The advantage of the three day trip is that not only do we go further into the outback, Kirkhope Aviation have 2 nights and three days so that you feel as though you have been away for a week or more. Some options include the following:

3 Day Tour: Melbourne – Mungo National Park - White Cliffs Opal Town

Fly direct to Mungo, landing on the dirt airstrip and taxi right to the lodge. Stay at Mungo for the day and take a half day drive through this amazing remote landscape to view the China wall and the amazing sandstone landscape especially around sunset. Dinner in the lodge then after breakfast next morning fly another 1½ hrs to White Cliffs. This is an opal town. Visit "Mad Jock’s" underground home, tour the town and stay at PJ’s Underground B&B. Dinner is at PJ’s and then a drink at the pub is on the cards. After breakfast, depart White Cliffs for Moorabbin stopping for lunch and a cruise on the Murray River at Echuca.

3 Day Tour: Melbourne – Kangaroo Island – Melbourne

Depart Moorabbin for Kingscote on Kangaroo Island. Arriving at about 11am, we drive to our accommodation near the south coast. Then after lunch explore some of the sites of the island including seals, kangaroos, Admiralty Arch and Remarkable Rocks. Enjoy the next day and a half at Kangaroo Island seeing plenty of wildlife (seals, kangaroos in particular). Then at after lunch we fly back to Moorabbin arriving around 6pm.

3 Day Tour: Birdsville Races

This is one of the annual events that is popular. Departing Moorabbin on the Friday morning we fly to WhiteCliffs opal town for lunch then after a tour of "Mad jock’s" underground home we fly another hour onto Noccundra Hotel. This is a quaint “Cobb & Co” pub in the outback. Accommodation is at the pub in twin share type rooms. On Saturday early after breakfast the flight to Birdsville is about 1 hr. Arriving around 10 am we then put up tents at the aircraft and spend the day at the races. On Sunday morning it is normal to fly down to Innamincka on the Cooper Creek for a relaxing lunch at the Homestay and then return to Moorabbin arriving around 6pm.

3 Day Tour: Melbourne – Arkaroola – Rawnsley Park – Melbourne

Depart Moorabbin at 7am, refuel at Broken Hill, then land at Balcanoona in the northern Flinders Ranges. Drive through the rugged landscape to Arkaroola, a scenic, isolated and very comfortable village. After a relaxed lunch in the licensed restaurant, be exhilarated by the stunning Ridge Top Tour, the "most spectacular mountain scenic tour in Australia". Narrow trails scramble over breath-taking mountains and along razor back ridges, plummeting periodically into deep cool valleys and gorges. Views extend across the mountains and 80kms beyond Lake Frome to the horizon. The tour lasts approx. 4hrs. After dinner a tour of the Flinders Ranges Astronomical Observatory is a fascinating and worthwhile experience. Overnight at the Arkaroola Resort.

In the morning take a short flight across to Leigh Creek for fuel and enjoy a 3 hour ground tour including a visit to “Talc Alf”….one of Australia’s remaining outback characters who carves out of Talc Rock. Then mid afternoon fly down to Rawnsley Park homestead on the western side of the Flinders Ranges. Landing right on the property we book in and enjoy a drink around sunset before dining in the authentic woolshed restaurant overlooking the Rawnsley Park Bluff.

The final day includes either a nature walk or a half day 4WD tour around the Flinders Ranges (depending on preferences) then depart for Moorabbin arriving around 6pm.