongurup National Park • D’Entrecasteaux National Park • Fitzgerald River National Park • Cape Le Grand National Park • Cape Arid National Park • Torndirrup National Park • Mt Frankland National Park • Motel Accommodation • 4 evening meals, 4 breakfasts, 1 Lunch. Accommodation: Motel - 4 nights Coach: 4WD Coach, Toilet, Air Cond. Departure Date: Cape Le Grand National Park, Esperance 24th July 2020 11th October 2020 Day 1: (MD, Motel) Climbing the Darling Scarp Day 4: (FB, PD, Motel) Around the otherside 13th November 2020 through the Dryandra Forest to the Wheatbelt of Princess Royal Harbour to the Torndirrup and lunch in Lake Grace. To Lake King then South National Park and the newly redeveloped Gap & 10th December 2020 East to Ravensthorpe and Esperance our home Natural Bridge. Lunch in Albany before heading Departing From: for two nights. into the Stirling Range and Porongurup National Capital City Senior Adult Park, dinner in Mt Barker before returning to Day 2: (CB, PL, MD, Motel) Morning visit to Cape Albany. Perth $1340 $1390 Arid National Park and the mouth of the Thomas Optional Single Supplement $320 River over to Cape Le Grand National Park with Day 5: (CB) Along the stunning Southern its spectacular white beaches and interesting Ocean we stop at Walpole and visit the Mt PERTH rocky headlands. After a wander down the Frankland Lookout. Across Fernhook Falls for a sand we drive over to the west of Esperance to beautiful drive on Chesapeake Road through the LAKE LAKE Twilight Bay. D’Entrecasteaux National Park to Northcliffe. CAPE GRACE KING Lunch in Manjimup before returning to Perth ARID Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) Along the Southern after covering the great National Parks of the Ocean Road to Starvation Harbour and past Southern Ocean. ESPERANCE Jerdacuttup Lakes to Hopetoun. Into the MANJIMUP HOPETOUN Fitzgerald River National Park along Hamersley Drive, via Jerramungup on the way to Albany. NORTHCLIFFE ALBANY 4 Day South West Delights Cherries-Wine-Lavender-Berries-Alpacas-Beer-Cider-Cheese

Inclusions: Day 1: (MD, Motel) Travel to the Harvey Cheese • Donnelly River Cruise Factory on the way to Donnybrook, the heart of • Harvey Cheese Factory one of WA’s richest fruit growing regions. We • Jalbrook Estate Alpacas visit a wholesaler for some apples and stone • Bunbury Farmers Market fruit after lunch in town. Its a short hop to enjoy • Barrecas Winery a tasting of the local wines at Barrecas Winery. • Aristos Waterfront Cafe Bunbury Then make our way via Greenbushes Pool and • Motel Accommodation mine site to Pemberton our home for the next • 3 evening meals, 3 breakfasts, 1 lunch. three nights. Accommodation: Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) Through the forest to Motel - 3 nights the Lavender and Berry Farm east of Pemberton Coach: for morning tea in the gardens, into Pemberton. Time for lunch in town and a visit to the Museum Day 3: (FB, RD, Motel) A stunning morning Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. housed in the original school building of the early drive through the Donnelly Mill Region to Departure Date: settlement. We take an afternoon cruise on the Nannup. Spend the morning browsing the craft shops in the town of Nannup. Enjoy the 13th November 2020 picturesque and tranquil Donnelly River, amongst a unique and diverse ecosystem that is only striking countryside as you follow the beautiful 1st December 2020 accessible by boat. Return to Pemberton. Blackwood River to Balingup on the “Blackwood 10th January 2021 Scenic Drive”. Learn about the alpacas at the Departing From: Jalbrook Estate. Wonder the quaint town of Balingup before heading to Bridgetown where Capital City Senior Adult we visit the Bridgetown Brewery. Enjoy a relaxing Perth $1190 $1240 dinner at the Motel. Single Supplement $240 Day 4: (FB, PL) To the coast at Busselton to enjoy the sunshine wandering the seaside. To Bunbury PERTH where we enjoy a late fish and chips lunch at the Aristos Waterfront Cafe, opened by the ‘Surprise Chef’ himself. Finally a stop in at the Bunbury Farmers Market before we return to Perth after a BUNBURY DONNYBROOK wonderful four days indulging in the South West NANNUP MANJIMUP and its delights. PEMBERTON 7 8 Day Holland Way & Golden Quest Discovery Trail

