Departure dates 18 Feb 21, 10 April 21
ESPERANCE | PINK LAKE HILLIER | MIDDLE ISLAND | LUCKY BAY | CONDINUP | STONEHENGE | GREAT OCEAN DRIVE
Tour Highlights
- Top highlight Helicopter flight to Middle Island to visit Pink Lake Hillier
- Esperance Bay of Isles and pristine white sandy beaches.
- Dazzling scenic flight over the spectacular coastline and Lake Hillier.
- Lucky Bay with the kangaroos on the beach.
- Western Australian agriculture regions.
- Wave Rock.
- Lake Dumbleyung,
- Pussy Cat Hill
- Salt lakes, Lake Grace, Lake King.
- Newdegate PUBLIC Silo Art
- Stonehenge
- Cape Le Grand National Park.
- Cape Arid National Park.
- Ravensthorpe PUBLIC Silo Art
- Vehicle
Luxury Touring in our Land Rover Discovery’s
Maximum of 4 passengers
Tour Price & Inclusions
This Tour is fully inclusive as indicated below
Tour Price:
Double/Twin Rate: $4559.00 per person
Single Rate: $4939.00
Tour Inclusions
Accommodation:
Esperance Island View Apartments for three night
Meals:
Cooked or continental breakfast daily.
Light lunches at local cafes and Condingup Tavern.
Dinner
Entry fees:
Scenic Helicopter flight to Middle Island to visit pink Lake Hillier.
Esperance Bay of Isle Cruise (seasonal – dependant on min. numbers being met).
Tour of Wave Rock.
Entry to Stonehenge.
Cape Le Grand National Parks
Cape Arid National Park
Vehicle
Luxury Touring in our Land Rover Discovery’s
Maximum of 4 passengers
Day 1 – Perth to Esperance
Williams, Lake Grace, Newdegate, Lake King, Cascades, Esperance
Today we follow a series of ancient river beds, which are now salt lakes, into the heart of the Wheatbelt of Western Australia (Dumbleyung, Lake Grace, Newdegate and Lake King).
After morning tea at Williams we head south east to Esperance.
The unusually named Pussy Cat Hill, you will get the opportunity to view a memorial to Donald Campbell’s famous 1964 world water speed record when he raced his boat, Bluebird, across Lake Dumbleyung. This made Donald Campbell the fastest man on both land and water. Lake Dumbleyung is the largest natural body of inland water in Western Australia.
We take a break for lunch at Lake Grace.
Newdegate PUBLIC Silo Art. In May 2018, faced with a row of CBH silos high above his head, Perth artist Brenton See conquered his fear of heights to paint four huge murals which draw inspiration directly from the flora and fauna of the area.
Continue to Lake King and cut across country to Frank Hann National Park, Cascades and into Esperance.
Esperance town is our overnight stay for the next three nights at Esperance Island View Apartments.
Discover and experience everything that makes this region so amazing.
Walk across the road to the foreshore overlooking the Recherche Archipelago, or maybe go for a refreshing swim in the sparkling waters.
Accommodation: Esperance Island View Apartments
Day 2 – Helicopter flight to Pink Lake Hillier. Lucky Bay, Wharton Bay
Pink Lake Hillier, Lucky Bay, Duke of Orleans Bay and Wharton Bay
This morning we head out to enjoy a helicopter flight for an unforgettable flight to Lake Hillier, “The” pink lake in the Esperance region. Our 15 minute flight to Middle Island takes us over the spectacular coastal scenery that Cape Arid National Park is known for. See Yokinup Bay, Cape Arid and Recherche Archipelago.
As we approach Middle Island our pilot will circle Pink Lake Hillier and land on a natural rock platform where we will be shown to the edge of the pink lake.
Middle Island amazing history includes the story of Black Jack Anderson, Australia’s only known pirate. Anderson and other cohorts fled King George’s Sound having been accused of murder. Middle Island had the reputation as a lawless place continued for some time. In 1848 it was reported the island was known as “the resort of a set of lawless desperadoes, composed of runaway convicts, sealers, whalers and vagabonds.
