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BlueSky
Wildlife
Ecotourism
Ausralia
All our
regular tours have advanced eco-certification
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Araucaria Ecotours
Established 1997
Most tours depart
from Brisbane
Enjoy on our tours:
- Seeking wild platypus,
kangaroos,
wallabies, koalas, possums, fruitbats,
forest
birds, wetland birds,
reptiles, frogs, butterflies and other
wildlife
- Visiting
conservation-focused wildlife parks
to see
rare and threatened species
-
Seeing a brilliant
Milky Way, far
from city lights
- Viewing a magical
'starry sky' of glow worms
- Local foods and
wines, and flavours from our native forests
- Joining citizen
science and conservation projects
Nature education activities
- 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 them many accommodation
options in the Scenic Rim
- Hire us to conduct activities in
other locatons (talks, excursions, nature games,
fauna surveys)
Tours 
Day tours - bird-watching;
wildlife-viewing; gentle island walk
Multi-day: 3-day
introduction to Australia's wildlife; 3-day birding
for beginners; 3-day seniors special escape to the
mountains; 8-day outback; special citizen science
tours
Custom
tours: 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 region with the third highest biodiversity in
Australia
Many species, large and
small, famous and little-known, including:
kangaroos, wallabies,
koalas, other marsupials, platypus, fruitbats,
lyrebirds,
bowerbirds, cockatoos,
spoonbills, raptors, many other
birds, pythons, monitor
lizards, 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:
Enjoy seeing,
learning about and helping our wildlife!
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