A sample Itenary for your Stay at Lorella Springs
Lorella Springs homestead and camping area are open to drive-in visitors. This gives travellers a taste of what an outback adventure can be.
There is much to see and do within just a few kilometres of the homestead and you can do this at your own pace and own degree of adventure.
Lorella is a huge untouched property, and for those who want a little more, we can accommodate to your needs, by providing either escorted extreme 4WD Tours or Fly-in Tours.
Although our tours are tailored to suit the desires, requirements and capabilities of our clients, below is a suggested 9 day itinerary for an overseas or out of state visitor coming to Lorella. An exact tour cannot be planned. Every trip is different. You are on an adventure. - Not a package tour. Expect the Unexpected.
DAY 1 (Saturday)
Arrive
in Darwin. Be
picked up by Limousine
and taken to
meet
the light plane at
Darwin airport
and fly to
Lorella Springs
Station.
Be met by your
guide at Lorella
bush airstrip
and be taken by
4 wheel drive
vehicle to
Lorella
homestead,
enjoying the
views, wild
animals, sights
and stories
along the bush
track.
Keep your eyes sharp to see all sorts of birds, animals and scenery along the way.
Afternoon outback style refreshments at the homestead. Relaxing and getting to know each other in the "Magic Thermal Spring".
We do all our cooking over the campfires and,
if you wish sleep under the stars in
"swags* or in fully creepy-crawly safe,
roomy tents.
(Choose either
one 3 man tent per person to give you plenty of room and
privacy, or
larger luxury
twin share
tent).
(* Swag - A comfortable, fully enclosed bush bed safe from all the predators and creepy-crawlies you're likely to
be paranoid of.
)
Lets prepare your
bush
accommodation
for later that
evening, before
dark. Then you
will be able to just hop
into bed
whenever you're
ready.
Off
in the 4WDs to
do some
exploring, some
fishing, follow
the adrenaline
rush of the bull
catchers or
whatever
adventures are
happening around
the station.
Back to base for
dinner, then off
to catch
Yabbies, or some
night croc
spotting. Come
home, cook up
the yabbies that
you just caught
for your supper.
Chat and chat
and chat with
your new found
friends, about
everything that
you have seen
and done so far
... and you have
only been here a
matter of hours.
Drop exhausted
into bed and
look up at the
night sky and
see more stars
than you ever
believed existed
in the heavens.
Day 2 (Sunday )
While
you are still
getting used to
your new
environment, we
take you to see
the ruins of
some of the
earlier
pioneer's
settlements and
homesteads.
Understand the
hardships they
must have
endured. Perhaps
you would like
to see some of
the unusual rock
formations in the
area.
Every
outing is a new
adventure. You
never know what
you will
encounter along
the way.
Maybe we will stop to shoot a dingo that has been killing so many calves. Perhaps you may like to walk up into the ranges and go water sliding down into the rock pools?
Lets go to the deep bat cave where the early cattle rustlers used to hang out. Climb to the top of the ridge and survey across this land so vast and beautiful, that in other countries, wars would be fought over it. Look out and realise that just you and a handful of others are sharing an area so huge, that if it had the population density of New York City, there would be 40 million people sharing it with you. This is a land bigger than many countries in the world. Over 20 times the area of Washington DC. Two thousand times the area of Monaco.
We don't know what adventures will happen ... but something will. Lets go find the bull catchers and see how they are doing? Hold on as tight as you can. We are going into some unexplored country. There's a cloud of dust. The bull catchers must be chasing something. Off we go too, at break neck speed through the undergrowth. Use every bit of strength that you have to hold on and stay in the vehicle.
Lorella has
hundreds of
kilometres of
rivers and
creeks. We've
never been to
this part
before. Look,
there's a huge
croc slide. Be
very careful if
you go near the
water.
Back to camp to
again relax in
the spring while
your bush tucker
is being
prepared for
you. You need an
early night
tonight. We've
got a lot
planned for the
next few days.
Days 3, 4, 5, 6 ( Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday )
Alright,
you're starting
to get the idea
of this now ...
so it's time to
really go into
new territory.
