2014 Spring Discovery tours

KINCHEGA NATIONAL PARK Meeting place: Old Kinchega Homestead car park, Homestead Bend. 2014 GUIDED TOURS WILDERQUEST: TRACK DETECTIVE Join the quest with a Ranger to look for Cost Discovery tours are run by National clues to discover who lives in Kinchega Adult $10 Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) National Park. Look for animal tracks and Child (5-16yrs) $5 during the Easter/autumn, winter and make some of your own. Find out how to Concession $5 spring school holidays in New South read what they are telling us about what Family $25 (2A/2C) Wales Far West Region. the animal is doing and how it moves. Bookings: Not required

The Discovery Walks, Talks and Tours Tour dates: Contact: office. th program offers fantastic insights into September: Thursday 25 T: 08 8080 3200 nd the unexpected delights of your October: Thursday 2 Activity grading: Easy national parks. Tour times: 2pm – 4pm EST. What to bring: Please bring a hat, Developed for all ages and led by Meeting place: Kinchega Woolshed car sunscreen and sturdy shoes specialist Discovery and Aboriginal park, Woolshed Drive Discovery Rangers, these fun and FLOODED FOREST Cost Come and explore the flooded forest. fascinating activities will introduce you Children $10.00 each Learn about the River Red Gums and to the wealth of natural, cultural and Accompanying adults are Free. Black Box trees and other plants and historic heritage, highlight the Bookings: Not required animals of the forest. Be amazed by the Aboriginal, pastoral and natural local Aboriginal people’s crafts and how heritage of the region. These activities Contact: Broken Hill office. they made use of the flooded forest for provide a valuable insight for you to T: 08 8080 3200 hunting and gathering foods. enjoy a national park experience. Activity grading: Easy Tour dates September: Saturday 27th School groups and interested parties What to bring: Please bring a hat, October: Saturday 4th can request tours out of season by sunscreen and sturdy shoes and wear arrangement with the relevant NPWS clothes that you won’t mind getting dirty Tour times: 2pm – 4pm EST. office. OLD KINCHEGA HOMESTEAD Meeting place: Campsite 34, River Drive CULTURAL WALK The information is provided as Join NPWS staff in a guided walk around Cost suggestions and/or requirements, but the Old Kinchega Homestead precinct. Be Adult $10 not limited to. All tours and times are enthralled by the abundance of Aboriginal Child (5-16yrs) $5 subject to change without notice. and European heritage of the area. Concession $5 Discover the history of the park and the Family $25 (2A/2C) Please contact the relevant park for significance of its cultural heritage. Bookings: Not required updated information or view the Accompany an Aboriginal Discovery website. Ranger to view and discuss a variety of Contact: Broken Hill office. Aboriginal sites. Also learn about the T: 08 8080 3200 www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/Whats-On triumphs and tragedies of the enduring Activity grading: Easy years of settlement and pastoralism. What to bring: Please bring a hat, Tour dates sunscreen and sturdy shoes. September: Tuesday 23rd & Tuesday 30th

Tour times: 2pm – 4pm EST.

1 PAROO-DARLING NATIONAL Family $25 (2A/2C) Bookings: Essential Bookings: Essential PARK Contact: Bourke Office Contact: Paroo Darling National Park T: 02 6830 0200 PEERY LAKE TAG-ALONG TOUR Visitor Centre, White Cliffs T: 08 8083 Join a Discovery Ranger in a vehicle Activity Grading: Medium 7900 convoy through Paroo-Darling National What to bring: Wear sturdy shoes. No Park to the spectacular Peery Lake, near Activity grading: Easy. the township of White Cliffs. Peery Lake sandals. Fuel up and BYO food, water and is home to an abundance of birds. Take a What to bring: Please bring a hat, everything required for a full day. sunscreen and sturdy shoes. Please BYO stroll around part of the lakes’ edge and Note: 4WD only. learn about the natural environment and all provisions including food, water and the cultural history of the Park. Witness ensure you fuel-up prior to departure. GUNDABOOKA NATIONAL the life that the water has brought to this Note: This is a 130+km round trip from PARK internationally recognized wetland. Wilcannia utilising the Drive from the Barrier Hwy towards Tilpa on MULAREENYA CREEK WALK Tour dates: Enjoy a guided walk following Mulareenya rd th the eastern side of the Darling. Once the September: Tuesday 23 ; Thursday 25 Creek as it winds its way up Mt. th tag-along departs the Barrier Highway & Tuesday 30 Gunderbooka through sand hills, cypress October: Thursday 2nd the road is dirt. Outback roads are susceptible to flooding and rains, which pine and rocky gorges. Gundabooka Tour times: 9.00am to 12.30pm EST may have cause for the cancellation of National Park is 60 kilometres from the tour. Booking for this tour is Bourke. Meeting place: Paroo-Darling Visitor essential. Centre (PDNP VC), White Cliffs. Tour dates: September: Saturday 20th Cost BOURKE Times: 9am EST. Adult $10 INFORMATION SESSION WITH Child (5-16yrs) $5 DISCOVERY TRAILER Duration: 4 hours Concession $5 Come along and learn about National Meeting Place: Yapa (Mulgowan) Art Family $25 (2A/2C) Parks and wildlife in the Bourke area and site car park, Bookings: Not required have questions answered! Rangers will be at the Bourke Wharf between 10am and Cost Contact: PDNP VC T: 08 8083 7900 3pm for an educational, informative and Adult $10 interactive talk. Activity grading: Easy Child $5 (5-16yrs) Concession $5. Tour dates: What to bring: Please bring a hat, th Family $25 (2A/2C). September: Friday 26 sunscreen and sturdy shoes Bookings: Essential Times: Rangers will be at the Wharf Note: Participating vehicles need to be between 9amto 12pm EST. high clearance Contact: Bourke Office T: 02 6830 0200 Meeting place: Bourke Wharf, Bourke PAROO-DARLING TAG ALONG TO Activity Grading: Easy WILGA WOOLSHED Cost: Free LEDKNAPPER NATURE In your own vehicle tag along with the Ranger to the Wilga precinct on the Bookings: Not required RESERVE Darling River. Wilga was a pastoral lease Contact: Bourke Office T: 02 6830 0200 SPINIFEX TAG ALONG TOUR dating back to the mid 1800’s. The tour Join a Discovery Ranger and Traditional includes a stopover at the Coach & Activity Grading: Easy owner to learn about archaeology, Horses campground on the Darling River landforms, indigenous culture, pastoralist and information on the flora and fauna of history, and park and water the Darling Flood Plains, along with the FLOODPLAIN TAG ALONG TOUR management. The tour will provide an Wilga Woolshed precinct. Join up with a Culgoa ranger for an insight into traditional culture, stories and This tour has been introduced by the informative tour of the Culgoa Floodplain. significance of what Ledknapper Nature Rangers on a trial basis. Your feedback is A tour of the former pastoral properties, Reserve and ‘Country’ means to the appreciated. the river and a drive through the diverse Murrawarri people. If you wish to gain an vegetation communities will enhance your insight into the Reserve, its history, Tour dates: experience of the Bourke area. function and future, this tour is for you. th September: Wednesday 24 The Tag-Along tour visits areas of Tour dates: October: Wednesday 1st Ledknapper Nature Reserve that are September: Saturday 27th Tour times: 10am depart Wilcannia normally restricted to the public. EST. Times: 8am EST. Ledknapper is in the Bourke area.

