Experience silence, space and freedom on Australia’s huge outback stations .
In Australia the movie, Lady Sarah Ashley, played by Nicole Kidman, learns that everything in the Australian outback happens on an epic scale. That includes love affairs and landscapes, star-filled skies and cattle stations.
Lady Ashley trades her ordered, upper-class life in England for a long and arduous journey across Australia and a station as big as Belgium. Despite all the challenges, she falls in love with a rugged drover, played by Hugh Jackman, and the vast, limitless quality of Australia’s interior.
Experience this silence, space and freedom for yourself with a stay on an outback station. They sprawl across the landscape from Western Australia to Queensland. You might not meet Hugh Jackman, but you can learn to muster cattle and herd sheep and enjoy hearty country food and open campfires. See misty mornings and rusty sunsets. Hear stories from a family who have lived and take in endless horizons from horseback.
Stay on a historic homestead in Blinman in South Australia, and explore the rugged Flinders Ranges by four wheel drive or flight. Learn to lasso animals and groom and ride horses on a farm school near Tamworth in New South Wales. Explore the outback with people who have lived on the land for generations on a pioneering property south-west of Darwin. Hike through gorges, swim beneath waterfalls, see Aboriginal rock art, go fishing and four wheel driving on a sprawling cattle station in Kununurra in Western Australia.
On Queensland’s 11,000 acre Nardoo Station, you can end your day with a campfire yarn and a warm artesian spa under the stars. Under the vast outback sky is the perfect place to share stories with people across the world and reflect on your day on the station. Whether you spent it shearing sheep, mending fences, yabbying, bushwalking or, it would have been an invigorating experience.
On Nardoo, meals are as big as your appetite and you’ll get proper, home-cooked farm tucker almost every night. If you do want to test your cooking prowess, there’s a fully equipped camp kitchen and barbeque. After all, the best way to experience the larger-than-life outback is with a few little luxuries.