Aussie Macro Photos

$68

See all the little things! Small group nature & photography tour to see the miniature world of Insects & Spiders in tropical paradise, the Cairns Botanic Gardens.

We will share with you several bug-hubs that hides the most elusive beauties! See and photograph a huge variety of weird and wonderful insects, a myriad of spiders, fungi and a host of many other tiny creatures that are hidden in the undergrowth.

Join Tour Guides & Photographers Bridgette & Ros for a personalised, highly specified tour of the gardens and the treasures waiting to be discovered.

The tour will introduce you to Australia’s largest butterfly and caterpillar, the Cairns Birdwing. You will also see many other colourful insects and spiders including Australia’s first spider, the Northern Jewelled Orbweaver and a recently discovered Lacebug nicknamed ‘The Midgey Bridgey’.

If you are bringing your own camera, we can help you with your camera settings and composition ideas, techniques, and suggestions for capturing amazing images.

Photography equipment is not required, however we have an excellent selection of specialised Macro Photography equipment available for hire for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. Tour participants can also capture amazing shots and video using a smartphone.

Disabled Access

$68

The magic of the rainforest comes to life after dark and welcomes you with a chorus of frog croaks and the sparkling of a million eyeshines.

A walking tour especially for nature enthusiasts and photographers in the heart of Cairns. Every Night Walk is different. Being in nature offers an exciting and unpredictable experience full of surprises.

The tour will introduce you White-lipped tree frogs, Dwarf Tree Frogs, and many other species of amphibians. For those who like spiders, there are many that can be seen on the tour such as Net-casting spiders, Mirror-ball Spiders, huge Orb-weavers, and Huntsmans.

People not fond of spiders will be relieved to know that they are weaving their webs or sitting on tree trunks. We see an abundance of nocturnal insects like moths, crickets, beetles and stick insects.

Other animals that can be seen include Micro-bats, Papuan Frogmouths, Striped Possums, Speckled Flying Foxes, Pythons, Bandicoots, Pademelons and Echidnas. The tours offer a great opportunity for photographers who would love to just ‘go to’ that spot to capture amazing photographs of some nocturnal critters.

We offer ideas, techniques, and suggestions for capturing amazing images of the animals we encounter.

Disabled Access

$68

The Wet Tropics of Queensland has a huge variety of fungi species! We are fortunate to have consistent mushrooms such as Stinkhorns (Phallus species), Polypores, Fans, Brackets, Boletes, Ascomycetes (zombies), Corals, Birdnest fungi and Slimemolds all waiting to be seen and photographed. This is the only specialised mushroom and fungi photography walking tour in Australia.

Bridgette has spent hundreds of hours in the gardens learning the many locations and cycles of the fungi kingdom. Her huge collection of photographs is a testament to the vast amount of fungi on offer for you to capture some photographs of your own. Check out her Mushroom-dedicated Instagram Gallery at @mushroom_adventure100

If you are bringing your own camera, we can help you with your camera settings and composition ideas, techniques, and suggestions for capturing amazing images of the mushrooms that we encounter.

The tour will be a leisurely stroll through the gardens taking time to see and photograph these beautiful lifeforms.

Photography equipment is not required, however we do offer specialised macro photography equipment for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. Tour participants can also capture amazing shots using a smartphone.

Disabled Access