Tag Archives: Lake Eyre scenic flights
Jun 09

“The Living Room” goes outback to Lake Eyre

How good was Chris Brown and his feature on Channel 10′s- The Living Room last night? Chris and his TV crew really brought the vast and spectacular Outback to our screens as well as showing the magnificent and intense colours of Lake Eyre filling, in this rare event. It was great that the Moonplains out [...]

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Canoeing down the Cooper
Jun 03

2012 June-July Lake Eyre Tours and Outback Flight dates

Goin’ Off Safaris has just a few vacancies left for what could be a once in a lifetime experience to see Lake Eyre filling and the Outback in best ever condition. Following 4 years of well above average rainfall and summer floods in Queensland and NSW, these flood waters are now entering Lake Eyre and [...]

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May 22

Queensland flood waters now flowing into Lake Eyre

The current status of the water flowing into Lake Eyre is steadily on the rise. Floodwaters from the massive amount of summer rainfall that has been dumped on large areas of Queensland and New South Wales have now hit Australia’s “inland seabed” of Lake Eyre via many river systems along the journey before finally meandering [...]

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May 07

Lake Eyre: A journey through the heart of the continent

The country’s biggest lake, Lake Eyre, is surrounded by an ever changing environment. It is generally dry and barren, devoid of life- but when the rains finally come the area transforms into something quite spectacular. In 2009, ABC journalist Paul Lockyer set out to document the story of the lake. Featuring photographs by John Bean, [...]

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Apr 16

Goin’ Off Safaris Newsletter!!

Hey guys, check out our FIRST NEWSLETTER for the year here and get on our website to BOOK your LAKE EYRE SAFARI. CLICK HERE FOR GOIN’ OFF SAFARIS NEWSLETTER- APRIL 2012

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Apr 12

APRIL SPECIAL for Lake Eyre & Outback Tour

The word on the street is that no white man has ever seen the Outback in such great health, with the countryside absolutely blooming! With our 2 and 3 Day Lake Eyre & Outback flying tours about to commence, we are offering a special deal for our Lake Eyre tours in April. With limited seats [...]

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Mar 21

Lake Eyre special on ABC 1

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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Mar 19

2012 Rains flooding Outback and Lake Eyre regions

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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Nov 13

A must for the Bucket List- Flying in & around the Outback & Lake Eyre

Interestingly 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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Sep 21

Lake Eyre waters slowly evaporating

There is still plenty of water in the massive Lake Eyre, but the water is slowly evaporating as we have seen from our recent flying safaris from Adelaide and around the Outback Loop to Coober Pedy and back again. Our guests are still having a great time exploring the vastness and open country of the [...]

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