“There are walks into the wilderness, birdlife on a Ramsar scale, about 65,000 years of Aboriginal history to absorb and places to exhale a big deep Back O’ Bourke exhale” Sixth time? Yes, the first was in 2008. Needless to say, the Darling River Run provides me with my explorer holiday fix in different ways every trip. The farm stays, the national parks, the outback pubs, the Indigenous history and of course, the mighty Darling (Baaka) River and its ever-changing faces. There are walks into the wilderness, birdlife on a Ramsar scale, about 65,000 years of Aboriginal history to absorb and places to exhale a big deep Back O’ Bourke exhale.
“If you know Bourke, you know Australia,” is a famous quote from Henry Lawson. Well, Mr Lawson, and we…