Inclusions: Celebrating the achievements and • Wave Rock & Hippos Yawn • Hannans North Tourist Mine endurance of the Goldfields Pioneers • Goldfields Museum • Niagara Dam • Gwalia Museum and Ghost Town • Great Beyond Explorers Hall of Fame • Lake Ballard Art Installation • Motel Accommodation • 7 evening meals, 7 breakfasts, 2 lunches Accommodation: Motel - 7 Nights Coach: 4WD Coach, Air Cond, Toilet Departure Date: 4th November 2020

Departing From: Capital City Senior Adult Perth $2190 $2250 Optional Single Supplement $620

LAVERTON LEONORA

LAKE BALLARD MENZIES Hannan St, Kalgoorlie, early 1900’s Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) Passing through the Hawks Nest, and John Aspinall’s Grave. Arriving in SOUTHERN CROSS KALGOORLIE State Barrier Fence and on to the Breakaways, Laverton, we explore The Great Beyond Explorers COOLGARDIE McDermid Rock and past Lake Johnston along the Hall of Fame before returning to our Leonora PERTH John Holland Way. Re-joining the John Holland accommodation. Track, we continue on to Victoria Rocks for a stop HYDEN before arriving at Coolgardie, ‘The Mother of the Day 7: (CB, PL, MD, Motel) We complete our Goldfields.’ Overnight in Kalgoorlie. trek along the Golden Quest Discovery Trail BROOMEHILL through the old gold mining towns of Mt Ida Day 4: (CB, RD, Motel) Today we explore and Copperfield before arriving at the ‘Inside the historic streetscape of Kalgoorlie and its Australia’ Installation at Lake Ballard, featuring pioneering gold-rush history. A visit to Hannans 51 sculptures by renowned English Sculpture Sir North Tourist Mine, the WA Kalgoorlie Boulder Antony Gormley. We continue south to Ularring Day 1: (MD, Motel) Travel via Pumphreys Bridge Museum and the Superpit lookout overlooking Soak and site of Davyhurst before passing Credo and the Dryandra Forest to Narrogin for lunch the immense open cut mine. We wander town in Station and exploring the old station buildings. then the Tin Horse Highway through Kulin. In the afternoon before dinner at one of Kalgoorlie’s After a stop at Rowles Lagoon, an unexpected the afternoon we settle into the motel in Hyden. many hotels. body of fresh water, we return to the sealed road With an afternoon visit to Wave Rock and Hippos via Broadarrow Hotel and complete our circuit of Day 5: (CB, PL, MD, Basic Motel) We begin the the Golden Quest Discovery Trail. Yawn. Golden Quest Discovery Trail with a stop at Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) Passing Dumbleyung we the Ghost Town of Kununalling via Siberia and Day 8: (CB) Following the Golden Pipeline back visit Donald Campbell’s replica Bluebird. Starting Goongarrie to Menzies. Leaving the highway, to Perth. The pipe provides the essential water the Holland Way in Broomehill we discover the we detour to Niagara Dam and the ‘Living Ghost supply to allow the Goldfields to flourish, this rich history of the John Holland Track, cut in Town’ of Kookynie and the historic Grand Hotel ambitious feat was an engineering masterpiece 1893. Then we start off following the footsteps before continuing on to Leonora. with tragic outcomes. We arrive back in Perth having retraced the footsteps of John Holland, of the pioneering John Holland as we retrace Day 6: (CB, MD, Basic Motel) This morning we the route he cut to the goldfields. You’ll pass by the Goldfields Pioneers and the engineers that explore the restored mining town of Gwalia with brought life-giving water to the goldfields. Nyabing and Lake Grace, with its shallow salt the museum and historic Hoover House, built by lake and a superb lookout. Continue through rich former US President Herbert Hoover. We return farmland before reaching Newdegate and Hyden. to the Golden Quest Discovery Trail and visit a number of historic sites, including Mt Morgans,

