Nogo Station Experience: Insightful Outback Adventure with Wildlife Safari and Kinnon Family Hosting

Embark on an insightful outback adventure at Nogo Station, hosted by the Kinnon family. Experience a wildlife safari, learn about station life, and enjoy home-baked treats under the gum trees.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Longreach - You start with a short tour of Longreach heritage sites, accompanied by personal insights and stories from your Kinnon family host.
What's Included
  • Home-baked saddle-bag lunch included
  • Dietary requirements accommodated (call in advance)
Additional Information

This excursion offers a rich tapestry of visuals, audios, in-depth perspectives, and a taste of the bush humour. Your personal host from the Kinnon family, will guide you through a comprehensive exploration of farm life, encompassing the tale of merino in the shearing shed, Captain Starlight’s cattle yards, and a fascinating station safari on a double-decker, open-top bus to view the variety of fauna and avifauna inhabiting the bush. The tour concludes with a pioneer’s fresh-baked tea break under the Eucalyptus trees.

  • Do you require dietaries? Please list in notes.
Location
Longreach
Landsborough Highway,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Maynessal
Jul 26, 2024
Great time at Nogo - We really enjoyed the whole experience. It was good to be picked up from the hotel by coach, taken to the Nogo station, and taken back at the end of the morning. The commentary by the driver was informative and entertaining. The trip on the bus was great. We saw lots of wildlife. The lunch was enjoyable. It was great to see the dog bring a flock of sheep into the shearing shed. Listening to Jeremy telling stories about life on a shearing station was interesting and very entertaining. It was well worth the money
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Gabriellab1962
Jul 24, 2024
Life on a sheep station - Experiencing a sheep station was eye opening. We learnt about the intricate skill and knowledge required in sheep grading, shearing, the importance of all the rolls in the shearing shed. Riding in the open air bus across the paddocks was great. Saw, goats, pigs, birds, kangaroos, emus, camels, donkeys - a relative menagerie! Was a great day out - exhilarating. Won't be able to look at wool the same again without due respect for those behind it - all of them!
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Kevin_k
May 17, 2024
Educational and fun - Educational and fun. Loved the sheep shearing info, host was knowledgeable and interesting. Highly recommend
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Jeffgoldcoast
Sep 22, 2023
Don't miss this. - We were taken out to the station from Longreach to the station with great commentary along the way. The countryside was really dry. Once there we were taken to a shearing demonstration with Jeremy. What a character! He explained while shearing all the intricacies about cattle raising and the types of wool. Dog was beautiful as well. Great demo and learnt so much. After this we were put on a open double decker bus. Had earphones and driven around the station to look at all the different cattle (and wildlife) that were on there. Really interesting. At the end of that part, when we had been driven around and shown all we were taken for a damper lunch of roast beef and Billy tea. Great to be shown all this, then driven back to town. Very informative and interesting day.
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Mtk_1987
Sep 12, 2023
Great Nogo Experience - This was such a great tour - interesting and fun. Jeremy took our tour and he seriously made it so much fun. He really had everyone laughing while telling us so many great stories.
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Dominique
Sep 11, 2023
Nogo Station - Recently visited Nogo Station and it was very informative. Jeremy definitely makes this tour fun. Would be nice to actually see a sheep being clipped. Morning tea was lovely - apple, dampener, roast beef sandwich, if you have kids that are fussy eaters I would definitely take your own. Water supplied during the tour. Lots of animals to see. A definite must do on your trip to Longreach.
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Cliffordd_f
Aug 31, 2023
So different from Scotland - All the trip was very enjoyable. We are now a bit better informed about farming in the Outback. So different from growing up in Scotland. Host was so knowledgable (And entertaining!) Nice to have someone with "hands on" experience.
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Goughsix
Aug 28, 2023
Nogo Station - history and pioneer spirit - Our third tour with Outback Pioneers led by the fantastic Jeremy. I think my favourite tour! His knowledge, humour and love of his hometown was obvious! His talk in the woodshed was wonderful; so great to hear from someone so genuine and who has actually experienced the woodshed. The tour of the station in an open top double decker bus, listening to J about the stock, fauna and history of Nogo was very interesting. Lunch under the shade of a coolibah tree, in the vast paddocks-very special. Thank you Outback Pioneers- 3 tours, money spent well worth it!
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Joanne
Jul 10, 2024
Great for kids - Out of the three activities we did in Longreach, this was by far the best. Jeremy was a great presenter of the history of shearing, some of the historical tensions and making it accessible to young and old alike. The kids loved seeing the animals and particularly liked the open top bus ride around the paddocks. The beginning of the trip with a quick recent history of Longreach was also good, and both hosts refrained from mysogynistic jokes that seemed to be par for the course elsewhere in town.
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Mary_m
Sep 16, 2023
Fun on the farm - Great morning out hearing about the day to day running of a sheep station. Nice saddlebag lunch provided…very good commentary from the hosts
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