Wildlife and Nature Tours with Araucaria Ecotours
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Want to learn a lot about wildlife? This is our specialty.Regular tours include 1-day, 2-day and 3-day wildlife tours, 1-day bird-watching or bushwalking and other nature-based activites . We also provide custom tours with sufficient notice. Most tours depart from and return to Brisbane, but other pickups and destinations can be arranged with sufficient notice.
We cannot guarantee any particular species on a particular day, but there are some we're always pretty sure of. We do guarantee you'll see wildlife, also that we will cater for your dietary needs (if you tell us beforehand), that we will not cancel your tour because of low numbers (even if it should happen that you're the only one) and that we will take care of you right up to the end of the tour (not leave you stranded on a dark street as some tour companies have done to us in the past).
Winner of three awards: Beaudesert Shire Ecotourism Award (jointly with O'Reilly's Guest House) 2002, OM4Tourism Hidden Jewel Award 2008, Rainforest Way Nature Toutirsm Award for Scenic Rim Tourism Awards 2008 Search for wild kangaroos, koalas and the shy platypus. Watch thousands of large and noisy fruitbats take flight. Learn about the behaviour and eclogy of our mammals, birds, reptiles and other native creatures, Understand the 'big picture' your sightings fit into - what makes Australia so diferent?
Take time also to relax and enjoy the scenery and great food on your Queensland or Australian vacation.
Email us ........ Contact by phone, fax or mail
Our regular overnight tours involve either primitive camping or accommodation in a beautiful secluded bed-and-breakfast with one of the best cooks we know
-Small groups (usual maximum 10) allow flexibility to cater for different interests and fitness levels within the group.
Note: no tours in final week of year.
All ages, fitness levels, diets and budgets catered for.Tell us your needs as well as your interests when booking
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Araucaria Ecotours offers Australia's most comprehensive wildlife tours. We can show you most of Australia's' icon species, in the wild (kangaroos, koalas, platypus,emus, kookaburras, wedge-tailed eagle) or captivity (cassowary, crocodile), show you many lesser-known birds, mammals and other animals, explain some fascinating aspects of their ecology and behaviour, and introduce you to many of Australia's ecosystems. Wildlife guests receive a custom-written book on Australia's wildlife, its evolution and ecology. Our bird-watching and other wildlife tours are designed, and usually run, by a research zoologist. We can customize for your special interests. Self-drives can also drop in to our Wildlife Information Centre. When you ask questions we do out best to answer accurately, admitting when we don;t know, have a good library of natural history books you can refer to and can offer advice on where to seek further information.
Awards
Joint winner of Ecotourism Award, Beaudesert Shire Tourism Awards 2002
Winner of Queensland branch of OM4 Tourism's Hidden Jewel Awrds 2008
Winner of Rainforest Way Nature Tourism Award, Scenic Rim Tourism Awards 2008
Araucaria Ecotours is a member of Wildlife Tourism Australia (Araucaria proprietor Dr Ronda Green is vice-president), Ecotourism Australia, ATEC., QTIC, Beaudesert Country Tourism and Brisbane Marketing.
Other memberships: LACA (Logan ad Albert Conservation Association), Ecology Society of Australia, Australian Primate Society and Lamington Natural History Association (Darren is secretary).
Ecological, behavioural and conservation research is conducted on the Araucaria property and elsewhere, and environmental and other consultancies are conducted by Araucaria staff. Much of the previously cleared areas of thr Araucaria property has been revegetated with rainforest plants.We also host WWOOF members and work experience students interested in wildlife ecology, rainforests or ecotourism.
Telephone 61 7 55441283 (within Australia 07 5544 1283, within Queensland just 5544 1283)
Address: 1770 Running Creek Road, via Rathdowney, Queensland, Australia 4287 (17.7km southeast of Rathdowney)
Email platypuscorner@bigpond.com ..... Fax (phone us first) 61 7 5544 1587
