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Wildlife
of
Brisbane
day-tour 
RATES:
please
click
here
for prices of our tours
(in Australian dollars)
Tours
depart
from:
Brisbane
Transit
Centre
(Roma Street), or your city
or
southside accommodation (other by
arrangement)
Suitable
for all ages and fitness levels
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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
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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.
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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 |
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