by Roger Smith | February 14, 2024 | Mungo Outback Journey
Discover the Magic of Mungo’s Songs: Creator spirits, Bunjil & the Rainbow Serpent (Wedge-tailed eagle over Brown Snake) Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Mungo sings its own magical songs. First you see this ancient landscape, then you feel it in your soul....
by Roger Smith | February 15, 2021 | Coast Mountains Outback, Great Ocean Road, Maximum Wildlife, Mungo Outback Journey
See up to 7 of Australia’s 14 species of cockatoos in the Grampians (Gariwerd) More cockatoos live in Australia than anywhere else in the world and the Grampians Range (Gariwerd) is one of the best places to see them. Gariwerd is the Aboriginal name for the...
by Roger Smith | December 10, 2020 | Coast Mountains Outback, Conservation Projects, Great Ocean Road, Mungo Outback Journey, Wildlife
Meet “Sandy” the Racehorse Goanna Sandy is no ordinary lizard – he’s 1.6 metres long and the high speed icon for our new “Coast, Mountains, Outback” tour series. Sand Monitors are beautiful, multi-coloured lizards of the Outback....
by Janine Duffy | April 27, 2019 | Bird News, Mungo Outback Journey
by Morwenna Petaia The Emu is one of the iconic birds of the Australian Outback, and there’s no better way to see them than on the Mungo Outback Journey. Here are 5 amazing facts about Emus. 1. Emus can go without food for 2 months. Female Emu birds are slightly...
by Janine Duffy | April 23, 2019 | Mungo Outback Journey
Sand is a destination. There’s a park called the Perry Sandhills just outside of Wentworth in New South Wales, Australia. Tomato-red sand dunes rise like standing waves above the saltbush plains, then collapse into the Murray River. There is wildlife too, but the main...
by Janine Duffy | April 3, 2019 | Bird News, Mungo Outback Journey
Pink Cockatoos: there’s something about them. Actually, there’s 5 things about them that make them very, very special. Its needless to point out that they are gorgeous. Just look at them. John Gould, pioneering ornithologist, called the Pink (Major Mitchell) Cockatoo...
