Central Air Services offers a unique opportunity to see Lake Eyre and the rugged outback from the relative comfort of Rawnsley Park Station. Located under the shadow of Wiplena Pound in the Flinders Ranges offering a wide variety of accomodation from camping through to the luxury of the award winning Eco Villas. Our operation is one of closest to the lake that is serviced by bitumen roads. It allows people who do not own a 4wd or wish to punish their own vehicle on the dirt tracks around the lake, a cost effective option of seeing the wonder that is Lake eyre.
The flights depart from Rawnsley Park and encompass all the highlights and features of our 30min scenic flight over the historic Flinders Ranges before travelling north up over station country, the dog proof fence and the many Great Artesian Basin bores on the way up to Lake Eyre North. Once over the northern lake you will spend approx 15-20 minutes over the lake witnessing all the incredible natural art formations and the location of Sir Donald Campbell world speed record attempts.
Stopping in at the infamous William Creek Hotel for a lunch and a quick stroll around the town. We then take off and fly over the Painted Hills country tracking for the opal mining town of Andamooka where you view the surface mining bringing up the white subsoil. From there we fly over Lake Torrens Australia's 2nd largest salt lake back to our home base in the Flinders Ranges.
2010 is an exciting year with water soon to be flowing in from Cooper Creek which only had minimal flows in 2009. Local rain fall has settled into the lower sections of the northen and southern lakes. When the water mixes with the high iron oxide contained in the soil, it creates an amazing collage of incredible colours.
Lake Eyre Facts
Lake Eyre is the overall name given to Lake Eyre North and Lake Eyre South. Lake Eyre North is the larger of the two at 177km north/south by 74km east/west. The lake is down to 15.7m below sea level but on average it's around 3m below seal level.
Lake Eyre and Muloorina Station were the base for Donald Campbell's 1963/64 world land speed record, we fly near Muloorina station.
Lake Eyre rarely floods, though with the amount of rain up north, 2010 is shaping up to be a spectacular flood year. Don't miss out!
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