TRAVEL GUIDES embarks on Flinders Ranges adventure tonight on Channel 9

This week our Journey Guides are off to the Flinders Ranges for a high-octane outback vacation, however will this a part of South Australia float their boats? Or will our Guides run out of steam?

Beginning in Renmark, the houseboat mecca of the mighty Murray, our Guides decide up their houseboats and uncover that driving a ship as huge as a home is simply as exhausting because it sounds. After a brush with neighbouring boats, a waterfront restaurant and a tree, our Guides handle to discover a mooring and chill out into all that life on water has to supply, together with on board jacuzzis.

The Murray River is the house of high-octane water sports activities, so our Guides strive getting towed behind a ski-boat on a sea-biscuit. For much more revs, they’ve a go in a Dinghy Derby boat, a death-defying sprint across the river bends.

Again on dry land, this journey kicks into sixth gear on the Loveday 4×4 Journey Park the place our Guides get into battle mode. On the biggest gel blasting discipline within the nation, they’re unleashed on the locals with semi-automatic gel blasters.

Leaving the Riverland and the Murray River behind, our Guides swap the river for the street, driving north to the magnificent Flinders Ranges and Wilpena Pound. It’s all about outback luxurious right here as they keep in eco-friendly villas at Rawnsley Park Station, an enormous sheep property with a pool voted one of the vital Instagrammable on the earth. Our Guides are put to work with the sheep however some must get the flock out.
A brief drive from Rawnsley Park, our Guides take their appetites to the tiny city of

Parachilna and the well-known Prairie Pub. The signature dish is the Feral Blended grill, a cornucopia of emu, kangaroo and camel, which a few of our Guides love and others battle to swallow.

To actually admire the fantastic thing about the Flinders Ranges, our Guides chopper over the big Wilpena Pound, touchdown on a distant touchdown pad, unreachable by land. However it’s the wild experience again to base that has a few of our Guides questioning in the event that they’ll ever go in a helicopter once more.

Our Guides end off their journey within the historic city of Quorn, the place a experience on the Pichi Richi Railway, a 100-year-old diesel prepare, offers them time to resolve what they’ll charge their Flinders Ranges Outback vacation out of 5 stars.

All our favorite journey critics are again: the loveable Fren household, twin cowgirls Stack and Mel, posh retirees Kevin and Janetta, finest mates Kev, Dorian and Teng, and journey addicts and longtime couple Matt and Brett.

In every episode of Journey Guides, our 5 teams of critics go to the identical location for a similar week-long vacation, reviewing the delicacies, lodging, actions, and vacationer sights.

Opinions all the time differ, resulting in brutally sincere and sometimes outrageous opinions as our Guides inform it precisely how they see it and charge every vacation out of 5 stars.

Narrated by widespread Aussie comic Denise Scott, Journey Guides is produced by 9.

Journey Guides – Flinders Ranges airs Wednesday, Might 4, at 7:30pm on 9 and 9Now.