Australia - Spotlighting in Yungaburra with Alan Gillanders
Alan Gillanders from Alan's Wildlife Tours led the spotlighting in Yungaburra tour
Atherton Tablelands
A tour of the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia guided by Alan Gillanders. Wildlife featured includes golden bowerbird, rock wallabies, possums, Lumholtz tree kangaroo, and platypus
Male Double-eyed fig parrot in Yungaburra NQ
A male Double-eyed fig parrot subspecies macleayana observed on tour with Alan's Wildlife Tours in Yungaburra a few days ago! . Such a beautiful little moment watching Australia's smallest parrot feeding on fig seeds for their protein - along with his lady friends.
Wait-A-While Rainforest Tours Cairns
Wait-A-While Rainforest Tours Cairns have been hosting small personal wildlife spotting and nocturnal spotlighting tours into the world's oldest continuously surviving rainforest near Cairns for more than 30 years.Wait-A-While Rainforest Tours Cairns are online here -
Australia - Part 1 Day Trips from Yungaburra Week 3
Australia - Part 1 Day Trips from Yungaburra Queensland Australia
Nocturnal Tour
Things get a bit wild around here at night! Step inside the Mulga Walk enclosure for an evening of adventure and discovery spotlighting rare and endangered animals of the desert.
The Crater - Mount Hypipamee
A jump of 58 meters deep in the hole in the rock.
Australian Water Rat, Yungaburra, Australia
Platypus at Petersen's Creek, Yungaburra
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a monotreme - an egg-laying mammal - found only in eastern Australia. When the first specimen arrived in Britain in 1798, people thought it was a hoax, and even now, it still strikes people as a very strange creature! A platypus can stay underwater for up to 11 minutes, but usually only dives for a minute or two when foraging for small animals (like shrimp, fish, or frogs) underwater. It closes its eyes and ears and hunts by feel, sensing electrical pulses through its broad flat bill. They need permanent freshwater lakes, creeks or dams. Dawn and dusk are usually the best times to look for this mainly nocturnal animal, but this one treated us to a rare display in the middle of the day.