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Perth-based 2018 Tours Brochure Issue 6 January – December 2018 Get Caught in the Travel Web of Aussie Redback Tours • Value for Money • Day Tours • Extended Tours • Art Tours • Fully Accommodated • Shorter distances • Longer stops • Seniors, Groups, and Charters • Air-conditioned Transport • Over 20 Years’ Touring Experience 1300 662 026 www.aussieredbacktours.com.au email: [email protected] All tours are ex Perth and include flights where indicated. Please contact us for prices for other city departures or land only costs. Albany Esperance Explorer – 7 Days (choice of two tour dates) Sat 17 – Fri 23 Feb 2018 or Sun 20 – Sat 26 May 2018 $1,970 (Seniors $1,920) S/Supp $470 Come with us to Albany, the oldest settled town in WA, and Esperance which has some of the best beaches in the world. Day 1 Depart Perth, stop in Collie for morning tea, then a stop at Harvey Dickson’s Country Music Centre in Boyup Brook. Continue through Franklin River, Rocky Gully and stop at Albany. (D) Day 2 Day 5 We visit some of Albany’s attractions – Mt Today we relax on a boat cruise to Woody Island, Clarence and the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial; followed by a leisurely drive in the afternoon the National ANZAC Centre; the Gap; the Natural around the Great Ocean Drive, visiting beaches Bridge and Whale World. (B,D) and bays and the famous Pink Lake. (B,D) Day 3 Day 6 Today we travel to Box Hill, Bremer Bay near the We leave Esperance and head towards Norseman, Southern Ocean, then Jerramungup for lunch. passing Salmon Gums and Lake Dundas. Included: Short stop in Norseman and then it’s on to the We continue to Fitzgerald National Park and • Boyup Brook Music • Woody Island boat Hopetoun where we settle for the night. (B,D) Norseman Hyden Road, travelling on some of the Centre cruise Holland Track and past Lake Johnson. Overnight in Day 4 • ANZAC Centre/Whale • Norseman Hyden. (B,D) World • Holland Track A short drive to Esperance today where we visit Day 7 Cape Le Grand National Park, Lucky Bay, Rossiter • Bremer Bay • Mulka’s Cave/Wave Bay, Hellfire Bay, Le Grande Beach, and Thistle • Hopetoun Rock We explore the Hyden area (Mulka’s Cave and Cove. We also visit Esperance’s Stonehenge! (B,D) • Stonehenge Wave Rock) before heading to Kondinin and Brookton, and finally Perth. (B) Margaret River Food and Wine Trail – 5 Days (choice of two tour dates) Sat 03 – Wed 07 March 2018 or Sun 19 to Thu 23 August 2018 $1,370 (Seniors $1,320) S/Supp $310 Margaret River is one of Australia’s best wine Day 4 and food producing regions, and is known for Today we visit Providore Food and Winery for its scenic coastline, beaches, and forests. wine, liqueur, jam, preserves, olive oil, spice and dessert tastings! Later we enjoy a visit to Day 1 the Eagles Heritage Estate to see the largest Day 5 Departing Perth, we head to Australind for collections of eagles, hawks, falcons, and owls in We visit Dunsborough and Meelup Beach this morning tea, then continue to the iconic Busselton Australia. (B,D) morning, then Bunbury for lunch on our way Jetty to visit the Underwater Observatory. Later home to Perth. (B) we visit the Chocolate Factory and Watershed winery for tastings before stopping at our accommodation. (D) Included: • Busselton • Cheeky Monkey Day 2 Underwater Brewery We explore Boranup Forest and Canal Rocks, Observatory • Providore Food and followed by shopping and sightseeing in Margaret • Margaret River Winery River in the afternoon. (B,D) Chocolate Factory • Eagles Heritage Day 3 • Watershed Winery Estate We visit Leeuwin Estate for a tour and tasting, and • Boranup Forest • Dunsborough the Cheeky Monkey Brewery for lunch, beer and • Canal Rocks • Meelup Beach cider tastings. (B,L,D) • Leeuwin Estate Tour • Bunbury 2 2018 Tours Brochure Issue 6 • January – December 2018 All tours are ex Perth and include flights where indicated. Please contact us for prices for other city departures or land only costs. Tasmania, the “Apple Isle” – 12 Days (choice of two tour dates) Tue 13 – Sat 24 March 2018 or Sat 20 to Wed 31 October 2018 $4,490 (Seniors $4,440) S/Supp $850 Wonderful scenery, abundant wildlife, gourmet food and wine. Explore Hobart city’s sights and waterfront before venturing to Mt Field National Park. Witness the natural beauty of Russell Falls, Lake St Clair, Cradle Mountain, the Freycinet National Park and more. Day 1 Fly to Hobart where we are met by our crew and Day 6 transferred to our motel for dinner and a good night’s sleep. (D) Visit the mining and