See Australia's unique animals and birds in their natural environment on a rainforest wildlife-spotting tour in the Atherton Tablelands. Led by an expert nature guide, your small-group nocturnal tour visits a number of locations including lush tropical rainforest and a volcanic crater lake. See tree kangaroos, lizards and musky rat kangaroo by day, and search for platypus at dusk. Enjoy afternoon tea at Lake Barrine and dinner at a country restaurant, then go spotlighting for possum, bandicoots, owls, bats and tree kangaroos by starlight on this fascinating nocturnal wildlife tour.
Posted By : CindyThurmond
A truly memorable experience! Your guide is personable and shares his wide knowledge of the flora, fauna and geography of Australia in an understandable and interesting manner. We also enjoyed the included pub dinner!
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Posted On : 2023-12-04 21:46:49 
Posted By : Ipshita_G
Great experience and I just loved Paul our guide. He was so invested and knowledgable. We saw lots of animals. Great experience.
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Posted On : 2023-12-01 03:27:20
Posted By : Catherine_F
I think this was the highlight of my whole Australia trip! We saw a wild platypus and tree kangaroo, which I didn’t even know existed! The dinner was great (and included in the cost), and the guide was fun and knowledgeable. Doing the tour at night is better too. Far fewer people and lots of animals!
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Posted On : 2023-11-17 14:16:08
Posted By : sjc20172018
Paul is very knowledgeable about the animals and we saw plenty. His manner however made me feel rather uncomfortable at times.
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Posted On : 2023-11-16 15:57:51 
Posted By : GrumpyandtheOldLady
Paul picked us up from our hotel in Cairns at the start of our tour. The tour bus was at capacity by the time we left Cairns. Make sure to have good walking shoes or hiking boots and rain gear. We saw beautiful countryside, lovely forest, a tree kangaroo, forest dragons, a platypus (yay!) flying fox, and many other animals. We even met a woman who was with the local bat rescue, looking for bats in distress. She had found one and was looking for others. It was great to see the wild sky puppy population was being actively monitored by the rescue and ones in need of help were going to get it. During the night hike we saw even more animals, the cathedral fig tree, and did some stargazing. Dinner was between the two hikes in a local restaurant. If you have mobility issues, you will get tired/sore and possibly need to sit for a bit, as some of the people on the tour did, as the rest of us continued walking up and down, back and forth on the river trail, looking for the elusive platypus. Just keep that in mind if you are thinking about booking. The website says it is an easy walk but a few people truly struggled with it. We were continually on the move trying to find the platypus and passed other groups that waited in a chosen area for up to 40 minutes before they saw a platypus that came to them. Paul said that he believed constantly moving from one area to another created a better chance at finding one. We spent a long time without seeing one and then left for dinner. After dinner, we made another attempt and finally, it was our chance to observe the little cutie after the sun had set. This is a decent tour but can be difficult for some.
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Posted On : 2023-11-14 01:40:01
Posted By : Liana_Z
Paul was an excellent tour guide of the rainforest with extensive knowledge of all the animals living there. The day was organized very well! It started with driving into a local area to show us how to properly use the binoculars provided and checked out many wallabies in the area. We then drove up a mountain with a crazy winding road and a quick stop at a lookout, then into the tablelands with a stop for some tea and biscuits and then a fascinating walk through the rainforest. We saw the Boyd’s forest dragon and a bowerbird along with some unique bird call identifications. We then drove to a great spot around Yungaburra where Paul succeeded in finding platypus with his knowledge of how to locate them! We also saw turtles, wallabies, flying foxes and a kookaberra. Afterwards we had dinner at a local pub where you could choose from many food options; our meal was delicious and filling! After that as the sun was going down, we returned to the platypus spot and had an amazing viewing of micro bats and flying foxes. They flew over us while standing on a rope bridge and we listened to the loudest bug (cicada) in the world! Coming up next was our favourite part when we drove to a quiet road and walked down while Paul used his eagle eyes and ears to look for nocturnal wildlife and would shine a brighter light on it when he spotted anything. During this part we spotted possums and a white tailed rat and heard sooty owls which made hilarious scream-like noises. He also spotted the elusive echidna! The tour was finished with a boardwalk tour deeper in the rainforest where we were shown the incredible curtain fig tree that was really neat to see at night! Because of the unusual dryness during the start of the wet season, Paul told us it was more quiet than usual- but even so, we had a great time, learned a lot and was truly an experience of a lifetime! We would recommend bringing water as we forgot to bring any and only had some at dinner. My mom and I aren’t in Australia for long, but we highly recommend this if you are staying in the area!
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Posted On : 2023-11-05 16:58:10
Posted By : T5767JVleslies
A true wildlife tour. You will Walk about 5 miles over the entire trip we saw platypus wallabies lizards The wildlife only comes out after dark so day tours that promise wild life can’t deliver. We also saw flying foxes leave the trees a bandicoots tree possums. The platypus was the highlight she swam right up to our bank. You will never see the animals without a guide who cares as much as Paul.
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Posted On : 2023-11-03 19:57:53
Posted By : H873RUsaskiav
Amazing tour! Really felt like an authentic experience and we saw some incredible wildlife. Paul was super knowledgeable and funny, a very valuable skillset for a guide! Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to experience Cairns of the regular paths
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Posted On : 2023-10-18 18:48:33
Posted By : Liz F
A different way to see the Atherton tablelands and it’s animals, possums, pythons, lizards, birds, bandicoots and a variety of Roos, we were lucky enough to spot a tree kangaroo, and of course the sweet platypus worked hard to entertain us and with the benefit of the night sky and stars - perfect!
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Posted On : 2023-10-11 19:31:51
Posted By : Giorgio_T
The best part was animal search in the night, our guide was very good in finding them. Also looking to stars in the dark night.
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Posted On : 2023-10-08 07:36:02
