Gawler Ranges - Five Day Tour

Travel along Highway One through the towns of Port Wakefield, and Port Germein to Port Augusta for lunch at the Wadlata Café. before continuing through Iron Knob, and Kimba to Minnipa on Eyre Peninsula.

There is a day trip within the Gawler Ranges National Park, visiting Old Paney Homestead, Kolay Mirica Falls (Organ Pipe Formation) , Kolay Hut and the Old Paney Shearing Shed. Leaving the Park on the Barnes Road to Wudinna, and Mt Wudinna, Polda Rock and The Australian Farmer Granite Sculpture.

A short detour on leaving Minnipa to Pildappa Rock ( South Australia’s “wave rock”) and Tcharkulda Rock before heading to Mt Ive Station in the heart of the Gawler Ranges.

We call in to the Tourist Resort to pick up an access key to Lake Gairdner then visit the third largest salt lake in Australia! Heading east, we pass the sheep stations of Kolendo, Nonning, Siam and Corunna to Iron Knob where the Eyre Highway leads to Port Augusta.

Return is via Horrocks Pass to Wilmington and Melrose in the Southern Flinders Ranges, then home to Adelaide through Ororroo, Burra and the Gilbert Valley