Hi-Vallee Farm | Everlasting Daisies | Wooleen Station | Wreath Flowers | Kalbarri Skywalk | Geraldton
Meet people who are the custodians of such unique places or have set apart areas to specialise in unique species to protect and to share their love of Western Australia’s Natural Heritage – our wildflowers.
Tour Highlights
Visit Hi-Vallee Farm
Wreath Flowers
Wooleen Station
Sunset Tour and Drinks
Masses of Everlasting Daisies
Sturt Desert Pea
Orchids
Kalbarri Skywalk
Overnight at Dongara, Wooleen Station & Geraldton
Come and discover our wonderful wildflowers, stunning scenery and meet the locals
Tour Price & Inclusions
Tour Price:
$3,973.00.00 per person Double Twin Share and
$4234.00 Single
Tour Inclusions
Entry Fees
Hi-Vallee Farm
Wooleen Station Sunset Tour
Kalbarri National Park
Lesueur National Park
Meals
Breakfast: Cooked or Continental
Lunches: Picnic, Café, Tavern
Dinner
Accommodation
Dongara Hotel Motel
Wooleen Station Homestead
Geraldton Ocean Centre Hotel
Vehicle: Private touring in luxury Land Rover Discovery’s.
Offering you a personalised bespoke small group tour experience
Day One
Hi Vallee Farm, Lesueur National Park, Dongara
This morning we visit Don and Joy Williams of Hi Vallee Farm at Badgingarra near Mount Lesueur and Eneabba. Don and Joy run wildflower tours on their very rich and diverse private national park for over 25 years. On their working sheep and grain property we visit pristine native
vegetation with four declared rare and 38 priority plant species, wildflowers, birds and fauna.“Hi –Vallee” with some of the most diverse and varied plant species in the world has been described by Dr Stephen Hopper Director of Kew Gardens, as the most valuable native bushland in private ownership
We have morning tea on the track with Don to show you their amazing and unique remnant kwongan heathland.
After lunch we visit a major hotspot Lesueur National Park for another treat of biodiversity of flora. Later we follow the coast up to Dongara our overnight stay
taking in delightful scenic bays along the way.
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Accommodation: Dongara Hotel Motel
Day Two
Coalseam, Mullewa, Pindar Wooleen Station ,
Today we will see what most people think of when they think Western Australia Wildflowers, delicate expanses of pink, yellow and white everlasting daisies in the Coalseam Conservation Reserve and along isolated roads.
After lunch at Mullewa we set off to Pindar to see the iconic Wreath flowers, Lechenaultia macrantha.
Heading north to Wooleen station we will sea masses of various varieties of daisies, Eromophela, and Sturt Desert Pea.
As we are going along we will get out of the vehicle for you to take a closer look at the wildflowers.
Wooleen Station is a remarkable station that has experienced different stewardships and philosophies of grazing sheep and cattle.
Enjoy a Sunset Tour and learn how the Pollock family are now working towards making Wooleen an ecologically sustainable enterprise. We climb a granite rock outcrop to witness the spectacular sunset with drinks and nibbles.
Accommodation Wooleen Station.
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Day Three
Wooleen Station, Kalbarri NP, Pink Hutt Lagoon Geraldton
This morning after breakfast and bid farewell to Frances and David Pollock of Wooleen Station.
We track east on isolated roads through pastoral lease country and view seasonal wildflowers along the way to the Kalbarri National Park.
Kalbarri National Park is highly regarded for its extraordinary seasonal flowers which can start in July and continue to flower late October with pops of colour from local Verticordias and many other local species. We also visit the awesome Kalbarri Skywalk over hanging 100 metres the Murchison River
We continue into Kalbarri for Lunch.
We will see stunning coastal gorges and magnificent scenery on our drive south to Geraldton our overnight stay we visit coastal gorge Pot Alley.
This afternoon we visit Northampton, one of the oldest settlements outside Perth today, classified by the National Trust as a Historic Town.
Visit Hutt Lagoon a vivid pink Salt Lake where beta-carotene is harvested for commercial use. A fascinating sight.
Accommodation Ocean Centre Hotel Geraldton
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Day Four
Geraldton, Perth
We visit HMAS Sydney Memorial; the beautifully designed memorial features a silver dome of 645 seagulls to represent the loss of HMAS Sydney sailors.
Visit St Francis Xavier Cathedral built in stages from 1914 to its eventual opening in 1938. The Byzantine style architecture is one of Monsignor Hawes’ greatest masterpieces.
Explore the Yamaji Art Centre which is Aboriginal owned and operated and provides professional services to support and develop Aboriginal artists living
in the Lower Murchison region of Yamaji Country.
Lunch at Dongara. And follow the coast along to the Pinnacles and then on into Perth to your booked accommodation.
We drive into the Pinnacles Desert, and along a four-km trail where you will have the unique experience of walking among the fascinating phenomenon of the Pinnacles.
Pinnacles Desert contains thousands of limestone pillars, resembling an ancient ruin. In geological terms, the Pinnacles are a modern phenomenon, beginning to form as ‘recently’ as three and a half million years ago, and appearing as they are today between two million and twenty thousand years ago. Astonishing.
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Timing
RETURN 5:00PM
Outback and Station Wildflower Tour 4-Day 2019
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