This is a remarkable experience to be on Middle Island and at Lake Hillier where very few people have visited.
Scientists have recently explained that many extremophile microbes, bacteria and organism play a large part in the colour of the astounding lake living in an extremely high salinity environment.
This helicopter flight is a ‘must do’ experience whilst in Esperance.
Later we tour to Duke of Orleans Bay and Wharton Bay. Wharton Beach offers magnificent coastal scenery, a superb beach of iridescent white sand and crystal blue waters.
It is a photographer’s delight!
Your guide puts it out there and firmly believes this is Australia’s best beach!!!
Lunch at the Condinup Tavern and this afternoon we visit Cape Le Grand National Park and Lucky Bay. This beach is famous for its kangaroos which are often seen sunning themselves on the white sandy shoreline. Enjoy a cup of coffee at the Lucky Bean Café which is situated right on the beach.
Accommodation: Esperance Island View Apartments
Day 3 – Esperance Cruise, Great Ocean Drive
Scenic Wildlife Cruise, Great Ocean Drive, Cindy Poole Glass Gallery
This morning we join the Scenic Wildlife Cruise from Esperance. With regular sightings of New Zealand Fur Seals, Australian Sea Lions, Cape Barren Geese, Common and Bottlenose Dolphins, White-bellied Sea Eagles (including feeding) – Whales (season dependent). Bring your bathers for a swim in some of the world’s clearest water.
After lunch we tour the Great Ocean Drive to see Rotary Lookout, West Beach, Blue Haven, Twilight Cove and Spencer Lake.
We visit Cindy Poole Glass Artist, Gallery and Working Studio.
We also stop at WA’s very own Stonehenge, an exact sized replica of the famous landmark in England. Step back in time 4,000 years and stand in the middle of this massive construction and feel how awesome it must have been when Stonehenge in UK was built.
On our return to Esperance visit Lucky Bay Brewing. The only brewery in WA that sources premium quality raw barley direct from nearby local farmers to make the beer. Western Australia exports all of its Malting Barley. Hence the unique local brew is literally from paddock to pint with no mileage, fully organic, and years of experimenting to arrive at an award winning drop to be enjoyed by local farmers, local community, and all the while using locally produced grain. The paddock to pint concept is fully realised in Lucky Bay Brewing’s beers.
Accommodation: Esperance Island View Apartments
Day 4 – Esperance Ravensthorpe, Wave Rock
Ravensthorpe, Hyden Wave Rock, York
On our last day, we visit Ravensthorpe; a picturesque agriculture and mining frontier town boasting spectacular local ranges scenery.
Ravensthorpe PUBLIC Silo Art. The landscape around Ravensthorpe comes alive every spring with thousands of species of wildflower bursting into colour, so Amok Island decided to focus on native Western Australian flora and fauna for his largest mural to date.
‘Each silo side shows a different stage of the flowering cycle of this species of Banksia: from flower buds, to full bloom, to seedpods developing, drying out and opening’, explains the artist.
The artwork encircles the three silos infinitely; the final silo marks the beginning once again of the first, making a connection with the cycle of the seasons and grain farming processes this area is known for. This species Banksia speciosa is only found Hopetoun and the Great Australian Bight.
After morning tea / coffee continue on to the spectacular natural phenomenon that is Wave Rock at Hyden.
Wave Rock was formed before the age of dinosaurs, about 2.7 billion years ago. It is one of the oldest rocks in the world.
Wave Rock is an ancient granite formation that has been exposed to weathering processes for over 60 million years. It is about 15 metres high and about 110 metres long.
It really does look like an ocean wave about to break on the shore.
After leaving Hyden and Wave Rock, we tour through the Eastern and Central Wheatbelt regions which are made up of farming communities with cropping, sheep and cattle as the main industries.
We finish the Perth to Esperance tour with a visit to the charming historic town of York, which is Western Australia’s first in land rural town, developed in 1831. York is an attractive rural town rich in Victorian and Federation buildings.
We arrive back into Perth at approximately 6:00 pm.
