Katanning | Esperance | Hopetoun | Bremer Bay | Albany
Experience 7 days of amazing wildflowers and spectacular scenery on the southern edge of Western Australia.
Wildflower Tours WA
Tour Departure Date
Wednesday 16 September 2020 We do have seats remaining for this tour
Tour Highlights
- Wilderness
- Frank Hann National Park
- Mallee
- Cape Le Grand National Park
- Kangaroos on the beach at Lucky Bay
- Ravensthorpe Ranges
- Fitzgerald River National Park
- Weeping Eucalyptus
- Wildflowers in different flora zones and in major WA hotspots
- Point Ann whale spotting
- Stirling Range National Park
Tour Inclusions
Entry Fees
Cape Le Grand National Park
Stokes Inlet National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park
- Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show
Tozer’s Bush Camp
Stirling Range National Park
Meals as noted in the tour itinerary
Breakfast: Cooked or Continental
Lunches: Picnic, Café, Tavern
Dinner
Accommodation
Katanning Premier Mill
Comfort Inn Esperance Two Nights
Wave Crest Hopetoun
Bremer Bay Resort
Beach House at Bayside Albany
Day 1 - Perth to Katanning
Day 1 – Perth to Katanning
Dryandra Conservation Reserve, Narrogin, Foxes Lair, Katanning
As we are leaving Perth we will be visiting local flora spots to get our wildflower vision into play.
Today other wildflowers hot spots in the Narrogin area visit Dryandra Conservation Reserve and also spot Numbats, look at local flora at Foxes Lair.
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Accommodation: Katanning Premier Mill
Day 2 - Katanning to Esperance
Day 2 – Katanning to Esperance
Lake King, Frank Hahn National Park, Cascades, Esperance
This Morning we cross the eastern wheatbelt region through Dumbleyung, Kukerin and Lake Grace to Lake King
Lake King is a stopping place for visitors travelling across the arid country around Frank Hahn National Park to Norseman. Outstanding wildflowers in late spring include rare and endangered species. East of Lake King is the Rabbit-Proof Fence boasting magnificent displays of wildflowers in season.
We take an outback road to Esperance via the Cascades going through Frank Hahn National Park.
Frank Hahn National Park has been declared to protect sandplain habitat and health flora Mallee and wattles, melaleucas. Travelling on through characteristic Mallee-heathland wilderness. Cascades Mallee – Heathland offer areas of masses of flowers and then into the Cascades – Esperance farming region.
Both the National Park and Mallee-heathland have a spectacular range of wildflowers afforded by its isolation.
Esperance is Australia’s best-kept secret.
The Esperance region is distinguished by spectacular coastal scenery and a diversity of wildlife including seals, dolphins, whales, emus and sea eagles plus pristine beaches and 110 islands that make up the Recherche Archipelago. With stunning national parks, this is one of a few places in Western Australia where you may see kangaroos sunbathing on the beach.
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Accommodation: Esperance Comfort Inn
Day 3 - Esperance
Day 3 – Esperance
Duke of Orleans Bay, Wharton, Cape Le Grand
This morning we drive east of Esperance to spend to a day exploring Duke of Orleans Bay and Wharton Bay the local’s favourite beach a must visit and check the wildflowers.
Lunch at Condingup Tavern and visit Condingup Lookout for seasonal wildflowers and spectacular vistas of the region.
Cape Le Grand
There aren’t too many places in Australia where you see kangaroos soaking up the sun on the beach, but at Cape Le Grand National Park this is just one of the many natural highs on offer. The landscape changes from massive granite outcrops to freshwater pools and unbelievably white sandy beaches with views over many islands. With stops for regional wildflowers and visit Lucky Bay to see the Kangaroos on the Beach
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Accommodation: Esperance Comfort Inn
Day 4 - Esperance to Hopetoun
Day 4 – Esperance to Hopetoun
Stokes Inlet NP, Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun
This morning travel to Ravensthorpe via back roads and will be stopping to view regional red Lechenaultia Formosa, red four winged eucalyptus, and other amazing flowers.
