Outback Queensland is an experience like no other. Join Libby Cameron an a true Australian adventure to discover wildflowers, pioneers and stunning homestead gardens. Graham Ross Founder of Ross Garden Tours OUTBACK QUEENSLAND 14 - 24 SEPTEMBER 2021 Join Libby Cameron in outback Queensland and discover a uniquely Australian way of life. Visit Longreach, Winton, Birdsville. Under big blue skies, be inspired by our pioneers, see ancient Waddi Trees, where dinosaurs roamed, visit working stations, stroll homestead gardens. ITINERARY DAY 1 TUE 14 SEP The Rutledge family whose descendants DAY 8 TUE 21 SEP HOME TO BARCALDINE settled in the Quilpie district in 1914 BOULIA TO WINTON Meet your Ross Tour Leader at Sydney and it has remained their home for five A spectacularly scenic drive to Winton via Airport. Fly to Barcaldine via Brisbane generations. Follow the flood plain of the Cawnpore Lookout to view the stark flat- to commence your Outback Queensland Thomson River into Windorah, heart of topped mesas of the surrounding Lillyvale adventure. Meet up with your comfortable the Channel Country and the headwaters Hills. Lunch stop in historic Middleton touring coach and driver for a tour of of Cooper Creek. Hotel. Visit Australian Age of Dinosaurs, Barcaldine, home to the Tree of Knowledge DAY 5 SAT 18 SEP perched high on a spectacular mesa with a and the reputed birth place of the labour WINDORAH TO BIRDSVILLE guided interpretive tour of the laboratory, movement in Australia. collection room and Dinosaur Canyon. Another day of huge skies and dramatic DAY 2 WED 15 SEP red desert landscape as we travel to DAY 9 WED 22 SEP BARCALDINE TO CHARLEVILLE Birdsville. Panoramic views from Deon’s WINTON TO LONGREACH Travel south today to Charleville Lookout of the gibber plains and desert Winton to Longreach today with morning via Blackall with a stop at a famous landscape. Lunch stop in Betoota, once visit to the Walzing Matilda Centre, homestead garden. a busy meeting point for pastoralists and dedicated to Banjo’ Paterson’s famous drovers, now a ghost town. Travel on to ballad. This afternoon we will visit another Lunch stop in Tambo on the banks of Birdsville. the Barcoo. Afternoon drive through to cool and pleasant outback garden oasis at Charleville. DAY 6 SUN 19 SEP Darriveen Station. BIRDSVILLE DAY 10 THU 23 SEP DAY 3 THU 16 SEP LONGREACH CHARLEVILLE Explore this isolated frontier town this today. See the famous Birdsville Race Discover the challenges of working and Charleville is in the heart of Queensland’s Track and ‘Big Red’, a 40 metre sand dune living on the land from local graziers ‘mulga country’, rich in history, flora and marking the symbolic eastern edge of the Bevan and Maree Pearce, as we drive fauna. Simpson Desert. around the property and lunch at their Travel east out to Sommariva Olives where homestead. Discover the history of they grow table olives and process olives DAY 7 MON 20 SEP BIRDSVILLE TO BOULIA Qantas at the Qantas Founders Museum. for cold pressed oil. A sunset cruise on the Thomson River Evening visit to Cosmos Centre where the Head north along the eastern edge of the before a farewell dinner and show. Simpson Desert to Boulia. Stop to see rare observatory opens to reveal crystal clear DAY 11 FRI 24 SEP sky. and ancient Waddi Trees, considered to be 500-1000 years old. LONGREACH TO HOME DAY 4 FRI 17 SEP This afternoona, visit the Min Min Discover the inspiring stories of our CHARLEVILLE TO WINDORAH Encounter, a tribute to the famous Min pioneering heroes at the Australian Travel to Windorah via Quilpie. Lunch Min Light phenomenon. Stockman’s Hall of Fame before today at Moble Homestead, hosted by homeward flights. DETAILS PRICE TOUR LEADER LIBBY CAMERON ° Tour escorted by Libby Cameron ° Twin Share land only $8,195 pp I am thrilled to ° Air-conditioned 4WD motorcoach ° Twin Share inc airfare $8,995 pp be leading this ° Best accommodation - 10 nights ° Single Supplement $950 unique tour, with such a ° Breakfast daily, 9 Lunches & 10 Dinners All prices in Australian dollars. Prices ° rich diversity of ° Entrance fees to all gardens and based on minimum 15 passengers. sightseeing including Age of Australian attractions. We’ll Dinsaurs, Qantas Founders Museum, DISCOUNTS be travelling Walzing Matilda Centre, Stockmans through the age- old landscapes of the outback, visiting Hall of Fame, Tree of Knowledge, ° Earlybird $200 - Pay by 17/5/21 several local gardens along the way. Darriveen Station ° Previous Traveller $100 These provide a respite from the harsh, ° Garden Clinic Member $50 dry, paddocks for the resilient people who live and work in such remote places. I’m looking forward to a beer at the Birdsville Pub, and if there’s winter rain, the wildflowers will add the icing on the cake! BOOK ONLINE www.rosstours.com/outback-queensland OR CONTACT ROSLYN OR MELISSA 1300 233 200 [email protected].