The following is an extract from the itinerary of a tour offered by "Down Under Coach Tours". A very accurate description of a property which, according to Cubbie chairman Keith De Lacy, has an "almost negligible" impact on the river system:

"DAY 3 ST GEORGE - CUBBIE STATION

Sunday 13th April: A full day touring Dirranbandi and surrounds. Today we enjoy a guided tour of the famous Cubbie Station. Cubbie Station is the largest privately-owned irrigation layout in Australia covering over 200,000 acres. Cubbie Station has few rivals anywhere in the world, and its massive water storage has created controversy in a dry land. The full extent of Cubbie's massive storage facilities are revealed during our tour with huge storage dams that stretch for 28 continuous kilometres down the trickle that is the Culgoa (or later Darling) River. Feeding this 12,000 hectares of water is a diversion channel wide enough to take a landing light aircraft, perched like an open mouth above a weir over the river. Cubbie Station has enough water capacity to more than swallow the waters of Sydney Harbour. Cubbie grows about 13,000 hectares of irrigated cotton and brings in about $50 million a year. After our awe-inspiring tour enjoy lunch under the shade of the trees next to the homestead."

Unfortunately the next tour is not scheduled until the Autumn of 2009.

[FULL ITINERARY HERE]