Gormley Statues, Lake Ballard, WA

7 8 8 Day Historic Goldfields, Esperance & Albany Departing on the Prospector Train Inclusions: • Lake Ballard Art Installation Day 1: (MD, Motel) Departing • Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges from the East Perth Railway • Esperance Boat Cruise terminal early we relax aboard • Super Pit in Kalgoorlie the Prospector Train along the • National ANZAC Centre Avon River up the Darling Scarp • Great Southern Wine Tasting into the wheatbelt and through • Perth to Kalgoorlie Train Journey the goldfields to Kalgoorlie for • Motel Accommodation three nights. • 7 evening meals, 7 breakfasts. Day 2: (CB, PD, Motel) Off to see Accommodation: the old Gold Towns to the north, Motel - 7 nights starting in Broad Arrow before Coach: lunch then Ora Banda. North again from here is Menzies. Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. From Menzies we head west Departure Date: to the world renowned Antony 4th August 2020 Gormley statues on Lake Ballard. Return to Kalgoorlie Prospector Train to Kalgoorlie 3rd October 2020 Day 3: (CB, MD, Motel) We have Day 6: (FB, MD, Motel) Departing Esperance it 20th November 2020 a tour of Kalgoorlie and Boulder then free time is on to Ravensthorpe and Jerramungup before for lunch before a visit to the Super Pit lookout turning out to Bremer Bay. We have a delightful Departing From: and the famous Two Up Ring. We finish up the time in Bremer Bay visiting the town, the very Capital City Senior Adult day with an optional tour of Questa Casa on Hay beautiful beaches and scenery in the area. Later Street. Note: Questa Casa not included. we reach Albany for the last two nights. Perth $2190 $2250 Day 4: (CB, MD Motel) South via Coolgardie to Day 7: (FB, MD, Motel) Departing Albany to With TransWA Voucher $2150 Norseman where over 100 tonne of Gold has Southern West Australia’s highest peak, Bluff Optional Single Supplement $620 been taken out of the ground here since 1892. Knoll in the Stirling Ranges. Then via the very Continuing through Salmon Gums and the area impressive Stirling Range Drive to Mt Barker. LAKE BALLARD heavily affected by fire in November 2015, to Return to Albany for a wine tasting. Note: Wine MENZIES Esperance for two nights. tasting included. Day 5: (CB, MD, Motel) A full day in Esperance Day 8: (CB) Morning tour of Albany City then to KALGOORLIE PROSPECTOR TRAIN commences with a boat cruise in the harbour Mount Clarence and The National ANZAC Centre COOLGARDIE PERTH and nearby stunning islands. After lunch enjoy on Mount Adelaide. After lunch travel via Albany NORSEMAN some free time to explore Esperance. We take a Highway through Kojonup and Williams to return delightful trip along the coast, Twilight Drive and to Perth. Note: Entry to ANZAC Centre included. ESPERANCE return to Esperance via Pink Lake. Note: Boat RAVENSTHORPE Cruise included. BREMER BAY ALBANY

The Pinnacles, Nambung NP 9 8 Day Karijini, Coral Bay & Shark Bay With Botanical Guide Inclusions: • Karijini National Park • Tom Price Mine Tour • On-board Botanical Guide • Colour Coded Field Guide • Coomberdale Wildflower Farm • Yardie Creek Boat Cruise • Monkey Mia Dolphins • Ocean Park Aquarium • Hamelin Pool Stromatalites • Cape Range National Park • HMAS Sydney Memorial • Motel Accommodation • 7 evening meals, 7 breakfast, 1 lunch. Accommodation: Motel - 7 nights Ningaloo Reef, Coral Bay Coach: Day 1: (MD, Motel) We fly to the Iron Ore station country, where so many over the last Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. mining town of Paraburdoo and travel to 130 years have battled drought and great Departure Date: Tom Price. The service town for the Mount floods. Further south on the road to Shark 18th August 2020 Tom Price Mine operated by Rio Tinto. Bay we come to Hamelin Pool to see the Departing From: ancient Stromatalites. Spend the night at Day 2: (CB, PL, PD, Motel) We have a Denham. Capital City Senior Adult conducted tour of the mine then into Perth $2990 $3050 Karijini National Park. Some of the Gorges Day 6: (CB, PD, Motel) A morning visit we see today are as impressive as any you to Monkey Mia to see those magnificent Optional Single Supplement $560 would see in Australia. We visit Dales Gorge, creatures of the wild, dolphins. Optional Circular Pool and Fortescue Falls. In the Shark Bay boat cruise available. Later evening enjoy a bush BBQ in the spectacular “Ocean Park”, an exciting eco-friendly and Pilbara Scenery. Note: Tour of Tom Price interactive aquarium that is located on mine included in your fare. the pristine shores of the Shark Bay World Day 3: (CB, MD, Motel) Departing Tom Heritage Marine Park, and enables guests to EXMOUTH KARIJINI see, touch and learn about many fascinating NAT PARK Price we travel via Parabadoo to Nanutarra marine creatures that are found in this CARNARVON TOM on the Ashburton River. Onto Cape Range PRICE heritage listed area. Evening BBQ at Peron SHARK BAY National Park and the spectacular scenery Homestead. Note: Monkey Mia & Ocean of Charles Knife Road, where oil was first Park included in your fare. Boat Cruise not ( found in Western Australia in the 1950’s. On GERALDTON to Exmouth. included. PERTH Day 4: (FB, MD, Motel) Exmouth, a most Day 7: (CB, MD, Motel) Back to the fascinating place, the centre for the Navy North West Coastal Highway through Nor-West Cape Base. We travel to the head Northampton to Geraldton. On the shores of the Gulf looking for whales migrating of Champion Bay this town has undergone down the coast, further down the coast we some magnificent redevelopment in the last take a cruise on Yardie Creek flowing out of few years and has been given a new lease the ranges. Return to town for Lunch. Visit of life. We tour the town and visit the HMAS Coral Bay in the afternoon with beautiful Sydney Memorial. white sands and fringing coral of Ningaloo Day 8: (FB) Off the coast in search of the Reef, then to our accommodation at wildflowers of the Northern Wheatbelt, its Carnarvon. Note: Yardie Creek included. early in the season but with a keen eye we hope to find interesting colours in the road Day 5: (FB, MD, Motel) We visit the verge. We visit the Coomberdale Wildflower Sturt Desert Pea Babbage Island Jetty and the Fishing Farm for a talk on flower growing and Harbour. This is the old North West, sheep exporting before returning to Perth.

