Category Archives: SA

A Taste of the Australian Outback in Alice Springs

By Rebecca Burns

The Outback is a huge attraction for backpackers in Australia – but it covers such an immense area that it would be impossible to explore fully, even on extended travels.

Many of the leading Outback attractions can be explored on a road trip along the famous Stuart Highway, or “Explorer’s Way”, which stretches from north to south over almost 1,800 miles, from Darwin in the Northern Territory to Port Augusta in South Australia, near Adelaide.

Flight Over Lake Eyre

We had one last holiday with just the two of us before the birth of our first child and it was either head up north to get away from the cold Melbourne winter, or head across to the Flinders Ranges and do a charter flight over Lake Eyre. After some discussion it was decided that due to the massive rains that occurred in Western Queensland earlier this year, the phenomena of Lake Eyre in flood was just to good an opportunity, and so it was West we were heading.