Australia is a delightful country with a huge range of things to see and do. We offer an insight into Australia's natural environment by designing tailor-made journeys and safaris bringing together a select portfolio of outback properties, private bush camps and boutique lodges each chosen for its wilderness location. In addition to this specialist service we can incorporate luxury resort hotels, trains, regional flights, stylish city stays, hire cars, luxury transfers, private guides, scenic flights, charter boats and restaurants.
This website includes a selection of our recommended Australian experiences but as always we prefer to talk to you so that from the outset we can incorporate your interests and personal style and budget. Please contact us for personal assistance.
On the website you will find a selection of the exotic range of hotels and camps and suggested itineraries, which we can recommend without hesitation. Map of Australia
The Australian continent is an extraordinarily diverse environment, with the world’s oldest landscape and a unique flora and fauna. Geology and climate are the two main factors responsible for this.
The paucity of nutrients and isolation of the continent for millions of years since breaking away from the old Gondwanan southern landmass, has resulted in extreme specialisation in plant and animal species. The northern shores of the country are dominated by a wet monsoon in the summer months, and dry tropical climate throughout the rest of the year. The interior (essentially the outback) receives little rainfall, supporting a multitude of ephemerals when the rains do finally come, and a controlled cycle of reproduction amongst the resident mammals. The more populated and fertile eastern seaboard is backed by the Great Dividing Range, a plateau rather than mountain range, with a spectrum of forest type from tropical through temperate rainforest to wet sclerophyll forest. On the inside of the ranges, the vegetation changes rapidly through dry sclerophyll (mainly eucalypts) to open woodland (acacia dominated) and the dry scrub and saltbush country and semi-desert of the interior.
The South-eastern and South-western corners of the continent, and Tasmania have a more Mediterranean climate and tend to receive their rainfall in the southern hemisphere’s winter months. Within these broad vegetation types are local variations in soils, topography and micro-climates which give rise to separate habitats - these include mangroves, mudflats, salt pans, rocky outcrops, alpine bogs and riverine forests. | 
