Top Experiences
Drive To the "Top" of Australia
Truly the last frontier in Australia, a trek to the northernmost tip of Australia is the ultimate destination for 4-wheel drive enthusiasts. Cape York Peninsula is a wild and sparsely populated wilderness area that is only accessible during the dry months from April to December. The dusty tracks contrast dramatically with the abundant rivers, crystal clear creeks and spectacular waterfalls in this vast area of unexplored rainforests, magnificent national parks, sacred Aboriginal sites, rugged mountains and swampy marshlands. This is a land of climatic extremes where the creeks are either dry or running three metres high.
Surf Shipstern Bluff
Shipstern Bluff is a headland on Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula. Below the bluff, heaving swells hit a reef head-on, causing a huge body of water to arc up seemingly out of nowhere. In recent years, this churning swell has become a major surfing spot that attracts elite surfers from around the world, dominating the surf media and setting the bar for extreme surfing in Australia.
Swim With Whale Sharks
The whale shark is a slow-moving filter feeding shark, and the largest living fish species. Whale sharks can seen at close range by divers in many places in tropical waters around the world. In Australia, the only place where a diver can swim with whale sharks in Ningaloo Reef near Coral Bay, on the north west coast of Western Australia. Every year, between late March and early July, these gentle giants congregate in the Ningaloo Marine Park following the mass spawning of coral.
Dive The Great Barrier Reef
Australia is surrounded by many thousands of small fringing islands and numerous larger ones. The Great Barrier Reef, which extends for more than 2,000km off the east coast of Australia, is the largest reef system in the world. It comprises of some 3,400 individual reefs, including 760 fringing reefs, which provide the most spectacular marine scenery on earth. There are access points for divers and sightseers all the way along the Queensland coast.
Cross The Nullarbor
The Nullarbor Plain is Australia's most well known and most frequently travelled stretch of desert. At its widest point, it stretches about 1,100 kilometres from east to west between South Australia and Western Australia. To cross it is an unforgettable experiences, be it by car on the Eyre Highway, or by train abord The Indian Pacific.
Ride The Hancock Gorge Chute
Karijini National Park in Western Australia's Pilbara region, protects the stunningly spectacular deep gorges, palm-fringed pools and waterfalls of the Hamersley Range. Pathways lead down into the gorges where there are some amazing things to see and do, like scaling the gorge walls like a spider, climbing down a ladder into a huge chamber or sliding down The Chute into Regans Pool. The Chute drops about 35 metres down through some of the oldest rocks in the world. Guided tours provide a safety line.
View Indigenous Rock Art
The oldest surviving culture in the world, Australia's Aboriginal culture includes many practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime, an era when the earth and all that is in it was created. Aboriginal rock art has existed for thousands of years and has been the used to keep the Dreamtime alive, it being the medium by which the creation stories were passed from one generation to the next.
Jumping Crocodiles
An hour's drive from Darwin you can take a cruise on the Adelaide River and see giant crocodiles being fed at close range in their natural habitat. What's even more amazing is that this attraction is natural; it takes nothing from the crocodile's habitat and changes nothing in the way it lives naturally in the wild. A short interaction of just a few minutes a day ensures that the crocodiles lose none of their natural survival and hunting instincts.
Walk The Overland Track
Travel through the heart of Tasmania's World Heritage-listed wilderness on this famous 65-kilometre trek from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair. Walk the entire Overland Track in six days or do short and day walks from the Cradle Mountain Visitor Centre and Dove Lake. As well as a physical challenge, this walk is a true communion with nature. You will see lakes, forests and gorges, mountains and moors, spectacular waterfalls and steep, stony peaks.
Drive The Birdsville Track
Established during the 1880s, the Birdsville Track was the main stock route between Marree in South Australia and Birdsville in Queensland. Usually taking about a month to complete, this iconic outback route was long and extremely harsh and cattle often didn't survive the trip. Camel trains fared better. Until the 1930s these animals were used as the major transporters into a largely inaccessible region. Nowadays, the track is passable to conventional vehicles for most of the year.
