Our day tours and multi-day tours:

Seeking wild platypus, kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, possums, fruitbats, forest birds, wetland birds, reptiles, frogs, butterflies and other wildlife

Learning from wildlife experts about the behaviour and ecology of our native animals: our three-day wildlfe tour in particular was desgned by zoologist Dr Ronda Green as a kind of minicourse on Australian wildlife and how it came to be so different from other world regions
Traveling to forests (including canopy), mountains, wetlands, beaches and the true outback

Mostly viewing in the wild but on some tours also visiting conservation-focused wildlife parks to see rare and threatened species or species we aren't likely to encounter in the wild

Seeing a brilliant Milky Way, far from city lights, on our multi-day tours

Viewing a magical 'starry sky' of glow worms on our wildlife day tour, in a cave with night and day reversed so we can see them without waiting for nightall

Local foods and wines

Joining citizen science and conservation projects

Safe, comfortable travel

Nature education activities on weekend camps

Introduction to bird-watching and bird behaviour, the natural history of Southeast Queensland (especially the Scenic Rim) or local plant identification (all ages, mostly from 12 to 80's plus)

Children's nature-education games, arts and crafts, and nature observation walks (mostly for ages 5-12)

How to be a field ecologist (mostly for ages 12-16)

Come for the day, spend the weekend camping next to the Araucaria property, or stay in one of the many accommodation options in the Scenic Rim

Hire us to conduct activities in other locatons (talks, excursions, nature games, fauna surveys)

Details of nature education weekends here

For more information on our tours:

Visit Day tours for details of our bird-watching day-tour to forests and wetlands; our wildlife and forests day tour which visits rainforest, eucalypt forest and tea-tree woodlands seeking birds, koalas, kangaroos and other species plus a cave where glow worms shine during the day thanks to day-into-night cave lightjng; and Coochie-mudoe Island, a gentle island walk exploring sandy and rocky shores, mangroves and coastal woodland and the birds, butterflies and shorelife.

Visit Multi-day tours for details of our 3-day introduction to Australia's wildlife; 3-day birding for beginners; 8-day outback; special citizen science tours

Custom tours (day or multi-day): contact us for possibilities

Where we travel

The Scenic Rim: rich in wildlife, wonderful mountain scenery, variety of forests

Wetlands with abundant birdlife in Greater Brisbane and further afield

Quiet beaches edged with woodland, away from crowds

The true outback: red sands, red kangaroos, emus, mulga woodlands ...

Wildlife

The Scenic Rim is part of the neNSW/seQld border region,
which harbours the third highest biodiversity in Australia

Many species, large and small, famous and little-known, live here:

kangaroos, wallabies, koalas, possums, gliders, bandicoots, quolls, other marsupials,
platypus, echidna (the egg-laying mammals)
fruitbats, microbats and native rodents
lyrebirds, bowerbirds, cockatoos, spoonbills, raptors, many other birds
pythons, monitor lizards, many frogs,
butterflies, glow worms and many more
... plus many plants and colourful fungi

(No guarantees of particular species on any particular day)

Click here for our wildlife pages

Also see:

Our guides Ronda and Darren
Safety on tour
Conservation and animal welfare

Enjoy seeing, learning about and helping our wildlife!

Araucaria Ecotours

Our day tours and multi-day tours:

Nature education activities on weekend camps

For more information on our tours:

Where we travel

Wildlife