Hamersley Range, Karijini National Park 9 10 14 Day Experience Extraordinary WA Along the Coast from Perth to Broome Inclusions: • Flight from Broome • The Pinnacles • HMAS Sydney Memorial • Kalbarri National Park • Carnarvon Space Museum • Glass Bottom Boat Cruise, Coral Bay • Karijini National Park • Millstream-Chichester National Park • North West Shelf Visitors Centre • Motel Accommodation • 13 evening meals, 13 breakfasts, 4 lunches. Accommodation: Motel - 13 nights Coach: 4WD Coach, Air Cond, Toilet. Departure Date: Yardie Creek, Cape Range, WA 3rd August 2020 Day 3: (CB, MD, Motel) Returning to the North visit Dales Gorge, Circular Pool and Fortescue Broome to Perth 9th September 2020 West Coastal Highway the county changes Falls at the East end of the park as well as Oxer Departing From: to open plains and sprawling sheep stations. and Junction Pool lookouts in the West end. Continuing to Carnarvon on the Gascoyne River. Capital City Senior Adult Day 9: (CB, PL, RD, Motel) Departing Tom Price Day 4: (FB, MD, Motel) Exploring Carnarvon we we follow the Rio Tinto railway line towards the Perth $5250 $5290 visit a plantation on the banks of the Gascoyne coast. Passing through Millstream - Chichester Optional Single Supplement $1200 to taste the local produce before heading up to National Park an oasis in the desert nestled the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum within the chocolate brown rocks of the BROOME to learn about the role of this dish in the 1969 Chichester Range dotted with spinifex and ( Apollo 11 moon landing. Later we visit the One snappy gums. In the afternoon we reach the PORT HEDLAND Mile Jetty built in 1897 to ship wool and livestock massive export facilities of the Pilbara. KARRATHA to Fremantle. This precinct also houses the Day 10: (CB, RD, Motel) Originally developed for EXMOUTH MILLSTREAM Railway & Shearers Hall of Fame. Note: Space NAT. PARK and Jetty Museums included. Iron Ore export Karratha’s economic export base CORAL BAY now includes sea-salt, ammonia and Liquefied KARIJINI NAT. PARK Day 5: (FB, MD, Motel) We continue North Natural Gas from the North West Shelf, Pluto to Coral Bay for a glass bottom boat cruise to and Gorgon. We tour around this swiftly growing KALBARRI view the striking coral of Ningaloo Reef before town in its hue of red dust and high vis. free time to snorkel or swim on the reef. We GERALDTON stay the night at Exmouth, the centre for the Day 11: (CB, CAD, Motel) Morning visit to Cossack, the oldest port on the Pilbara coast. To PINNACLES Navy Nor-West Cape Base and the Harold E Holt Communications Base. Note: Boat cruise Port Hedland still pumping out millions of tonnes PERTH included. of Ore from around Newman. Day 6: (FB, MD, Motel) We travel to the head of Day 12: (CAB, PL, MD, Motel) Finishing off our the Gulf to take in the view from the Vlaming drive along the Great Northern Highway through Day 1: (MD, Motel) Taking the Indian Ocean Lighthouse. Further around the Cape to Yardie Pardoo, Sandfire and the Roebuck Plains to Drive out of Perth, we take in the sparkling Creek in the Cape Range National Park, a Broome. Indian Ocean on our West. Through many beautiful, rugged, iconic WA coastline. Returning Day 13: (FB, PD, Motel) John Forrest chose the cray fishing towns; Jurien Bay, Green Head & to Exmouth with an optional Whale Watching location of Broome in 1883 and the Pearling Leeman, to Dongara for lunch. Visit the HMAS cruise in the afternoon or time to relax by the industry quickly moved in to set its base up in the Sydney Memorial overlooking Geraldton, via pool. Note: Boat Cruise not included. protection of Roebuck Bay. A multicultural town Northampton and the Lynton Convict Depot to from the start the influences of many nations Kalbarri. Day 7: (FB, PL, MD, Motel) Leaving the Cape and the Coast we enter the Pilbara and the spinifex are still evident in the architecture, cuisine Day 2: (CB, RD, Motel) Out to the spectacular covered ranges which houses an enormous and people. We tour the town, Gantheaume gorges of the Murchison River in Kalbarri amount of Australia’s Iron Ore. We reach Tom Point and have a picnic dinner on Cable Beach National Park, visit Natures Window and the Z Price, WA’s highest town above sea level. watching the last sunset of our journey. Bend before returning to town. In the afternoon Day 8: (CB, PL, PD, Motel) Into Karijini National Day 14: (FB) Optional tour to Willie Creek Pearl after viewing the coastal gorges we enjoy the Farm before we fly out, having loved the West Murchison River as the sun sets. Dinner at Finlays Park, some of the gorges we see today are as impressive as any you would see in Australia. We Australian Coast, National Parks and the beautiful BBQ, a Kalbarri institution. Indian Ocean.