Duration: 3.5 hours and is approx. Duration: 9 hours and is approx. a Tour dates: th 130km round trip. 240km. September: Saturday 20

Meeting place: Barrier Hwy next to the Meeting Place: Bourke Area Office, 51- Times: 9am EST. 53 Oxley Street, Bourke. Travel to Culgoa Bourke Oval, Wilcannia. (look for the Duration: 7.5 hours and approx. 300km from Bourke for a day trip. ‘driver reviver’ stop during the school round trip. holiday period) Cost Meeting place: Back O’Bourke Exhibition Adult $10 Cost: Centre. Adult $10 Child $5 (5-16yrs) Child (5-16yrs) $5 Concession $5. Cost Concession $5 Family $25 (2A/2C). Adult $10 2 Child $5 (5-16yrs) Concession $5. Refer to a separate Discovery flier for Family $25 (2A/2C). Mungo National Park Aboriginal Discovery Bookings: Essential by 2pm Friday 19th tours or visit What’s On at September www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au

Contact: Ranger Shayne. M: 0448 201 TIME ZONES 507 Please ensure that you meet at the designated location at the Time Zone for Activity Grading: Medium that area. Example: Bourke is on Eastern What to bring: Fold up chair. UHF is Standard Time (EST). Broken Hill is on useful. Wear sturdy shoes. No sandals. Central Standard Time (CST). Fuel up and BYO food, water everything FURTHER INFORMATION required for a full day. Many NSW Parks are remote and rugged Note: 4WD only. places, weather can change quickly and conditions in the bush or on the water may be unpredictable. Cancellations: It is our aim to conduct SHARED HISTORY TAG-ALONG TOUR all activities as scheduled. However, if an Join the Kurnu Baakandji Discovery tour activity is cancelled due to inclement and be one of the first to gain a rare weather, extreme temperatures, road insight into the shared history of Toorale closures or insufficient numbers, refunds National Park. Tag along with national will be given at the discretion of the parks rangers, hear the stories that relevant National Park. surround this Australian icon and enjoy a light morning tea on the banks of the Tours listed: Please view the websites . stated and/or contact the relevant phone Tours are subject to weather and road numbers for changed circumstances. conditions. Graded Activities: refer to the website. Tour dates September: Wednesday 17th; What to bring: please ensure you have Wednesday 24th; Tuesday 30th a full tank of fuel, BYO everything October: Thursday 2nd & Wednesday 8th required for all half-day and full-day tours, including plenty of water and food Times: 8am to 1pm EST. and ample fuel.

Duration: 4hrs CONTACTS Meeting Place: Kidman Camp, Bourke NPWS offices are open Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm and are located at the Cost following cities and townships in western Adult $10. NSW. Child $5 (5-16yrs) Concession $5. Broken Hill office for Kinchega, Mutawintji Family $25 (2A/2C). (NP & HS), Sturt: 183 Argent Street, Broken Hill. NSW. 2880. T: 08 8080 Bookings: Essential 3200.

Contact: Bourke Area Office T: 02 6830 E: 0200 [email protected]. Activity Grading: easy au

What to Bring: ensure you fuel up and Bourke Area Office for Gundabooka, bring everything required for a good half- Culgoa, Toorale National Parks and day outing. Ledknapper Nature Reserve: 51-53 Oxley Street, Bourke, NSW, 2840. T: 02 6830 0200. Buronga Area Office for Mungo National Park: Cnr Sturt Highway & Melaleuca Images: Street, Buronga. NSW 2739. T: 03 5021 Paroo-Darling National Park. 8900 OEH Photographer: J Spencer. Tibooburra NPWS Office for Sturt National Toorale National Park: OEH D Haskard Park: 51 Briscoe Street, Tibooburra. : OEH D Haskard NSW 2880. T: 08 8091 3308.

Kinchega Woolshed: OEH D Haskard Paroo-Darling National Park Visitor Centre & Office: Keraro Road, White Cliffs. NSW 2879. T: 08 8083 7900. Update: 16.09.2014 spring edition

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