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Atherton Tablelands Rain Forest by Night from Cairns
1 day
By night
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About this activity
With pickup from Cairns’ city hotels, your wildlife-spotting tour begins in the early afternoon.
See wonders of nature including thousand-year-old kauri pines, as your expert guide leads you along interpretive trails through the rainforest to search for butterflies, birds and flying foxes (bats).
Your tour takes you to a spectacular volcanic pool at Lake Barrine, where afternoon tea at the tea house is served.
As dusk falls, follow a trail by the river to search for the shy platypus, one of the world's most unusual animals.
Enjoy dinner at a country restaurant, then go spotlighting on a walk under the southern stars. While helping you wind your way through the World Heritage-listed rainforest, your guide will point out tiny ringtail possums hiding in the trees, shiny green gecko lizards, the local Lumholtz tree kangaroo, glider possums, frogs and owls.
You'll come away with a greater appreciation of Australia's wonderful wildlife, environment and culture on this original spotlighting tour. Operating for more than 30 years, the tours are led by knowledgeable, enthusiastic and professional local guides who are familiar with North Queensland's lush and fertile wet tropics rainforests.
To help you spot the wildlife, use of on-board spotlights, binoculars and rain ponchos is included.
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See wonders of nature including thousand-year-old kauri pines, as your expert guide leads you along interpretive trails through the rainforest to search for butterflies, birds and flying foxes (bats).
Your tour takes you to a spectacular volcanic pool at Lake Barrine, where afternoon tea at the tea house is served.
As dusk falls, follow a trail by the river to search for the shy platypus, one of the world's most unusual animals.
Enjoy dinner at a country restaurant, then go spotlighting on a walk under the southern stars. While helping you wind your way through the World Heritage-listed rainforest, your guide will point out tiny ringtail possums hiding in the trees, shiny green gecko lizards, the local Lumholtz tree kangaroo, glider possums, frogs and owls.
You'll come away with a greater appreciation of Australia's wonderful wildlife, environment and culture on this original spotlighting tour. Operating for more than 30 years, the tours are led by knowledgeable, enthusiastic and professional local guides who are familiar with North Queensland's lush and fertile wet tropics rainforests.
To help you spot the wildlife, use of on-board spotlights, binoculars and rain ponchos is included.
Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Local guide
- Afternoon tea
- Dinner
- National Park fee
- All equipment (binoculars, spotlighting gear, rain ponchos, reference materials)
- Entry/Admission - Atherton Tablelands
Not included
- Drinks, unless specified
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Please wear closed toe shoes and a jacket for night time.
- A moderate amount of walking is involve. Low fitness level required
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Please bring insect spray as this is not provided
Features
Tourism
70%
Nightlife
45%
Cultural
40%
Original
30%
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Lets be clear, this trip is all about the wildlife. Paul has some very useful local knowledge, and tries his best to put you in a position to see the animals. To that end he drives you out of Cairns to the Tablelands, and then from location to location looking for birds/animals/trees/plants/insects of interest. I was in a group that was very into it, and it was very enjoyable bonding with these people. Food stop was more than adequate at pleasant village hotel. For the record we saw: platypus incredible ... we got very close!!, tree kangaroos, wallabies, possums 3 types, flying foxes, cane toads, white tailed rat, bearded dragon, brush turkey, huntsmans spider, fig tree. The after dark part is a treat. Totally safe. No issues with creepy crawlies or biting bugs. Most memorable tour on my month-long trip to Australia/New Zealand.
Good tour, but it's not for experienced travelers if you've been in real trips of Indonesia/Thailand in the jungle. Don't expect you'll go further to jungle than 100 meters from where you parked : . During the trip you will drive between 4-5 known spots where particular animals live and make short stops to see them. While it's a good value for the price - just be aware that you're not going to 8 hour long expedition to the jungle that was my mistake thinking so, and nobody here commented on the real flow of the tour.
This tour was amazing!
Very informative guide that really cares about the Australian wildlife. Wildlife is hard to predict so I didn't see a lot until dark but it was still really great! Thanks!
Wallabies, possums, king fishers, ibis, rainbow lorikeets, flying foxes, turtles, worms, a caterpillar, platypus, micro bat... we spotted a lot of animals on this exciting trip! Unfortunately, we had had bad weather for the last 5 days and it was still rainy so it was hard to hear/see more. I wish we had also seen tree kangurus, snakes, frogs... which were mentioned. I think our guide was also a bit disappointed but they remained jolly. We were told tons about the rainforest and the areas we drove through throughout the trip. We had a good dinner have the rib filet if you fancy beef! and we saw the Curtain Fig, which is an incredible tree. I also appreciated the personal touch at the end: our guide played the music of their friend on the way back in the bus, which was very pleasant. I'm glad I chose this tour!