Fern Pool, Karijini National Park, WA 11 12 10 Day Broome to Kununurra Tour The Beauty of the Kimberley Inclusions: • Airfares to Broome & from Kununurra • Windjana Gorge • Tunnel Creek • Geikie Gorge Cruise • Bungle Bungle Range • Lake Argyle Cruise • Ord River Cruise • Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park • Ensuited Accommodation • 9 evening meals, 9 breakfasts, 2 lunches Accommodation: Ensuite Accommodation- 9 nights Coach: 4WD Coach, Toilet, Air Cond. Departure Date: 19th August 2020 Kununurra to Broome - 28th August 2020 Tunnel Creek, Napier Range, WA Departing From: Day 5: (FB, CAD, Ensuited Safari Tent) Through and bust history dating back to the Halls Creek Capital City Senior Adult the Mueller Ranges and Mary Pool to Halls Creek, gold rush. In the afternoon we reach the hub of one of the early settlements of the Kimberley the East Kimberley, Kununurra. Note: Helicopter Perth $4990 $5050 and now the northern end of the Tanami Track not included, approx $350. Optional Single Supplement $900 and Canning Stock Route. We cross the Ord River for the first time and reach the Bungle Bungle Day 8: (FB, MD, Motel) Out to Lake Argyle for an Camp at the start of the Spring Creek Track. informative cruise on the lake, with the chance to feed fish, spot freshwater crocs and swim. In the Day 6: (CAB, PL, CAD, Ensuited Safari Tent) Taking afternoon we lower 98m to the bottom of the the windy track into Purnululu National Park to dam wall to board another cruise 55km along the WYNDHAM visit The Bungle Bungle Range with an elevation Ord River and Lake Kununurra back to our motel. as high as 578m the famous sandstone domes Note: Lake Argyle and Ord River Cruises included.