The highlight today is visiting the Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show displaying 600-700 labelled specimens from the Ravensthorpe and Fitzgerald River National Park regions.
Ravensthorpe
Ravensthorpe & Hopetoun enjoy a temperate Mediterranean climate. Ravensthorpe is surrounded by ancient mountain ranges which have 1400 species of flora. Rocky hills, rugged river valleys, vast sand plains, estuaries and large inlets provide the area with a wealth of natural beauty, flora and birds.
Ravensthorpe celebrates its regional wildflowers with its highly acclaimed Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show you will be amazed to see such a large collection of flora. There are currently about 3000 specimens in the herbarium.
The wildflowers in the Ravensthorpe region are astounding we will be spending the afternoon looking at the amazing diversification of flora.
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Accommodation: Wave Crest Hopetoun
Day 5 - Hopetoun to Bremer Bay
Day 5 – Hopetoun to Bremer Bay
Fitzgerald River National Park, Bremer Bay
Today we spend all day in the Fitzgerald River National Park to really explore this unique flora hot spot. Which has 20% of Western Australia’s flora.
Fitzgerald River National Park
This is one of the reasons Western Australia Wildflowers are highly regarded.
The Fitzgerald River National Park is now recognised as one of the most diverse botanical regions on earth with over 1,800 species of flowering plants alone. In spring, the landscape is dotted with colourful wildflowers including banksias, hakeas, bottlebrush, feather flowers, Quaalup bell, orchids and many others.
Bremer Bay
Bremer Bay’s isolation is one of its finest features along with scenic beauty, magnificent turquoise waters of bays and beaches and diversity of flora and fauna.
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Accommodation: Bremer Bay Motel
Day 6 - Bremer Bay to Albany
Day 6 – Bremer Bay to Albany
Bremer Bay, Albany
Bremer Bay
This morning before we leave the region we will local spots for orchids and then visit Tozer’s Bush Camp which has natural bushland of high diversity of wildflowers and orchids.
You will find it very difficult to be drawn away from this very unique bushland.
After morning tea we travel to Albany and stop for wildflowers on route
Albany
In the Albany region visit hot spots for unique and endangered flora.
Visit Albany town sights visit Mt Clarence overlooking Princess Royal Harbour and King George Sound, Middleton Beach and overnight Albany.
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Accommodation: The Beach House At Bayside
Day 7 - Albany to Perth
Day 7 – Albany to Perth
Mt Romance Sandalwood Factory, Mt Barker, Kojonup, Perth
This Morning we visit Mt Romance Sandalwood Factory to hear the story of one of Western Australia’s first export industries.
We will have a private tour to see the manufacturing of the precious Sandalwood oil.
On the way back to Perth visit Mt Barker and Kojonup for special hotspots for orchids.
We tour through Jarrah, Marri, Wandoo woodlands before descending the Darling Escarpment into Perth late afternoon.
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More Information
ACCOMMODATION
- Katanning Premier Mill
- Esperance Comfort Inn 2 Nights
- Hopetoun Motel
- Bremer Bay Resort
- Albany The Beach House at Bayside
MEALS
- As noted in the tour itinerary
- Breakfast: Cooked or Continental
- Lunches: Picnic, Café, Tavern
- Dinner:
ENTRY FEES
Cape Le Grand National Park
Stokes Inlet National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park
Tozer’s Bush Camp
VEHICLE
Current Model Luxury 4WD Land Rover Discovery
Seven Seater with a maximum of 4 passengers for wildflower tours
Timing
RETURN 5:30PM
7-Day Hot Spot Wildflower Tour 2020
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.
Bron V Wauchope, AustraliaAug 2017
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.
Wetravelnow MontpellierFrance 2017
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!
Kay & Gordon Shadforth Gold Coast 2016
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.
JoeW1957, New York November 2016
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
Judy & Peter Buckley ebruary 2015
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.
Robin Parer San Francisco, California October 2015
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
Bob and Sue Overell July 2015
