Adventures in Australia

Combine California's best beaches, the rugged beauty of the Oregon coast, add abundant exotic wildlife and some great rock digging: That's Australia's south coast! We'll hunt calcite, selenite, smoky quartz, spectacular fossils, and geodes while camping with kangaroos, koalas, and emus. We pick you up in Melbourne and travel through the heart of Australia's gold rush country. Their rush was bigger than California's, and produced picturesque towns with beautiful architecture.

We'll explore the "bush", with its abundant wildlife, camp at private mining sites, and experience the real Australia. You'll easily fill your carry-on luggage with good specimens, and we'll ship the rest home for you. Dig, hammer, and collect your way across our favorite stretch of Australia!

Read our trip report is here.

PRICES:

• $2100 per person for 9 days, mostly camping. If you prefer comfort to camping, we can arrange accomodations ranging from 'onsite vans' (clean, individual trailers that sleep 6 at RV parks) to plush B&B's, for an additional $60 to $100/night/unit (approximate).

Same trip plus opal digging at Andamooka available to adults only:

• $2900 per person for 13 days.

2012 TRIP DATES:

November 25 to December 7.  Three spaces available for adult travelers, email us to book.  This trip includes the opal digging option (13 days total), but we can arrange for you to return to Melbourne after 9 days.