2016 - APT Outback Wilderness Adventures

APT-OWA-2016-AU$

Cape York and Outback Wilderness Adventures, Red Centre, Lake Eyre, Flinders Ranges and Western Australia

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14 Outback Wilderness Adventures today Celebrating 50 Years of Outback Touring We're extremely honoured to share with you a love for the Australian Outback. From a school camping trip in 1964 to our extensive touring program today, we always maintain a spirit of adventure and are committed to sharing with you a passion for exploration. An Australian Story A school bus driver in Bayside Victoria, it was in 1964 that Geoff McGeary took a group of students from St Leonard's College on a camping trip to Central Australia. In those days, the roads were dirt, they travelled in a school bus, and accommodation options barely existed. However, it must have been an amazing trip, as today APT offers more than 100 different holidays to every continent on earth. Geoff has always considered Australian Outback touring as the core of APT's business, and during the 70s and 80s, continued to expand and improve upon the Outback Australia pogram. In 1998, APT purchased Australian Kakadu Tours and in 2003 the Wunan Foundation invited APT to purchase 60% of the fledgling Kimberley Wilderness Adventures, with its network of camps in Western Australia's Kimberley region. After that first trip in 1964, a new era in the Australian travel industry was born. Five decades on, the level of quality may be much higher, but APT still holds true to that spirit of adventure, passion for travel, and love of the Australian Outback. Today, we offer expertly-crafted adventures; from small group escorted 4WD tours, to sensational cruises, independent air tours, and Wilderness Lodge stays for the self-drive traveller. This pioneering spirit shows. APT is recognised as the touring specialists in Australia and in particular, the Kimberley and Outback. More passengers choose APT for Australia than any other premium tour operator. Similarly, APT has hosted more people in the Kimberley than any other operator. Geoff's daughter Lou and her husband Rob currently manage APT's Kimberley and Outback Wilderness Adventures program. The very first Outback tour to Central Australia in 1964 Geoff driving one of the first Outback adventures Vijay - please add photo of Geoff driving bus from 'Australian Story' page 3 - APT1256 Caption: Geoff McGeary at the wheel on one of APT's first Outback adventures. www.kimberleywilderness.com.au

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