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The Atherton Tablelands

The Atherton Tablelands is located behind Cairns and Kuranda and is diverse in it's beauty and it's produce.  Spectacular waterfalls in the Southern Tablelands are the main attraction but the smaller towns cannot be missed either. The native wildlife that can be found throughout the Tablelands, still in their native habitats is something that should be experienced.

The climate on The Atherton Tablelands is milder than in Cairns so it's a perfect place to visit in the warm, summer months

Make sure on these tours to the waterfalls that you take your swimsuit as there will be ample times to cool off in the cool mountain water.   

For a map of the Atherton Tablelands area, please see Maps


Bird & Wildlife Spotting

Operating out of Cairns and Port Douglas for many years and the guides on these tours are very experienced and professional.  They are a great way to spend a half a day and most of the night after a morning sleeping in or lazing around a pool.

Day & Night Rainforest & Wildlife Tour

This tour travels up to the Atherton Tablelands just behind Kuranda and you will do some day and night wildlife spotting.  You will visit lowland and highland tropical rainforest with lots of different animals and plants for you to observe.  You will learn about history, soils, geography, environment, indigenous people and also the wildlife and plant species. Visits the Crater Lakes & Cathedral Fig Tree.

Tour departs Cairns at 2pm and returns at midnight.  Group size max 10.

Night Rainforest & Wildlife Tour

The tour starts with a drive up the Gilles Range to the highland rainforests of the Atherton tablelands where you can view rare nocturnal native animals such as kangaroos, platypus, pythons, possums etc some of which cannot survive in zoos. Tour is led by some of Australia's leading rainforest wildlife guides.

The tour departs at 6 pm and returns at around midnight   Group size max 20

Bird Watching tours are also available.  If interested in one of these please email us and let us know.  We can also organise private charters for many things such as Bush walking, Aboriginal Cultural tours, 4WDing, Outback, Sightseeing.

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tree kangaroo

Paradise Kingfisher

Chestnut-breasted Mannikin

 

 

 

 

 
Prices For 2005/6
Day & Night Rainforest & Wildlife Tour- includes transfers, use of spotting equipment and books, refreshments and a restaurant dinner.  Also includes all park fees. (WAW1)

$165.00 pa / $154 pc ex Cairns

$175.00 pa / $165.00 pc ex Beaches

Night Rainforest & Wildlife Tour- includes transfers, use of spotting equipment and books, a restaurant evening meal & supper Also includes all park fees. (WAW3)

$99.00 pa / $89.00 pc ex Cairns

$110.00 pa / $99.00 pc ex Beaches


Waterfalls , Wildlife & Paronella Park On The Tablelands

This Tablelands tour includes more of the Atherton Tablelands than any other tour that we have been on. It's good for all ages and you can be as active or as inactive as you like .
You will visit two volcanic crater lakes, three waterfalls, National Parks, Paronella Park (National Trust listed gardens and beautiful old castle ruins), Windy Hill ( an amazing new Wind Farm) and the famous Atherton Tablelands Curtain Fig Tree. There are two guided rainforest walks and a very filling lunch at Mungalli Falls. There is also a visit to the Wind farm on the Tablelands, a new addition to the tour.

Its a small bus and this provides for a very personalised tour, with guides well-trained in their knowledge of the Tablelands. They will even tell you about the Aboriginal legend associated with the Babinda Boulders, a beautiful little swimming hole you visit on the way home.
This is a great tour and we know you would come back happy and relaxed from this day tour (and you also get a little bit of a sleep in as the tour doesn't depart until about 8.30 am!).

 

Prices for 2005/6

Adult Pensioner Child 
Waterfalls Tour includes morning Devonshire tea, 1st class lunch, all transfers

$114.00

$112.00

$84.00


Forest, Falls & Fun Tour

O.K., with a guy calling himself Uncle Brian, you've got to realise that this is a tour with a difference. 
It's an 8.30 am start, heading straight down to the Babinda Boulders, a place steeped in aboriginal history. It's a really interesting story, as a lot of theDoesn't this look like fun.  Uncle Brian knows how to give a give time! aboriginal legends are, so make a point to have a listen. There's a walk through the rainforest and a bit of a biology lesson with a difference, then it's a swim back upstream in the nice (?) cold mountain water.
Your next stop is Josephine Falls for lunch. There's a really cool natural rock waterslide here, heaps of fun, and a very popular swimming hole with the locals.
Millaa Millaa Falls is the next one the list, with a swim before heading to the side of a river to see if you can see any of the elusive Platypus. You can't always be guaranteed of seeing one, but if you do, you'll come to realise that they are  one of the strangest looking creatures in the world!
Josephine Falls You get to Lake Eacham in time to watch the light fade from the sky, and have plenty of time to lay back and soak up the atmosphere before heading off for a dinner by candlelight.
The trip back down the Gilles Range is a lot of fun, with Uncle Brian keeping you amused the whole way. It's a fantastic day, with a relaxed atmosphere and no rushing around, with Gus The Bus getting you back home by 8.30 pm.

Tour departs Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat only.

For a clients testimonial of Uncle Brian's trip click here.

Price For 2005/6

Adult Child

Uncle Brian's

$95.00

$55.00


 

 

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