Day 1: We neet you at Adelaide Airport, or the train at Gawler Central.  Or you may choose to drive into our country property and leave your car at Stockport during the journey. Join us for lunch, afternoon tea, and pre-dinner drinks at the Stables. 

Afternoon trip briefing.  Familiarization with equipment and routines, issue of trip maps, etc.  A walk around the country area, or just relax and settle in.

We travel to a local country pub for Dinner.  An opportunity to socialise with your fellow travellers and talk about the trip ahead.

Day 2: Depart Stockport 8.00am to Pt Augusta and along the Eyre Highway to Iron Knob, home of South Australia’s iron ore industry. On to the Gawler Ranges and Mt Ive , a working sheep station, staying overnight in their refurbished shearers quarters.

Day 3: A day tour from Mt Ive including some of the Gawler ranges National Park, Lake Gairdner (used by Rosco McGlashen for his world speed records) and a station tour. See amazing rock formations and salt lakes. Overnight at Mt Ive. This is an experience not to be missed!

Day 4: Mt Ive To Streaky Bay .We travel through the Gawler Ranges National Park, visiting Pildappa Rock, some say even more spectacular than Wave Rock in Western Australia. Then on to Minippa and down to the lovely coastal town of Streaky Bay, with its spectacular coastline. 

Day 5: Streaky Bay to Nundroo- Following the coastline (more stunning coastline views) we visit Ceduna and Thevenard and then travel onto the town of windmills, Penong. Then on to our overnight accommodation at the little town of Nundroo.

Day 6: Nundroo – We head out in the morning to the magnificent Bunda Cliffs on the edge of the mighty Great Australian Bight. We go into the scenic lookouts at the Head Of Bight for the days Whale watching. We will return to Nundroo, for a second night.

Day 7: Today we drive back to Ceduna and then down to Smoky Bay for our last day on the seaside before heading inland.

Day 8: We head north toward Kingoonya,once a bustling stop on the Ghan railway, now with only a handful of residents in town. stopping at Historic Ruins, incredible early water storage systems, salt lakes and ancient rock formations., Overnight at the Kingoonya Hotel, an experience to remember! If timing is right, we will be able to wave to the Indian Pacific as it travels past the Hotel.

Day 9: Leaving Kingoonya we follow the Trans Australia railway to the historic abandoned town of Tarcoola. After exploration of this old goldmining and railway town we head off for Coober Pedy where we will spend a night in one of the amazing underground motels.

Day 10: Next day after a tour of the town and surrounds we continue on over the desolation of the Moon Plain and on to Ackeringa Homestead and the Ackeringa Hills. Overnight in the renovated shearers quarters.

Day 11: The little known Painted Desert. These wonderful coloured hills are truly a magical place, living up to its name. Explore the sand and rocks or just sit on the hillside and watch the changing colours of the desert rock formations during the passage of the day. After sunrise on the Painted Desert it is off down the Oodnadatta Track to Oodnadatta, a tour of the Old Ghan Museum, perhaps a coffee at the Pink Roadhouse and then South along sections of the original Ghan to Algebuckena Bridge and the Oodnadatta Track to William Creek Overnight in Cabins

Day 12: South down the Oodnadatta track to Coward Springs and the unique moonscape of the ancient mound springs of the great artesian basin. We then follow the Oodnadatta Track south to Bopechee and take the Borefield Road to Roxby Downs. I am trying to organize a Tour of Olympic Dam from here.,

Day 13: From Roxby to Andamooka a bit of exploration and then cross country on 4WD tracks through Mulgaria Station to the abandoned township of Farina (once proclaimed as the wheat growing capital of South Australia) and on to Marree. Here we have a flight over the Lake itself. (INCLUDED IN THE ITINERARY). Dinner at the Hotel. Overnight in the Motel

Days 14 & 15: Leigh Creek Coalfields, , Copley, the old railway town of Beltana, the remains of the Sliding Rock copper mine, through the northern Flinders ranges and gorges to the shearers’ quarters in the privately managed Warrawaweena Conservation Park, home to a diverse range of fauna, and flora. Two nights.

Day 16: Across the hills to via rugged and scenic 4WD tracks, through old government roads, historical monuments and some spectacular Flinders views, to Moolloooloo a historic sheep station in the northern Flinders Ranges . Overnight in Shearers Quarters

Day 17: The final day takes in part of the Flinders and Hawker. Returning home via Quorn, Wilmimgton and a visit to historic Laura . ETA Stockport late afternoon where we all enjoy an evening meal and stay overnight.

Day 18: After a hearty breakfast, and farewell to your new friends we travel to Adelaide for a final goodbye at the airport.