My wife and I did a GOANA tour in the Spring of 2002. I can't remember
the name of the tour (something like Great Outback Adventure) but it
consisted of 16 days of flying around the Outback. It was a fantastic
trip. GOANA is as professional as you could possibly ask for.
Everything, and I do mean everything, was anticipated and taken care of.
The accomodations and the meals were as good as you could get, allowing
for some of the remote destinations. The airplanes (all C172s) were well
maintained and good looking. On our trip there were 5 couples and one
single pilot from the Netherlands. The single pilot shared an aircraft
with our guide. Our guide, BTW, was Lang Kidby, the copilot on the
re-creation of the Vickers Vimy flight from London to Sydney a few years
back. If I remember correctly, the cost of the trip in 2002 was $4800
each, double occupancy. Of course, that did not include airfare to Oz.

Joy and I hope to take another GOANA trip in the near future.

If you would like any further information or copies of some of the pix
we took on the trip, I would be happy to help you.

Good luck!

Rick Graves
1974 C177B - N34759

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004
14:07:23 -0400, Jeremy Lew wrote:

Has anyone had any experience with this outfit? Seems like it would make a
great vacation:
http://www.goana.com.au/gaas.html.

I can't find prices anywhere on the site though, which scares me.

Jeremy