hydroelectric towns of Rosebery and Tullah on the way to Cradle Day 2 Mountain National Park. Join our Tour Director for Visit Battery Point, Salamanca Place, the Botanical a guided walk around Dove Lake, then meander Gardens and Mt Nelson (amazing views of through the forest and alpine heathlands on Hobart)! Free time later in the city to explore at a purpose-built boardwalk. Overnight stay in leisure. (B,D) Sheffield - town of murals. (B,D) Day 3 Day 7 Day 10 Travel to Australia’s most infamous prison at the We travel to Devonport, on the mouth of the Experience the exquisite beauty of Wineglass Bay penal colony of Port Arthur, then on to Hell’s Mersey River, and continue to Exeter and on a four-hour cruise of the Freycinet Peninsula Kitchen - the channel between Macquarie Heads Beaconsfield (remembered for the tragic with a local guide. Experience breathtaking on the west and Entrance Island on the east. (B,D) Beaconsfield gold mine collapse in 2006). We have Freycinet National Park, with its pink granite a tour of the mine, and then head to Launceston, mountains, coastal dunes and dry eucalypt Day 4 our home for the next two nights. (B,D) forests. (B,L) Travel to New Norfolk and the magnificent Day 11 Mt Field National Park to see the spectacular Day 8 three-tiered Russell Falls. Continue up to Lake On to George Town, the 1805 convict-built pilot Journey to Swansea and historic Ross, the finest St Clair, and visit the Wall in the Wilderness (a station at Low Head, then to Bridport on Anderson nineteenth century village in Australia. Visit fascinating sculpture where artist Greg Duncan Bay, Granite Point, and Scottsdale. An afternoon the exquisite Ross Bridge with its 186 carvings has hand-carved a series of scenes into panels visit to the Bridestowe Lavender Estate for some depicting Celtic symbols, flora, fauna and notable commemorating those who shaped the area’s past famous lavender ice-cream! Return to Launceston personalities of the day, then on to Oatlands with and present). We continue on a scenic drive to via Lilydale’s stunning waterfalls. (B) its large number of colonial sandstone buildings, Queenstown. (B,D) many of them built by convict labour. Later Day 9 we make our way on the Midlands Highway to Day 5 Visit Legerwood today to look at the Legerwood Bridgewater and Hobart. (B,D) Carved Memorial Trees (sculptures of World War Across to Strahan today for a Gordon River Cruise, Day 12 where the wilderness comes to the water’s edge. One soldiers of Dorset, Tasmania). Next stop is the Stop at Sarah Island and discover the ruins of the old tin town of Derby, then on to Branxholm, and This morning we visit Mt Wellington which rises penal colony. After lunch on board we return to St Helens, situated on George Bay, known as the to 1,269 metres above sea level and is frequently Strahan for free time to explore this historic town. game fishing capital of Tasmania and renowned covered by snow, then we say our goodbyes before (B,L) for its oysters. (B,D) our flights home. (B) Included: • Flights Perth- • Sheffield Hobart-Perth • Launceston • Port Arthur • Legerwood Carved • Wall of Wood Memorial Trees • Russell Falls • Bridestowe Lavender • Lake St Clair Estate • Queenstown • Freycinet Peninsula • Strahan • Wineglass Bay cruise • Gordon River cruise • Ross Bridge • Sarah Island • Cradle Mountain 2018 Tours Brochure Issue 6 • January – December 2018 3 All tours are ex Perth and include flights where indicated. Please contact us for prices for other city departures or land only costs. The Great Central Road Experience – 13 Days Mon 02 – Sat 14 April 2018 Adults $3,995 pp (Seniors $3,945 pp) S/Supp $750 A tour for those who wish to discover the Day 5 spectacular scenery of our red centre. Be We drive to Ayers Rock and the Olgas, and amazed by the size of our iconic Uluru and experience the sheer beauty and spiritual the beauty of the nearby Kata Tjuta, marvel presence of these natural formations. Later we at the Coober Pedy “moonscape”, and travel visit the Cultural Centre, and then Yulara Village. along the Great Central Road. There is also an opportunity to fly over both Ayers Rock and the Olgas (own expense). By late Day 1 afternoon we’ll be back at the Rock for a barbecue Depart Perth, heading east along the Great dinner and sunset view! (B,D) Eastern Highway towards Kalgoorlie, stopping at Day 6 Cunderdin’s pump house museum, Southern Cross and historic Coolgardie. Overnight in Kalgoorlie. We leave Yulara today, stopping at Curtin Springs (D) for morning tea. 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