A six day exploration of Australia's spectacular Red Centre - Alice Spring, The Old Telegraph Station the MacDonald Ranges, the Olgas and the world famous Uluru, McDonnell Ranges, West MacDonnell Range, Ormiston Gorge, Kings Canyon, Kings Creek Station, the Olgas, Uluru and the “Field of Light” light-based installation and Erldunda Roadhouse, along with the fauna and flora unique to central Australia

November 16, 2023

The Tweed Valley, on the far north coast of New South Wales, is one of the most spectacular parts of the Australian continent. Ringed by mountain ranges and plateaux, national parks and some of the world's best beaches, it is protected by state, national and world heritage listing. But it wasn't always so. Some 23 million years ago the continent passed over a geological hot spot which burst through the earth's crust in three volatile periods over three million years, spewing lava and ash over one hundred kilometres. As the magma chamber emptied, the earth surrounding the core of the volcano collapsed leaving one of the world's best examples of a volcanic caldera. What remains today is what the United Nations World Heritage listing describes as 'outstanding examples of major stages of the earth's evolutionary history, ongoing geological and biological processes and exception biological diversity".