Wildlife of Brisbane day-tour

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Tours depart from: Brisbane Transit Centre (Roma Street), or your city or southside accommodation (other by arrangement)

Suitable for all ages and fitness levels

Wildlife-viewing in a city?

There are still large tracts of forest and wetlands that have been protected within the Greater Brisbane region, with many fine walking trails through a variety of habitats. Here live red-necked wallabies, swamp wallabies, koalas, possums, gliders, bandicoots, fruitbats, microbats, brush turkeys, cockatoos, eagles, kookaburras, spoonbills, stilts, goannas, pythons, frogs ..... The surprisingly informative little book Wildlife of Greater Brisbane is a celebration of this diversity and a guide to identification of many of the wonderful creatures that live here.

Itinerary for the wildlife day-tour

We will pick you up at mid-day for a lovely lunch - choose from gourmet open sandwiches, salads, many other choices, some including Australian herbs and spices - at Redlands Indigiscapes, keeping watch for birds in the trees level with our table, then walk through the bushland looking for koalas, forest birds, waterbirds, lizards, butterflies and other creatures of the Australian bush.

Depending on the interested of our guests, the weather and where we've most recently seen animals, we visit a variety of other places, including Daisy Hill Forest. While walking in the forest here in the late afternoon we almost always see wild red-necked wallabies and sometimes swamp wallabies, and - if lucky - wild koalas. Prior to our walk we visit the Daisy Hill Koala Centre, run by National Parks, to see some captive koalas at close range (no cuddling here though) and view the interpretive displays - also a native beehive.

As dusk approaches we watch a large colony of increasingly noisy and restless fruitbats until finally, when they consider it dark enough to be safe from eagles, they start hurtling through the sky to seek flowers and fruits for their night's feasting. Before dropping you back to your accommodation or transport, we seek possums, owls and other nocturnal creatures. No guarantees - some nights we see a few, other nights nothing bigger than moths - but you do at least get a feeling for the atmosphere of the Australian bush at night.

Note: we cannot guarantee any particular animal on a particular day, and very few reptiles are active in the winter months.

If you would like to pay extra and include a trip to the rainforests and/or to see wild kangaroos as well as the wallabies, let us know well in advance.

red-necked wallaby and joey at Daisy Hill

Let us know well in advance if you would like to travel further than Brisbane for a better chance of seeing kangaroos (as opposed to wallabies, which Brisbane has plenty of) or rainforests, or to visit a wildlife park, we can customize a tour for you (additional cost involved).

Staying in the Scenic Rim or Gold Coast and would like a wildlife day-tour? It may be possible with sufficient notice (additional cost involved). See custom tours.

You may also be interested in our other day-tours and other tours