WINDJANA are unusual and visually striking with their LAKE striped in alternating orange and grey bands. The Day 9: (FB, PL, MD, Motel) Optional morning flight over Lake Argyle and The Bungles followed BROOME ARGYLE banding of the domes is due to differences in clay content and porosity of the sandstone layers. by time in and around Kununurra. A truly FITZROY BUNGLE amazing place; beautiful, fertile, interesting and CROSSING BUNGLE Take the hike into Cathedral Gorge and along Piccaninny Creek. Return to our accommodation, relaxing. We tour through the irrigated fields and sit around our camp fire absorbing the beauty of visit the Stonecraft Gallery, Sandalwood Factory the outback. Note: Park entry included. and Hoochery Distillery. Note: Hoochery Tour included. Scenic Flight not included, approx $320. Day 7: (CAB, MD, Motel) Optional morning Day 1: (PD, Motel) Landing in Broome you are helicopter flight from the camp over the ground Day 10: (FB) Returning home having fallen in love met by our friendly tour staff and luxury 4WD we covered yesterday and a large section of with the Kimberley. coach. Settle into the Broome motel before a Mabel Downs Station. North to Wyndham on the picnic dinner watching the sunset on the beach Gulf of Cambridge and the main port between while getting to know your fellow passengers. Broome and Darwin. This town has had a boom Day 2: (FB, RD, Motel) A relaxing day touring Broome including China town, the Port, Gantheaume Point finishing up at feeding time at Malcolm Douglas Crocodile Park. Note: Croc Park included. Day 3: (FB, MD, Ensuited Safari Tent) To the banks of the Fitzroy River which runs 733km from high in the King Leopold Ranges to the mouth in King Sound. We lunch at Willare. Back on the Great Northern Highway we hit the river again at the town of Fitzroy Crossing. Afternoon cruise on the Fitzroy River through Geikie Gorge. Checking into the Fitzroy Crossing Resort. Note: River Cruise included. Day 4: (FB, PD, Ensuited Safari Tent) North to the Napier Range and Windjana Gorge for lunch before a wander along the Lennard River with a great number of crocodiles basking on the sandbanks in the sun. Skirting the Oscar Range to Tunnel Creek, we have the opportunity to walk through this 750m, 15m wide and up to 12m high tunnel; one of WA’s most interesting natural features. Enjoy an evening bush BBQ in the beautiful Napier Ranges before returning to Fitzroy Crossing. Note: Park entry included. Cockburn Ranges, WA 11 12 4 Day Northern Wildflowers With Botanical Guide Inclusions: • Botanical Guide • Colour Coded Field Guide • Coomberdale Wildflower Farm • Coalseam National Park • HMAS Sydney Memorial • The Pinnacles in Nambung National Park • Motel Accommodation • 3 evening meals, 3 breakfasts Accommodation: Motel - 3 nights Coach: Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. Departure Date: 25th August 2020 1st September 2020 8th September 2020 15th September 2020 22nd September 2020 Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) To Mullewa and flowers then via the Ajana Rd to reach the Departing From: a wonder in the flowers on the hillside coast at the mouth of the Murchison River. Capital City Senior Adult lookout. In town a visit to one of the many Lunch in Kalbarri. In the afternoon a visit churches built by Monsignor John Hawes to Bluff Point then via the coastal road to Perth $1290 $1340 and pause for morning tea. Continuing to Northampton and later return to Dongara. Optional Single Supplement $270 Pindar, travel via the lovely countryside to Tardun and another walk in the flowers. Day 4: (FB) After a stop at Port Denison we Day 1: (MD, Motel) Through Bindoon and travel via the Brand Highway for a morning the gentle hillside farmlands to the old On to Canna’s old camp site for a delightful walk amongst the Everlastings. Across to the flower stop. Then on to Cockleshell Gully Rd school site at Wannamal for morning tea for morning tea and a flower stop. To the and a delightful walk in the bush with our Yalgoo Morawa Road to see the beautiful Wreath Leschenaultia, a unique flower seaside of Jurien Bay for lunch. Afternoon wildflower guide. We visit the Coomberdale drive to The Pinnacles in Nambung National Wildflower Farm for a very interesting often growing in disturbed gravel. Afternoon break in Morawa, return to Dongara. Park. Later our last flower walk at Nilgen talk and display. To Carnamah for lunch Reserve before our return to Perth. Note: then via Three Springs and Mingenew to Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) After a visit to Entry to Pinnacles included. Coalseam National Park for afternoon break. Geraldton’s HMAS Sydney Memorial we Everlastings cover the ground in good years. continue on the North West Coastal Hwy to Note: Program details may change due to Later to our accommodation at Dongara. Binnu with a bush morning tea amongst the variations in flower growth from season to season.

4 Day Outback Wildflowers With Botanical Guide Inclusions: Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) Onto New Norcia, • Botanical Guide Australia’s only Monastic Town steeped • Colour Coded Field Guide in history, tradition, and architecture. We • The Pinnacles view amazing art in the Art Gallery. After • Coomberdale Wildflower Farm morning tea we visit Ricka Ericson Reserve • New Norcia Art Gallery and move onto Mount O’Brien reserve for • Motel Accommodation more flowers. On to lunch at Wongan Hills • 3 evening meals, 3 breakfasts and in the afternoon Reynoldson Reserve Accommodation: for another walk in the flowers. Return to Motel - 3 nights Dalwallinu. Coach: Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) We travel north along the Great Northern Highway into Departure Date: the Station and Goldfields country. 29th September 2020 We are out in the scrub seaching for a Departing From: range of flowers including the beautiful Capital City Senior Adult Wreath Leschenaultia, a unique flower Perth $1290 $1340 often growing in disturbed gravel. In the afternoon it is out of the station country Station Country Flowers Optional Single Supplement $270 to the Wheatbelt towns of Morawa and Day 1: (MD, Motel) Travel via Toodyay for Perenjori and return to Dalwallinu. flowers. Then the seaside town of Jurien Bay morning tea break then onto Goomalling, for lunch. Afternoon drive to the Pinnacles Wyalkatchem for lunch with optional visit to Day 4: (FB) A visit to Coomberdale in Nambung National Park. Later our last the Agricultural Museum. North to Koorda Wildflower Farm is delightful. On then flower stop is at Nilgen Reserve before our then via Kalannie to Dalwallinu and a walk in west to Badgingarra for morning tea. Down return to Perth. the flowers of the Old Well. Cockleshell Gully Road and a walk in the