More Information
ACCOMMODATION
Esperance Comfort Inn Motel 3 nights
MEALS
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Breakfast – Continental /cooked.
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Lunch
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Dinner
ENTRY FEES
- Cape Le Grand National Park
- Scenic Flight over Middle Island to see Pink Lake Hillier
- Wave Rock
VEHICLE
Small Group Touring in our Current Model Luxury 4WD Land Rover Discovery’s
Seven Seater with a maximum of 4 passengers for all Extended Tours
Timing
RETURN 6:00PM
Luxury Esperance Pink Lake Hillier Tour – 4 Day
Testimonials
Private, very personal touring in style!
Sylvia was the perfect tour leader, guide, driver, historian, wildflower expert etc all rolled into one. By the end of our 12 days together Sylvia also was our friend. She was passionate and knowledgeable, had a great sense of humour and we felt we had much in common.
Great private tours
Sylvia, the owner of Luxury Outback Tours, is passionate about her business and loves showing off the beauties of Western Australia. We took 2 tours with LOT; one to Wave Rock and one to the Pinnacles. Both were well-orchestrated.
A Week of Wows!
Hi Sylvia, Kay and I would like to thankyou so much for our recent wildflower trip with you for 6 days. We saw everything and more. A very special time for us all. Everything from itinerary and accommodation was wonderful. Recommend to all we meet. Safe travels!
Terrific visit to the Pinnacles Desert
If you’re looking to take a day to visit some of WA outside of Perth, you can’t go wrong with Sylvia and Luxury Outback Tours’ trip to the unearthly Pinnacles. Our trip was a treat from start to finish, not least because Sylvia herself is outgoing, cheerful, and filled with knowledge about the region’s history, flora, and fauna. On the journeys she knew where to alert us to look for emus and pointed out many of the region’s most beautiful and bizarre plants and trees. We highly recommend Sylvia and her company for this trip and any other she might offer.
Fantastic Five Day Tour
Hi Sylvia, I must apologise for my long silence. I would like to write and say how much we enjoyed our time away with you last year. Your passion and knowledge of all the places that we went made the trip really special. I have particularly fond memories of all the flowers that we spotted – I knew that the WA flowers had a great reputation but I was unprepared for the colour and variety of them, and it was so exciting to see so many of them. You have an amazing skill in finding them. I would thoroughly recommend your tours to anyone. Your good humour, excellent preparation and knowledge, and experience meant that Peter and I had a fabulous holiday, enjoying all the places and sights that you had organised. You made everything so easy! … All the people that we met on your tour were so passionately engaged in what they were doing ,and in encouraging us to understand their passions, that all the places that we went are still vivid in my thoughts…. Again I would like to say how very special your tour was, and how very much we enjoyed all the things that we did.
Best wishes,
Judy (and Peter!) Buckley
12 Day Wildflower Tour
Sylvia organized a wildflower tour for 22 horticulturists from the West Coast of the United States three weeks ago. We couldn’t have been happier. All the details, including transportation, food and accommodation were taken care of and all we had to think of were the glories of the wildflowers as we wandered from Perth to Moora to Bremmer Bay to Busselton and back to Perth. It was so comfortable and carefree that we wish we could come back next year and do the whole trip over again. Sylvia is highly experienced and so responsive that anyone joining her tours would feel confident of having the best time.
Way To Go!
From the time we met the competent assured and friendly Sylvia we knew this would be a great trip – a real adventure from Perth to Broome for six friends from the East. Stops for Adventure and meals were well considered by our knowledgeable guide and sufficiently frequent to keep us all happy. The WA coast is of course a splendid adventure and when we dipped inland to savour the red rock chasms and spinifex of the Pilbara and Karijini we were impressed! Highlights of the journey were thoughtfully organised – Wooleen Station – Kalbarri – Monkey Mia – Ningaloo and WhaleSharks and spectacular chasms and rock pools. Sylvia knowledgeably directed our attention to items she had found were of interest to us such as birds and plants and our lists grew longer. Thanks Sylvia for a brilliant experience. Visited June 2015