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Reconnecting Over 50s guests to the restorative power and wonders of nature through guided small group journeys and walks in Australia's outback, national parks and wilderness areas.

“Where the red dirt and mulga symbolise the start of the outback he loved so much”, one of Australia’s greatest uncompro...
20/03/2024

“Where the red dirt and mulga symbolise the start of the outback he loved so much”, one of Australia’s greatest uncompromising humanitarians requested his last resting place should be located in the town of Bourke. We pay tribute to Ophthalmologist Fred Hollows, the man who served so caringly, people of the developing world, stricken with eye diseases. Today a Foundation in his name has been restoring the sight of millions of people. Many of his professional colleagues joined him in a nation wide screening and surgical services program assisting 465 communities, more than 100,000 people and treating 27,000 Indigenous Australians in need. A fitness fanatic, maker of home furniture and poet, Fred was the instigator of factories in Eritria and Nepal producing millions of clinical grade plastic intraocular lenses for export to more than 75 countries. He was buried with his glasses, a bottle of whisky, letters from his children, sawdust from his workshop, his pipe and tin of to***co. As a reflection of his love of nature, the outdoors and mountain climbing his family chose to place a large boulder on his grave hoping visitors would touch the rock, maybe climb or sit peacefully on it and contemplate life. You can take a moment to support the Fred Hollows Foundation as well, in mindful respect for his legacy.
We visit Fred’s chosen place while in Bourke on our Big Rivers Tour details available via our website bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/darling-river-run-outback-nsw/

One of the most famous rivers in Australia, mistakingly called a creek by explorer Charles Sturt, given the volume of wa...
18/03/2024

One of the most famous rivers in Australia, mistakingly called a creek by explorer Charles Sturt, given the volume of water he crossed in 1845. Cooper Ck (not Coopers) was named by Sturt after the Chief Justice of South Australia at the time. At 1300kms it is the second longest inland river system in Australia, fed by the Thomson and Barcoo rivers in Central Queensland. It features a braided network of channels known to flood up to 40kms wide, leaving many billabongs, lakes and waterholes, one said to be deeper than Sydney Harbour. It is the most seasonally variable river in the world with a major flood event possible every ten years, the main channel reaching Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre. Another NW channel fills the wilderness Malkumba - Coongie Lakes network supporting hundreds of thousands of migrating and wading birds. Over 25 First Nations tribal groups once occupied the Channel Country with a number living a life of plenty along the banks of the Cooper. The ill-fated 1860-61 Burke and Wills expedition came to grief along the creek with many sites and the famous Dig Tree drawing visitations to this day, to reflect on exploration fame and folly . The Cooper is one of Australia’s last remaining pristine wild rivers, flowing through historic organic pastoral stations, dedicated heritage and protective environmental reserves. Cattle droving, Afghan Cameleers, droughts then floods washing aside station homesteads, a hotel and its massive bottle dump all add to a rich history. Life here revolved around vision and abandonment. Today we centre our Corner Country Outback Tour on the Cooper, Coongie Lakes and village accommodation hub of Innamincka (“Yidniminckanie”), voted by our international guests as the most outback town of towns, even surpassing Birdsville. Join us for an authentic 14 day outback journey by visiting the website link in our bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/corner-country-australia-outback-tour/ Hurry before the tracks are sealed and people invade the adventure, the delightful Minkie Waterhole and magnificent River Red Gums.

They say Australia was “built on the sheep’s back” and no greater evidence of this exists than in far Outback NSW. Times...
17/03/2024

They say Australia was “built on the sheep’s back” and no greater evidence of this exists than in far Outback NSW. Times have changed but the heritage remains if you follow the great inland waterway, the Darling River, along a 4WD backroad known as the Darling River Run. Up to 100,000 sheep a season passed through wool sheds like this one featured in the Mungo National Park. Character and stories linger long in sheds at Dunlop Station and Kinchega National Park. Shearing along the “mighty” Darling required trading access, giving rise to bustling inland ports and settlements. 200 or so paddle steamers bringing supplies to the isolated communities, then returning with barges piled high with wool bales destined for Adelaide and on-shipping to international markets. Curious destinations exist today, including Brewarrina, Bourke, Louth, Tilpa, Wilcannia, Menindee Lakes, Pooncarie, Mannum, along with historic farmstays like Bindara Station. All a source of historic fascination and enjoyment on our Big Rivers Outback Tour. Tracing the inland waterways and wildlife corridors from their source in Queensland (and Australia’s largest irrigated cotton farm, Cubbie Station), to the Murray River mouth and Great Southern Ocean by Coorong National Park (home of "Storm Boy"). Book an 11 day experience with 6 other folk by visiting the website link in the bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/darling-river-run-outback-nsw/

