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WILDLIFE DAY TRIPS - Atherton Tablelands and Daintree Forest

from Port Douglas and Cairns
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Ringtail Possum (white variety) These superior day tours from Cairns/Port Douglas really do give a high quality wildlife watching experience.  You will have the services of a professional guide and will travel in the company of other wildlife enthusiasts.  It is important to note that most rainforest wildlife is nocturnal and in order to see it, at least part of your viewing should take place during the hours of darkness. Platypus
   
Atherton Tablelands/Mountain Wildlife Experience - Afternoon/Night
Small group tour - maximum 6 participants
Departs Daily by 4WD:
Depart Cairns 2.00 pm .  Returns approx. midnight

Musky Rat Kangaroo An excursion into the Atherton Tablelands above Cairns, this day and night tour enables you to experience wildlife in its natural environment from coastal to mountain rainforest.  The trip visits many different habitats, from lowland to highland tropical rainforest, each housing a remarkable concentration of flora and fauna. This is a great scenic tour and the best tour for seeing the widest range of native plants, mammals, reptiles and birds, all in their natural habitat!  As a day and night tour covering various elevations it enables you to truly experience the full wonder of the rainforest.  Experienced guides talk you through local history, soils, geography, environment, indigenous people, plants and wildlife and help with spotting animals.  Sightings typically include many birds, some endemic, the Musky Rat Kangaroo (the smallest and most primitive kangaroo - pictured abouve), Boyd's Forest Dragon and, at dusk, Australia's famous 'Duck Billed' Platypus.   After dinner you may see Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo (occasionally), Lemuroid, Green and Herbert River Ringtail Possums and many other unusual mammals, insects and amphibians, some of which are found only here.  
The guide's interpretation is adjusted to suit individuals' own knowledge and understanding.  Most of Australia's wildlife is nocturnal and if you confine your wildlife viewing to the daytime, and to the coastal strip only,  you will miss so much.
Included 
Afternoon tea, dinner, light supper, use of spotlights, binoculars and reference material.
Truly Reference 1090
 
Daintree River Birdwatching
Small group tour - maximum 6 participants
Departs Daily - by 4WD
Depart Cairns City 1:30pm.  Depart Northern Beaches 2:00pm  Port Douglas 3:00pm
Return to Port Douglas 11:00pm, Cairns 12:00 midnight.

Cassowary in the Daintree National Park, QLDThis 4WD tour will take you deep into the world heritage listed rainforest of Mount Lewis, a restricted access mountain rainforest area famous for its rare and beautiful plants.
During the afternoon, explore this ancient rainforest and search for wildlife, such as the Golden Bowerbird, the exceptionally shy Cassowary (pictured) and the Musky Rat Kangaroo. After a picnic dinner in the rainforest, begin your night spotlighting walk. Search for unique primitive fauna, such as the Daintree Ringtail Possum.
As you drive back through the forest at night, you should see a selection of nocturnal wildlife, including owls, bandicoots, frogs and pythons.
Included 
Hotel Pick Up/Drop Off Cairns/Port Douglas, afternoon tea, services of guide, picnic dinner, light supper, use of spotlights, binoculars, reference material.

Please Note
This tour is subject to start time changes according to tides and season.  The tour does not run whilst the Daintree River is in severe flood or during tropical downpours!  
Truly Reference 1091
 
Included in both the above day tours ....
~  Pick up from and return to your  etc as specified 
~  Meals as specified
~  Services of guide and all touring
 
Birdwing Butterfy Green Tree Frog Boyd's Forest Dragon Azure Kingfisher Common Ringtail Possum Rufous Owl Lumholtz Tree Kangaroos
Birdwing Butterfly Green Tree Frog Boyd's Forest Dragon Azure Kingfisher Common Ringtail Possum

Rufous Owl

 Lumholtz Tree Kangaroos
 
PRICES: Atherton and Daintree WILDLIFE DAY TRIPS Per person per tour Until 31 March 2012  1 Apr'12 - 31 Mar '13 Truly
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Adult Child Adult Child
Atherton Rainforest Wildlife Experience  A$243 A$229 Request Request 1090
Daintree River Birdwatching A$255 A$238 Request Request 1091
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Child :  4-12 years
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