Traveller featured ‘Australia wildlife safari holidays: How to go on safari without going to Africa’ with Flinders Ranges Arkaba Conservancy in the spotlight, as writer Catherine Marshall takes a drive on the wild side on a recent trip to the remote South Australian Homestead.

“The safari Landcruiser crunches gravelled quartzite and whips spear grass as it carries us up the rise. At the top, we peer out into a seeming infinity. The storm clouds are stained pink now by a gumdrop sun; spinifex falls away from us like a shaken blanket; high above, a wedge-tailed eagle surfs the breeze. ‘Look at all those green trees,’ says our wilderness guide Bruce Lawson. ‘That’ll be a creek line. Dry river beds. Drainage lines. When you’re up high and you look down, it’s like a road map.’ So dense is the ecosystem before us that we’d need a lifetime to appreciate its complexity. The only checklist that really matters is this: Binoculars? Check. Mosquito repellent? Check. Gin and tonics? Double – actually, triple – check. Half a world away from the game parks of our mutual homeland, South Africa, and the spotting of the Big Five, it’s a safari but not as Bruce has known it. Here in South Australia’s remote and untamed Flinders Ranges it’s a foreign environment that presents exciting challenges for one of Southern Africa’s most experienced wilderness guides.” – Catherine Marshall, Traveller.

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