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5 Amazing Facts about Eastern Snake-Necked Turtles
Travelling along Australia's Great Ocean Road, you are sure to see lots of wildlife in their natural habitat, including possibly an Eastern snake-necked turtle Chelodina longicollis. Here are 5 amazing facts that will help you enjoy and understand these sweet (but...
Seeing Great Ocean Road wildlife in rainy season
Seeing Great Ocean Road wildlife in June July and August. Australia is a dry country, and rain is brief and light. Often the ‘rainy season’ is the best time to see Australian wildlife. Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road tends to have rain during June, July, August...
Different forests, different koalas
On our Great Ocean Road tour, we usually see koalas every day. But each visit to a wild koala in a forest is different, and exciting. Some wild koalas are seen in dry open forest: furry grey bundles on a huge silver branch, with blue sky as a backdrop. Others live in...
Wild Koala Day: our favourite images of the year
Every year for Wild Koala Day, we compile our favourite wild koala images of the year, taken by our Wildlife Guides and Koala Researchers. This is the best of the best for 2018 - 2019. Please comment to let us know which is your favourite! #1. The featured image...
Koala climbing, part 3: Style
One of the most exciting things we see on Great Ocean Road and Wildlife Journey tours is a koala climbing up or down a tree. They climb rather like we would, if we had the arm strength, the sharp claws and the grippy hands and feet that koalas have. Read about koala...
5 Amazing Facts about the Emu of Outback Australia
by Morwenna Petaia The Emu is one of the iconic birds of the Australian Outback, and there's no better way to see them than on the Mungo Outback Journey. Here are 5 amazing facts about Emus. 1. Emus can go without food for 2 months. Female Emu birds are slightly...
Sand is a travel destination
Sand is a destination. There’s a park called the Perry Sandhills just outside of Wentworth in New South Wales, Australia. Tomato-red sand dunes rise like standing waves above the saltbush plains, then collapse into the Murray River. There is wildlife too, but the main...
Rare reptile sighting on Mungo Outback Journey Australia
by Janine Duffy It’s rare to see wild pythons in southern New South Wales and Victoria. Australia has a lot of pythons, but most species are in the north where it is hot all year round. So, in southern Australia, any python sighting is a very special event, and an...
See the world’s most beautiful cockatoo
Pink Cockatoos: there’s something about them. Actually, there’s 5 things about them that make them very, very special. Its needless to point out that they are gorgeous. Just look at them. John Gould, pioneering ornithologist, called the Pink (Major Mitchell) Cockatoo...
5 Fun Facts about the Gippsland Water Dragon
By Morwenna Petaia East Gippsland is an amazing area full of wildlife. The Wildlife Journey tour will take you to eastern Victoria where you can have an adventure with Gippsland Water Dragons. Before we head off on the Wildlife Journey here are 5 fun facts about the...
Flying-foxes: A must-see in Bairnsdale.
Seeing the Grey-headed Flying-foxes of Bairnsdale, East Gippsland is one the world’s top wildlife spectacles. We parked the car and walked into the forest beside the river. The tree branches joined up over our heads, so looking up was a deep dark green with only...
Bronzewing Pigeons: the art of Powder Down
There is something soft and artistic about Common Bronzewings. They don’t suffer from harsh sunlight like the rest of us – a magical filter is always applied. Wildlife Guide Martin’s photos of a female bronzewing preening show this magnificently. No filter, that is...
An Encounter With Some Beautiful Birds of Australia
Mealtimes are great times for watching beautiful birds and other wildlife in Australia. On the Wildlife Journey we take most of our meals outside in nature for this reason. Travel usually involves moving from place to place, but when we eat, we stop. Wildlife feels...
There’s an Echidna in my playground! 2 rules for respecting wild animals
There are two simple rules for respecting and protecting wild animals: Not Too Close and Never Encircle. Let me explain by telling a true story that happened on my most recent Wildlife Journey: After a long and exciting drive from Melbourne to Raymond Island, East...
About Koala Shaz
Shaz Origin of name: Shaz is just such an Aussie name! Known since: We first saw Shaz in November 2015. She looked very young, maybe just 2 years old. How often seen: Shaz was only seen once in 2015, twice in 2016, not at all in 2017. In 2018 she was seen just two...
5 Amazing Facts: Red-Winged Parrots of northern Australia
5 Amazing Facts about Red-Winged Parrots of northern Australia by Morwenna Petaia Taking a tour of the Wild Top End not only supports eco-tourism in Australia, it allows you to see amazing animals, especially the parrots of Northern Australia. Here are 5 amazing facts...
Wildlife Journey January 2019
Highlights of 4 day Wildlife Journey to East Gippsland, Australia, with Wildlife Guide Martin Maderthaner: All pictures by Martin. Header image is a lovely young Lowlands Copperhead. Reptile species seen: 7 Goannas, Grass Skink, Jacky Lizard, Gippsland Water...
About Koala Smoky
Smoky Origin of name: We first found Smoky on 30 January 2006, while a devastating bushfire was raging in the nearby Brisbane Ranges. The air was full of smoke. We lost a healthy koala community and 27 much-loved koalas to that bushfire. From 1992 to 2006 all our...
I’m a Dingo: don’t call me a dog!
You have to see a wild Dingo in Australia. The Dingo is Australia’s unique, threatened, native wolf. The Top End offers many wildlife highlights, for Aussies and for international travellers. Each night of our 6 day Wild Top End tour, over dinner, the day’s favourite...
The growth of a Rufous Owlet in pictures
A rare photographic record of the growth of a baby Rufous Owl Ninox rufa, from hatching to independence, in Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. Meeting other locals is one of the great things about running wildlife tours in remote and regional Australia. On a recce...
Fascinating Leaves of the Northern Territory Top End
The minute we first set foot in the fascinating Top End we felt different. It was everything we loved about Australia – exaggerated. The Top End...
5 Amazing Facts about Eastern Snake-Necked Turtles
Travelling along Australia's Great Ocean Road, you are sure to see lots of wildlife in their natural habitat, including possibly an Eastern snake-necked turtle Chelodina longicollis. Here are 5 amazing facts that will help you enjoy and understand these sweet (but...
read more
Seeing Great Ocean Road wildlife in rainy season
Seeing Great Ocean Road wildlife in June July and August. Australia is a dry country, and rain is brief and light. Often the ‘rainy season’ is the best time to see Australian wildlife. Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road tends to have rain during June, July, August...
read more
Different forests, different koalas
On our Great Ocean Road tour, we usually see koalas every day. But each visit to a wild koala in a forest is different, and exciting. Some wild koalas are seen in dry open forest: furry grey bundles on a huge silver branch, with blue sky as a backdrop. Others live in...
read more
Wild Koala Day: our favourite images of the year
Every year for Wild Koala Day, we compile our favourite wild koala images of the year, taken by our Wildlife Guides and Koala Researchers. This is the best of the best for 2018 - 2019. Please comment to let us know which is your favourite! #1. The featured image...
read more
Koala climbing, part 3: Style
One of the most exciting things we see on Great Ocean Road and Wildlife Journey tours is a koala climbing up or down a tree. They climb rather like we would, if we had the arm strength, the sharp claws and the grippy hands and feet that koalas have. Read about koala...
read more
5 Amazing Facts about the Emu of Outback Australia
by Morwenna Petaia The Emu is one of the iconic birds of the Australian Outback, and there's no better way to see them than on the Mungo Outback Journey. Here are 5 amazing facts about Emus. 1. Emus can go without food for 2 months. Female Emu birds are slightly...
read more
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