Lorella Springs homestead and camping area are open to drive-in visitors. This gives travellers a taste of what an outback adventure can be. There is much to see and do within just a few kilometres of the homestead and you can do this at your own pace and own degree of adventure.

Lorella is a huge untouched property, and for those who want a little more, we can accommodate to your needs, by providing either escorted extreme 4WD tours or Fly-in Tours.

Although our tours are tailored to suit the desires, requirements and capabilities of our clients, below is a suggested  9 day itinerary for an overseas or out of state visitor coming to Lorella. An exact tour cannot be planned. Every trip is different. You are on an adventure. - Not a package tour. Expect the Unexpected. 

DAY 1 (Saturday)

Arrive in Darwin. Be picked up by Limousine and taken to meet the light plane at Darwin airport and fly to Lorella Springs Station.
Be met by your guide at Lorella bush airstrip and be taken by 4 wheel drive vehicle to Lorella homestead, enjoying the views, wild animals, sights and stories along the 13 kilometre bush track. Keep your eyes sharp to see all  sorts of birds, animals and scenery along the way.

Afternoon outback style refreshments at the homestead. Relaxing and getting to know each other in the "Magic Thermal Spring".
We do all our cooking over the campfires and sleep under the stars in swags* or in fully creepy-crawly safe, roomy, 3 man tents. (One tent per person to give you plenty of room and privacy).
(* Swag - A comfortable, fully enclosed bush bed safe from all the predators and creepy-crawlies you're likely to be paranoid of. )
Lets prepare your bush accommodation for later that evening, before dark. Then you will be able to just hop into bed whenever you're ready.

Off in the 4WDs to do some exploring, some fishing, follow the adrenaline rush of the bull catchers or whatever adventures are happening around the station. 
Back to base for dinner, then off to catch Yabbies, or some night croc spotting. Come home, cook up the yabbies that you just caught for your supper.

 
Chat and chat and chat with your new found friends, about everything that you have seen and done so far ... and you have only been here a matter of hours. Drop exhausted into bed and look up at the night sky and see more stars than you ever believed existed in the heavens.

Day 2 (Sunday )

While you are still getting used to your new environment, we take you to see the ruins of some of the earlier pioneer's settlements and homesteads. Understand the hardships they must have endured. Perhaps you would like to see some of the unusual rock formations in the area. Every outing is a new adventure. You never know what you will encounter along the way. 

Maybe we will stop to shoot a dingo that has been killing so many calves. Perhaps you may like to walk up into the ranges and go water sliding down into the rock pools? 

Lets go to the deep bat cave where the early cattle rustlers used to hang out. Climb to the top of the ridge and survey across this land so vast and beautiful, that in other countries, wars would be fought over it. Look out and realise that just you and a handful of others are sharing an area so huge, that if it  had the population density of New York City, there would be 40 million people sharing it with you. This is a land bigger than many countries in the world. Over 20 times the area of Washington DC. Two thousand times the area of Monaco. 

We don't know what adventures will happen ... but something will. Lets go find the bull catchers and see how they are doing? Hold on as tight as you can. We are going into some unexplored country. There's a cloud of dust. The bull catchers must be chasing something. Off we go too, at break neck speed through the undergrowth. Use every bit of strength that you have to hold on and stay in the vehicle. 

Lorella has hundreds of kilometres of rivers and creeks. We've never been to this part before. Look, there's a huge croc slide. Be very careful if you go near the water. 
Back to camp to again relax in the spring while your bush tucker is being prepared for you. You need an early night tonight. We've got a lot planned for the next few days.

Days 3, 4, 5, 6 ( Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday )

Alright, you're starting to get the idea of this now ... so it's time to really go into new territory. Over the next few days we are going to try to follow the Rosie creek down to where it meets the tidal salt estuary. We will live off the land as much as possible. (*****smiles*****) well, we may just take a few tasty things in case we weaken). 
Watch the birds. Watch the animals. Watch the fish. Look at the many different plants. Understand everything's struggle to compete and survive. Learn their intelligences, their strategies, their alliances, their meaning of Life. What is of Value and what is not. Learn  what you can eat and what you can't. Learn plants and animals. Learn poisons and medicines. Look at the stars, look at the universe, and understand how you are part of it and your place in it. Learn how to navigate just from the sky and what is around you. See, You are starting to change already.
We will camp in our tents or swags wherever we end up that night. 

We have taken the 4 wheel drive vehicles as far as they will go (and you will learn how to take a 4WD where you thought it could never, ever go ). We fish and hunt and explore, continuing learning about the bush, the rules of Nature and Survival.  When the going is too tough for the 4WDs, we then head out on foot to a part of the coast that we have never been to before.

Our backup is carried in a 4WD Quad bike which will go just about anywhere. It may be hard, but we will make sure that it is fun too. We want this to be the greatest experience of your life. A time to always to remember and treasure.

At the coast, there is fishing and crabbing like you can not believe ( we have flown in by helicopter in previous years ).

There are sharks, huge saltwater crocodiles, massive wild bulls that have never seen a human being, and every kind of wild life that this untouched wilderness can offer. This is the most remote part of Australia, and possibly Planet Earth. This is when you start to understand the Balance of Life and Nature.

DAY 7 ( Friday )

As triumphant warriors we rendezvous with our 4WD and work our way back through the day to the station homestead. 

Still there are many adventures along the way. Tonight we will all feast like kings on our bounty from the sea. I think I will relax in the "Magic Spring" while others cook dinner.

Day 8 ( Saturday )

Wake up to wallabies around your swag. Walk up past the "Magic Spring", through mist rising from the hot water, taking in the magnificent golden sunrise through the ranges. Breathe in the pure fresh air. Listen to the silence only broken by the myriads of wild birds and the bush cattle in the distant hills. Look hard to see the odd small croc or a water monitor diving into the creek.
Climb up, up, up, through crystalline hills, wondering what untouched wealth lies in the next outcrop. Reach the top and look out across this magnificent, fairytale, virgin Kingdom. Look in every direction, as far as you can see, across this land that for the last week has been your lover, your home.

Look inward to the different person that now has grown from the same one that arrived only one week ago ... You have found your inner self, inner peace, inner strength ......
As you come down past the Magic thermal spring you hear the others laughing and chatting in the inviting, flowing, warm water.

For the first time, you just drop your clothes and walk in. Something that only a week ago, you would have never, ever considered. The relaxing water absorbs you, engulfs you, and you almost drop off to sleep .... but the smell of breakfast over the campfire surpasses the smells of wild honey and native flowers. Yes, breakfast is calling.
Around the campfire there is the feeling of exhilaration from all the new experiences that we have shared, mingled with a sadness to soon be leaving. Some of your new friends will be friends for life.

After breakfast, you pile into the 4 Wheel drive to head back to the bush airstrip, 13 kilometres away. This trip you are different. You can see the splashing of the little croc in the stream, the sea eagle hunting for small turtles, the wild horses and cattle just off the side of the track, and you point them out to others.

The planes engines roar as you lift off from the dirt airstrip. Tonight you will be relaxing in your Darwin Luxury Hotel, trying to put into words, the feeling deep inside, of how you have changed. Others that have not experienced it will never understand.

Day 9 ( Sunday )

You awake lazily in your Darwin Luxury Hotel. The rest of the day and the rest of your new Life is Yours.

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