Bold and beautiful is an apt description of the desert heartlands of South Australia. Our Adelaide to Alice Springs Tour...
16/03/2024

Bold and beautiful is an apt description of the desert heartlands of South Australia. Our Adelaide to Alice Springs Tour involves crossing some of 7 pastoral stations and 11.5 million acres owned by the one family, running 36,500 branded head of cattle in arid rangelands. The remote Arckaringa Station contains the State Heritage Area known as the Painted Desert located half way between Coober Pedy and Oodnadatta. The rugged and remote gibber plains contain an abundance of desert wildlife, with new and rare plant species discovered by scientists. Rising above the 80million year old landscape are dramatic mesas and hills capped by layers of hard silica crust signifying the original level of the plains. All around are lessons in prolong weathering and break up of the crust, the stony debris being deposited down the slopes and gullies. The exposed softer underlying clays are vividly on show with sunlight bringing spectacle to colours of ochre yellow, oxide red, deep browns, jet black and crisp white. We provide a 4WD journey across isolated station tracks to this photographer’s paradise. All is revealed on our Adelaide to Alice Springs Classic Outback Tour. You can book by visiting the website link in our bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/outback-tour-australia-adelaide-to-alice-springs/. Just one of the rewards in choosing to explore off the beaten tracks of outback Australia.

There comes a time in life when we need to accept, as with animals, we are part of nature and not separate from it. We c...
14/03/2024

There comes a time in life when we need to accept, as with animals, we are part of nature and not separate from it. We can choose to harmonise with nature for our wellbeing and not assume dominion over it, so diminishing or destroying it. Arrival at the “Big Red” sand ridge, west of Birdsville on the edge of the Simpson Desert serves to demonstrate the choices. Our Corner Country Tour guests are led on a climb to the top of the iconic feature, the highest of 1100 parallel sand ridges crafted by winds over centuries, to spend tranquil time celebrating sunset over the desert. All around, tiny creature highways leave tracks across the sands, through Canegrass, desert Acacia and wildflowers adorning the ridge. Evidence of life and mysterious hunting efforts in the cool of the desert night . A few hundred metres away the roar of 4WD vehicles, spurred on by “rev-heads” and spectators, signifies an attack on the ridge, disconnection from the harmony of nature and attempts to exercise dominion over it, all for the cause of claiming “We Conquered Big Red”. Relying on machine and tourism merchandising to justify the claim. Over many visits we have witnessed an alarming spread of dune intrusion from the basic 4WD track accessing desert wilderness wonders beyond, to the defacing and disturbance of slopes nearby. Definitely a sign of how disconnected mankind has become from nature’s way. As a caring conservationist you can witness the natural wonders of “Big Red” in defence of man’s intrusion, on our 14 day small group outback and wilderness tour of the Corner Country. Book by visiting the Website link in our bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/corner-country-australia-outback-tour/. An opportunity to personally reflect on nature’s way.

Voted as Australia’s most popular tree - the River Red Gum. These majestic ecosystem engineers line shallow gullies and ...
14/03/2024

Voted as Australia’s most popular tree - the River Red Gum. These majestic ecosystem engineers line shallow gullies and legendary rivers throughout the inland, capable of drowning for up to 3 years and welcoming floods every 2 years. They draw water from a uniquely designed root system and in drought conditions close or shed leaves and branches to reduce their transpiration load, recharging next flood. Their contribution to life extends to the provision of habitat shelter and food for hundreds of wildlife species, carbon and nutrients for the forest floor, river snags and home for native fish species. First Nations people used them for making canoes, shields, digging sticks and medicine for burns and diarrhoea. Sadly they remain under threat from mankind’s river interferences and extreme effects of climate change impacting the chemical content of their leaves, reducing defences against insect and parasite invasion. All our outback tours feature these iconic symbols of Australia, none more so than these lining the Darling River on our 11 day Big Rivers Tour. Book a Big Rivers experience today via the website link in the bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/darling-river-run-outback-nsw/. For an exceptional outback journey with 6 other guests enjoying a genuine immersive small group experience.

Imagine you standing here in the genuine wilderness of Malkumba - Coongie Lakes National Park, a vast, spectacular lands...
13/03/2024

Imagine you standing here in the genuine wilderness of Malkumba - Coongie Lakes National Park, a vast, spectacular landscape of unallocated pristine waters fed by monsoonal floods from the far tropical north, bounded by red sand ridges, internal deltas, swamps and wetlands. The seasonal resting and breeding destination for an enormous and diverse number of northern hemisphere migrating birds and waders in hundreds of thousands, on their 25,000kms return journey. Accessed at the end of a 4WD track precluding mainstream tourism and guaranteeing you a place in absolute solitude accompanied only by the wonders of nature. Available by joining our small group tour (7 guests only) to the curious Corner Country where three states QLD, NSW, SA meet (everything is just around the corner). Book by visiting the website link in our bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/corner-country-australia-outback-tour/ Don’t let this experience pass you by.

