A weekend of panoramic views of Wilpena Pound from the highway and a stop at Charles Todd memorial for Overland Telegraph to Darwin 1871. Stop in Parachilna home of the Prairie hotel and some Ediacaran fossils. Stay in Leigh Creek, visit Copley and its famous bakery and railway station. Mystical Maree and the Commonwealth railway grave yard there, the thatched replica of the Afghans’ mosque and the water tower art. Farina - the northern out post of high optimism so town name flour in Latin! Many ruins and some restorations. We visit when the famous bakery will be open. The one SA ghost town that must be visited in one’s life time. Across the Willochra Plains of misery where farmers walked off their lands when the usual drought pattern returned in the 1880s. Time in historic Hawker, charming Quorn, Wilmington etc. The Aboriginal ochre pits near Lyndhurst and the start of the Strzelecki Track to Innamincka. Dinner/Bed & Breakfast at Leigh Creek Outback Resort. Single Supplement $956, Twin Share $836 (Twin share must be enrolled by contacting WEA on 82231979 and nominating who you will be sharing with).

Your Tutor is Dr Denis Binnion AM

Dr Denis Binnion AM has been teaching at WEA since 1974.

Denis became involved in adult education in the 1970s teaching evening classes in history for the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Institute of Technology. He joined the WEA in 1979 as a course programmer in language and liberal studies, and served as its Chief Executive Officer for 20 years.

As CEO, Denis established WEA Travel, a licensed travel agency that has been conducting Australian and overseas study tours since 1984. He has personally led dozens of group tours with up to 40 participants at a time to India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Canada, Peru, Argentina, Chile and New Zealand.

Denis has spent more than 40 years developing study tours and writing history notes for historical and geographical tours within South Australia, other states of Australia and places around the world including parts of Asia, South America and New Zealand. In his retirement he continues to lead WEA overseas study tours and runs regular one day and weekend historical tours of rural areas in South Australia.