Lorella Springs Wilderness Park

Description

Until further notice, Lorella Springs will remain closed to the drive-by market. Registered 4×4 guided tour groups are still permitted. Please contact us for details of groups currently booked for 2024 if you wish to join in. Fronting the Gulf of Carpentaria, located 15 degrees south of the Equator, in one of the most remote and isolated areas of Australia or even Planet Earth, Lorella Springs Station is a virtually untouched one million acre (4,000 square kilometre) property. Move away from the idyllic, un-spoilt beaches on its 25 kilometres of ocean frontage, past the bird filled lakes, past rivers, hills, forests and savannah lands, climb past chasms, past waterfalls and thermal springs, up the towering glittering crystalline escarpments, surveying this majestic massive country, and, as far as possible in every direction, all you can see is LORELLA.

With some of the best fishing in the Top End of Australia, this is one of the few properties in the Northern Territory Gulf that allows drive in and access through to the remote coast, making Lorella a unique place in the world. It is that unique environment and ecosystem that we aim to protect and therefore Lorella has a strict CATCH & RELEASE fishing policy (only eating what you intend on eating that night), and a very strict NO HUNTING policy (all flora and fauna protected).

A small part of Lorella operates as a cattle station, harvesting wild cattle from wherever accessible, but on most of it, until now, no white man has ever trod. You may be the first person to ever explore that piece of the world. The general area is known to have massive mineral riches including gold and diamonds. Giant prehistoric fossils have been found nearby. Perhaps you may have the next dinosaur named after you. Around it is wilderness reserve land, Aboriginal Land and Ocean frontage to the barely investigated Gulf of Carpentaria. There are hundreds of kilometres of untouched rivers, creeks and billabongs. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of bird, animal and plant species across Lorella... some may never have been recorded.

To give you some idea of the magnitude of Lorella: if it had the same population density as New York City, then you would be sharing it with 40 million others. When we are there, there will only be you, and a small handful of other adventurers.

By comparison, Lorella is twenty times the size of the country of Liechtenstein, two thousand times the size of Monaco, twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory, and for the locals in the NT, across Lorella would be the same in distance as Darwin to Adelaide River!