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 love your work, it would be fitting to add that if “you know the Darling, you know New South Wales.” It's been intrinsically linked to NSW and Australian history and conjures up debate and argument today, whether it's the Murray-Darling Basin water licences, fish kills or lack of flow during drought. One thing that is not up for debate, however, is that it appeals to any traveller looking to escape, adventure and explore.
Let's look at the highlights that will have you coming back repeatedly.