Over the next
few days we are
going to try to
follow the Rosie
creek down to
where it meets
the tidal salt
estuary. We will
live off the
land as much as
possible.
(*****smiles*****)
Well, we may
just take a few
tasty things in
case we weaken).
Watch the birds.
Watch the
animals. Watch
the fish. Look
at the many
different
plants.
Understand
everything's
struggle to
compete and
survive. Learn
their
intelligences,
their
strategies,
their alliances,
their meaning of
Life. What is of
Value and what
is not.
Learn what
you can eat and
what you can't.
Learn plants and
animals. Learn
poisons and
medicines. Look
at the stars,
look at the
universe, and
understand how
you are part of
it and your
place in it.
Learn how to
navigate just
from the sky and
what is around
you.
See, You are starting to change already.
We will camp in our tents or swags wherever we end up that night.
We have taken the 4 wheel drive vehicles as far as they will go (and you will learn how to take a 4WD where you thought it could never, ever go ). We fish and hunt and explore, continuing learning about the bush, the rules of Nature and Survival. When the going is too tough for the 4WDs, we then head out on foot to a part of the coast that we have never been to before.
Our backup is carried in a 4WD Quad bike which will go just about anywhere. It may be hard, but we will make sure that it is fun too. We want this to be the greatest experience of your life. A time to always to remember and treasure.
At the coast,
there is fishing
and crabbing like you can not
believe ( we
have flown in by
helicopter in
previous years
).
There are sharks, huge saltwater crocodiles, massive wild bulls that have never seen a human being, and every kind of wild life that this untouched wilderness can offer. This is the most remote part of Australia, and possibly Planet Earth. This is when you start to understand the Balance of Life and Nature.
DAY 7 ( Friday )
As triumphant warriors we rendezvous with our 4WD and work our way back through the day to the station homestead.
Still there are many adventures along the way. Tonight we will all feast like kings on our bounty from the sea. I think I will relax in the "Magic Spring" while others cook dinner.
Day 8 ( Saturday )
Wake
up to wallabies
around your
swag. Walk up
past the
"Magic
Spring",
through mist
rising from the
hot water,
taking in the
magnificent
golden sunrise
through the
ranges. Breathe
in the pure
fresh air.
Listen to the
silence only
broken by the myriads
of wild birds
and the bush
cattle in the
distant hills.
Look hard to see
the odd small
croc or a water
monitor diving
into the creek.
Climb up, up,
up, through
crystalline
hills, wondering
what untouched
wealth lies in
the next
outcrop. Reach
the top and look
out across this
magnificent,
fairytale,
virgin Kingdom.
Look in every
direction, as
far as you can
see, across this
land that for
the last week
has been your
lover, your
home.
Look inward to
the different
person that now
has grown from
the same one
that arrived
only one week
ago ... You have
found your inner
self, inner
peace, inner
strength ......
As you come down
past the Magic
thermal spring
you hear the
others laughing
and chatting in
the inviting,
flowing, warm
water.
For the first
time, you just
drop your
clothes and walk
in. Something
that only a week
ago, you would
have never, ever
considered.
The relaxing water absorbs you, engulfs you, and you almost drop off to sleep .... but the smell of breakfast over the campfire surpasses the smells of wild honey and native flowers. Yes, breakfast is calling.
Around the campfire there is the feeling of exhilaration from all the new experiences that we have shared, mingled with a sadness to soon be leaving. Some of your new friends will be friends for life.
After breakfast, you pile into the 4 Wheel Drive to head back to the bush airstrip. This trip you are different. You can see the splashing of the little croc in the stream, the sea eagle hunting for small turtles, the wild horses and cattle just off the side of the track, and you point them out to others.
The planes
engines roar as
you lift off
from the dirt
airstrip.
Tonight you will
be relaxing in
your Darwin
Luxury Hotel,
trying to put
into words, the
feeling deep
inside, of how
you have
changed.
Others that have not experienced it will never understand.
Day 9 ( Sunday )
You awake lazily in your Darwin Luxury Hotel. The rest of the day and the rest of your new Life is Yours.
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