13 14 4 Day Wheatbelt & Wave Rock Wildflowers With Botanical Guide

Inclusions: Day 1: (MD, • Botanical Guide Motel) Travel via • Colour Coded Field Guide Greenmount Hill and • Hyden Lace Display the Great Eastern • Wave Rock Entry Highway past the • Walkers Hill Winery Tasting blue Lechenaultia • Mulkas Cave flowers to Cunderdin. • Tin Horse Highway • Motel Accommodation South east to the • 3 evening meals, 3 breakfasts. Charles Gardner Accommodation: Nature Reserve for a Motel - 3 nights wildflower walk and Bruce Rock for lunch. Coach: Continuing through Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. the fertile soils of the Tin Horse Highway, Kulin Departure Date: Wheatbelt we come 6th October 2020 across The Boot Leptospermum, Chamelaucium, Synaphea Departing From: Mile, an interactive tourist display unlike any and Acacia. Afternoon visit to the Walkers Capital City Senior Adult other before reaching our home for three Hill Winery for a tasting. Though Newdegate nights in Hyden. to Lake Grace and return to Hyden. Perth $1290 $1340 Optional Single Supplement $270 Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) We spend the day Day 4: (FB) Travelling via the Tin Horse exploring the interesting features of the Highway to Kulin, Eucalyptus macrocarpa is region, Wave Rock, Hippos Yawn, The Lace the flora emblem of the Shire of Kulin, we Place, Toy Soldier Display and Mulkas Cave. take a walk along the Macrocarpa Walk Trail. During the day we hope to find Orchids, Returning to Perth with a final wildflower Verticordia, Cassia, Grevillea, Damperia and walk in the forest along the way. others, before returning to Hyden. Note: All entries included. Note: Program details may change due to variations in flower growth from season to Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) Spending the day season. to the South of Hyden in the Shire of Lake Grace we travel along chains of lakes to Mulka’s Cave Lake King. We look for Sundews, Hakea,

