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Vacation Australia provides competitively priced, custom
planned, all inclusive, private air charter
itineraries for independent groups. The Kanga can add-on any
Preferred Partner Air Safari to your Vacation Australia
itinerary. Air safaris, tours and excursions are designed to get you there without the major airport hassle in
the least amount of time. Australian air is the safest in the world as its
history verifies.
Contact the Kanga for your competitively priced, personal, custom
planned, all inclusive itinerary package from your international
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Vacation
Australia and its Australian Air Charter partners, are pleased to offer
visitors to Australia, unique private air tours, safaris and holiday excursions to
all parts of the Australian mainland and its surrounding islands.
See Vacation Australia's
unique outback Private Air Tour suggestions below
See the Birdsville
Races website
Without question, this has to be one of Australia's most unique events. Birdsville is
nothing more than a Pub, a general store, a caravan park and a few other outbuildings; its
population is 326 people. That is for all the year excepting for the weekend of the Birdsville Races when the town's population swells to over 6000 people. Light and other
aircraft are parked everywhere about the Pub and the bush race track. Many racegoers sleep
under their aircraft, using the Town's public showers or the Caravan park showers. There
are 9 cabins at the Caravan park, but other than that it is camping at the park or on the
banks of the Diamantina River. Anybody who is anybody goes to the Birdsville Races. The event
is held annually in the first week of September.
See Coober Pedy
The Opal Capital of the world
Coober Pedy is where most of the world's most precious
opals are mined. What an unusual town, located in the South Australian desert 536
miles/863 km from Adelaide. The summer heat is nigh unbearable. To escape the heat, most
dwellings are underground and that includes an international hotel. Tour an opal mine, see
opals being cut and buy as many opals as you want. Opal miners are hardened characters and
you will be surprised at their remote and often hermit lifestyle. 1, 2 or 3 day trips
suggested.
See White Cliffs Opal
Field
Kangaroo Kelly says, "Many years ago, I had flown to Broken Hill
from Sydney, then 4wdrived it to White Cliffs via Wilcannia. Some of the
sights to be seen on this trip are embedded in my memory. I arrived in
Wilcannia at about 9:30am to see about 10 Australian aborigines squatting in
front of the hotel's corrugated iron fence, getting warm from the early
morning sun while waiting for the "pub" to open at 10am.
Upon my arrival in White Cliffs, I discovered
a movie being produced about a wild boar. The actor was Gregory Harrison.
That was quite a shock to find such "goings on" in the middle of nowhere!
After spending the night in the rough & ready hotel, I was treated to a
really good old fashioned outback breakfast before wandering outside the
front entrance to see a number of derelict hermit opal miners hanging about
the hotel front, again waiting for the hotel to open at 10am. The liquor
licencing laws did not allow hotels to open before 10am causing the thirsty
miners to congregate about the hotel as it is obvious that many were
alcoholics and desperate for a drink by that time in the morning.
Would you believe it, I was offered and
purchased more than a pocketful of good quality opal from these desperados
who were only to keen to make a cash sale to afford the cost of a drink or
two or more.
Even more remarkable was the fact that my
ill-gotten opals were valued at more than a return flight and a relaxing
holiday anywhere in the world. I can tell you that if you buy right, know
your opals and with a little bit of luck, you too have the opportunity to
recoup the cost of your entire Australian holiday from the purchase of White
Cliffs opal"
See King Island
King Island lies in the path of the Roaring Forties, the ever-present westerlies that
circle the worlds southern latitudes. Its an island of long, empty beaches and
clean, fresh air. Its an island of offshore reefs, rocky coasts, lighthouses and
shipwrecks. Australias worst maritime disaster occurred here in 1845, when the
Cataraqui grounded. Today, Cape Wickham, the tallest lighthouse in the southern
hemisphere, guides mariners safely into Bass Strait. You can explore the islands
most important historic sites on the Shipwreck Trail.
Reid Rocks is a major breeding colony for the
Australian fur seal. King Island’s wildlife, both native and exotic, can
sometimes surprise - yes, that was a pheasant you saw in the roadside hedge.
And yes, it is a paddock of grazing turkeys.
Go to Safari 1 | Safari 2 | Safari 3 | Safari 4 | Safari 5 |
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Vacation Australia's
Preferred Partner Air Charter

Austrek Air is the perfect air charter solution, our
aircraft charters fly anywhere in Australia 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We offer exclusive air charters, meaning
we fly to wherever you need to go without any stops or detours
along the way. Austrek Air have a range of aircraft to suit your
specific needs including corporate jets, multi-engine turbine
twins and single engine turbine fixed wing aircraft. We also
have reputable links in the helicopter industry and can help
with any helicopter charter related enquiries.

 
Vacation Australia's Kangaroo Kelly will include any tour of your choice in your custom planned itinerary!
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