Australia's best scenic flights

On the Shellar Door experience, your seaplane pilot takes you on a 20-minute flight to the Broken Bay Pearl Farm. After touchdown, you’ll cruise the waterways and discover the local oyster farming and pearl industry. Before you head back, enjoy a ‘Pearlers' Platter’ – a bespoke picnic lunch with fresh Sydney rock oysters and pearl meat. And at the day’s end, relax in Sydney Seaplane’s Empire Lounge overlooking a Sydney Harbour sunset.

The “pub crawl” – gathering your mates and having one drink in a pub before heading on to the next pub – is an Australian tradition. In the Northern Territory, you can take it up a notch on the original Heli Pub Crawl with Airborne Solutions. Departing from Darwin, you’ll get to visit seven outback pubs across five hours. From landing on the beach to watching crocs and getting a bird’s-eye view of the outback, this is no ordinary pub crawl.

Soak up the views of the Yarra Ranges, just outside Melbourne, on a winery day trip with Australian Air Safaris. You’ll head up to the King Valley wine region in northern Victoria and land on the airstrip at the Brown Brothers winery estate. After a private tour of the iconic winery, founded in 1889, you’ll sit down to a relaxed afternoon of fine dining before heading back to Melbourne.

Wilpena Pound Resort lies in South Australia's ancient Flinders Ranges, a sacred place to the local Aboriginal Adnyamathanha people. The landscape is more than 600 million years old, and there’s no better way to see it than from the air. Take a scenic flight to soar over Wilpena Pound’s beguiling natural amphitheatre – a jaw-dropping 17km (10mi) long and 8km (5mi) wide – before reaching the glistening pink salt crystals of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.

The Tasman Peninsula, south-east of Hobart, is one of Tasmania’s most dramatic landscapes, and you can fly over it on a full day out with Tasmania Air Tours. Gaze out your window to see jagged sea cliffs (the tallest in the Southern Hemisphere), waterfalls spilling into the wild ocean and two World Heritage-listed convict sites: Coal Mines and Port Arthur Historic Site. Landing at the latter, you’ll be guided around the 1800s buildings while hearing eerie stories of the past.

The Kimberley region is one of the world’s last wilderness frontiers where natural phenomenons, dinosaur footprints and 360-million-year-old rock formations meet. One of the most extraordinary landscapes is the UNESCO Bungle Bungles, which rise more than 300m (984ft) above the earth in Purnululu National Park. Gawp at these beehive-like black and orange domes – a sight that’s been seen by few – during the Ultimate Bungle Bungle Flight with HeliSpirit.