4 Day Southern Wildflowers With Botanical Guide Inclusions: lunch. Later we visit Gnomesville, a mysterious • Botanical Guide collection of garden gnomes of all shapes and • Colour Coded Field Guide sizes. We continue on through the beautiful • National Anzac Centre countryside to Donnybrook, Bridgetown and our • Gnomesville accommodation at Manjimup. • Tree Top Walk in the Valley of The Giants Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) On to the Karri Forests • Stirling Range National Park of Pemberton. We enjoy a delightful drive in the • Porongorups National Park forest with our guide explaining the variety of • Motel Accommodation plants that thrive in this lush ecosystem. On via • 3 evening meals, 3 breakfasts. Walpole and Denmark to the giant Tinglewood Accommodation: Trees of the Valley of the Giants. On to Albany Motel - 3 nights our home of two nights. Note: Tree Top Walk Coach: included. Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) The area of Australia Departure Date: which produces the widest variety of wildflowers, the great gem of the Great Southern 13th October 2020 is the Stirling Ranges. Here we stop for walks 20th October 2020 with our botanical guide explaining and pointing Departing From: out the vast array of flowers. Later we visit Mt Capital City Senior Adult Barker and an island of Karri, the Porongorups Perth $1290 $1340 for another floral exploration. Return to Albany. Optional Single Supplement $270 Day 4: (FB) A morning tour of Albany, Mt Clarence and a visit to National Anzac Centre. Day 1: (MD, Motel) A delightful drive into the Later we head home via Kojonup and Williams Darling Range Escarpment from North Dandalup and the delightful countryside of the Great to the picturesque forest town of Dwellingup for Southern. Note: Anzac Centre included. morning tea break. Then over the Murray River and through the forest where we stop for our Note: Program details may change due to botanical guide to explain and show the range variations in flower growth from season to of flora on the forest floor. On to Collie for season. 13 14 11 Day Western Australian Wildflower Tour With Botanical guide Inclusions: • Two night stops at all motels • Botanical Guide • The Pinnacles • Colour Coded Field Guide • HMAS Sydney Memorial • Coalseam Conservation Park • Wave Rock & Hippos Yawn • Tin Horse Highway • Stirling Ranges • Porongorups • Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk • Margaret River Wine Tasting • Busselton Jetty Tram & Observatory • Motel Accommodation • 10 evening meals, 10 breakfast. Accommodation: Motel - 10 nights Coach: Day 1: (MD, Motel) Along the Indian Ocean Verticordia, Cassia, Grevillea, Damperia and Air Suspension, Toilet, Air Cond. Drive to the Pinnacles in Nambung National others, before returning to Hyden. Note: All Park; enjoy morning tea as you wander this entries included. Departure Date: interesting landscape. Lunch in Jurien Bay, 26th August 2020 a major base for the WA fishing industry. Day 7: (FB, MD, Motel) Travelling via the 14th September 2020 In the afternoon we pass through Lesueur Tin Horse Highway to Kulin, Eucalyptus National Park; the second most diverse macrocarpa is the flora emblem of the Shire of Kulin, we take a walk along the Departing From: flora region in WA. On to Port Denison and Dongara. Note: Entry to Nambung included. Macrocarpa Walk Trail. To Lake Grace Capital City Senior Adult for lunch then back to the road we are Perth $3390 $3450 Day 2: (FB, MD, Motel) After a visit to on the lookout for Sundews, Hakea, Optional Single Supplement $700 Geraldton’s HMAS Sydney Memorial we Leptospermum, Chamelaucium, Synaphea continue on the North West Coastal Hwy to and Acacia on the way to Albany. Binnu with a bush morning tea amongst the flowers then via the Ajana Rd to reach the Day 8: (FB, MD, Motel) The area of Australia coast at the mouth of the Murchison River. which produces the widest variety of KALBARRI Lunch in Kalbarri. In the afternoon a visit wildflowers, the great gem of the Great Southern is the Stirling Ranges. Enjoy bush DONGARA to Bluff Point then via the coastal road to DALWALLINU Northampton and later return to Dongara. walks with our botanical guide explaining and pointing out the vast array of flowers. PERTH WAVE Day 3: (FB, MD, Motel) East to Mingenew Later we visit Mt Barker and an island of ROCK and the Coalseam Conservation Park where Karri, the Porongorups for another floral BUSSELTON the Gregory brothers discovered coal exploration. Return to Albany. exposed within the sedimentary layers of ALBANY the banks of the Irwin River in 1846, now in Day 9: (FB, MD, Motel) On to the majestic good years its renowned for its native pink Tinglewood Trees and the Valley of the and white everlastings. Through the wheat, Giants treetop walk then via Denmark and canola and wildflowers to Dalwallinu on the Walpole to the Karri Forests of Manjimup. Great Northern Highway. After lunch we enjoy a delightful drive through the forest to Nannup, an interesting Day 4: (FB, MD, Motel) We travel north quirky town on the banks of the Blackwood along the Great Northern Highway into River. Arriving at Abbey Beach resort on the Station and Goldfields country. We Geographe Bay. are out in the scrub searching for a range of flowers including the beautiful Wreath Day 10: (FB, MD, Motel) Exploring the Leschenaultia, a unique flower often Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park and its growing in disturbed gravel. In the afternoon diverse flora and fauna. From the wind/salt it is out of the station country to the swept coastal shrubs to the majestic Karri Wheatbelt towns of Morawa and Perenjori Trees. We also visit Margaret River and stop and return to Dalwallinu. off for a wine tasting before returning to Busselton. Note: Wine Tasting included. Day 5: (FB, MD, Motel) South to Wongan Hills and out through the wildflowers to Day 11: (FB) A morning visit to the Busselton cross the Great Eastern Highway. We take a Jetty and Underwater Observatory 1.8km walk in a number of Nature Reserves with out to sea. After lunch in town we finish off our botanical guide. A visit to Corrigin Rock the tour on the Swan Coastal Plain with its before reaching Hyden. sandy alluvial soils supporting a whole new variety of flora and fauna. Day 6: (FB, MD, Motel) We spend the day exploring the interesting features of the Note: Program details may change due to region, Wave Rock, Hippos Yawn, The Lace variations in flower growth from season to Place, Toy Soldier Display, and Mulkas Cave. season. During the day we hope to find Orchids,

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