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For those watching ABC1 last night, you probably saw the special on Lake Eyre, commemorating the filming expeditions of ABC reporter Paul Lockyer, cameraman John Bean and pilot Gary Ticehurst, who sadly died whilst filming. It captured some of the most spectacular scenes of Lake Eyre and Outback regions in flood. If you didn’t get…
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Above is another image taken by the Outback photographer Peter MacDonald or The Sentimental Bloke as he is also known. Its very coincidental that after my last blog post on the current conditions of the very wet country side in northern South Australia and Lake Eyre, he sent me his latest blog of which I…
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What a deluge of rain that we have seen fall across nearly all parts of the country of late! There are many places that have received way too much rain across many areas but pastrolists in the Outback regions cannot hide the smiles as many of the station owners recorded their annual average rainfall over…
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They are back! Goin’ Off Safaris very popular Lake Eyre scenic flight and Outback tours are back on for 2012, with our new Lake Eyre webpage and all details now updated and online. At the moment there is plenty of water flowing in the Cooper Creek towards Australia’s biggest lake and there will be plenty…
Read MoreInterestingly enough, I only have just got the chance to check out the award winning film, The Bucket List with famous actors Morgan Freeman & Jack Nicholson. Very coincidentally, one of passengers from our last trip commented that flying in and around the outback and Lake Eyre, should definitely be on everyone’s bucket list! Funnily…
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Its been a huge 6 weeks for us at Goin’ Off Safaris with 5 Flying Safaris to Australia’s beauitiful Lake Eyre & the Outback and unfortunately, no time to blog each trip so apologies there to our regular subscribers! After completing our last 3 Day Supreme Scenic safari just last weekend, we again had a…
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