Rainbow Valley, remnant of the James Range offers its sandstone bands, cliffs and ramparts to the glorious Central Austr...
13/03/2024

Rainbow Valley, remnant of the James Range offers its sandstone bands, cliffs and ramparts to the glorious Central Australia sunset. A living cultural landscape and photographer’s delight, it sits in the traditional lands of the Upper Southern Arrernte people, carved by winds and rains over millions of years. Just one of 30 equally extraordinary features enjoyed on our 15 day Adelaide to Alice Springs Classic Outback Tour including the Flinders and MacDonnell Ranges, Lake Eyre - Kati Thanda, the Painted Desert, Chambers Pillar and Palm Valley, icons of the SA and NT outback rarely witnessed on mainstream tours. Book your experiences today and join 6 other guests on tour by visiting the website link in our bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/outback-tour-australia-adelaide-to-alice-springs/

Sunset drifts across the scenic Lunette features of Mungo National Park where the burial history of Mungo Man and Mungo ...
12/03/2024

Sunset drifts across the scenic Lunette features of Mungo National Park where the burial history of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady of 42,000 years ago was revealed by the desert drifting sands. Part of the World Heritage Willandra Lakes complex, a feature of Nature Bound Australia’s 11 day Big Rivers Tour through the Murray Darling Basin, following wildlife corridors and inland rivers from source to sea. Experience an exceptional outback journey by booking today via the website link in our bio or https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/darling-river-run-outback-nsw/

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Try mindfulness - Connecting with Nature
Try mindfulness - Connecting with Nature

WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCOVER the art of truly connecting with nature and The Australian Bush, from extraordinary scenery to the tiniest of wildflowers? To open the way for all your senses to come into play, focusing on life's creativity all around and following a path to mindfulness on a Nature Bound Tour

Quality Outback adventures for Over 50s
Quality Outback adventures for Over 50s

Life is all about having quality holiday adventures once you have reached the ripe young age of 50. At Nature Bound Australia we design comfortable small group outback journeys for like minded people seeking active experiences by day and creature comforts by night. Opportunity to revitalise the body, mind and spirit free of the trappings of a demanding lifestyle at home. All our tours are offered on an all inclusive price basis covering quality accommodation and catering, side tours, special entries and more

A uniquely Australian Land of Contrasts Tour for Over 50s active adventurers also seeking creature comforts
A uniquely Australian Land of Contrasts Tour for Over 50s active adventurers also seeking creature comforts

Enjoy a remarkable contrasting presentation of Australia including tropical beaches, world heritage islands and Great Barrier Reef, sandstone gorges of the outback, monoliths of the Granite Belt, world heritage Gondwana Rainforests, plummeting gorges and waterfalls, loads of history and legend and much more. An all inclusive price fully catered and accommodated departing Brisbane August 11 and September 1, 2019 with Early Bird discounts through until end of February. Ideal for international visitors or Australians seeking to know their country. https://www.natureboundaustralia.com/tours/experience-australia-unique-to-australia/

Over 50s journey to the Corner Country in July 2019
Over 50s journey to the Corner Country in July 2019

Enjoy a comfortable Over 50s small group adventure to the Corner Country in 2019 to visit legendary communities of Birdsville, Innamincka, Tibooburra, historic explorer pathways and events of Burke and Wills, Charles Sturt, Thomas Mitchell plus iconic Sturt National Park scenery and wildlife and three deserts, Strzelecki, Sturt Stony and Simpson. A once in a lifetime outback informative adventure.

Holidays for Over 50s Solo Travellers
Holidays for Over 50s Solo Travellers

Holidays for Over 50s Solo Travellers

Quality of Life adventure holidays for Over 50s
Quality of Life adventure holidays for Over 50s

Life is all about quality adventures after 50

Adventure holidays for women with Nature Bound
Adventure holidays for women with Nature Bound

We celebrate the spirit of adventure in women who are "letting their hair down", embarking on a selection of outback holidays with Nature Bound in 2019. Enjoy authentic experiences in comfort and style, beyond your wild expectations. Surprise your family, friends and colleagues with your dare and spirit. For more www.natureboundaustralia.com/celebrating-spirit-adventure-women/

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