Whale
watching experience is truly unforgettable.
Most of the coastal towns that provide
boat of flight seeing trips offer
beach or cliff top viewing areas.
It is common for migrating whales
to call in at Sydney Harbour during
the winter months, much to the locals'
delight. A specialty of whale tourism,
with a number of local operators offering
boat or flight seeing trips, in addition
to beach or cliff top viewing areas
are made by several coastal towns.
Humpback whales normally stop at
Hervey Bay with their calves after
giving birth. Whale-watch cruises
are offered from Urangan Boat Harbour
while the headland at Byron Bay in
New South Wales -
Australia's most easterly point
- is the perfect place for watching
humpback whale pods on their annual
migration during the months of July
and September. One of the most ideal
spot for watching the southern right
whales are at the cliffs of the Great
Australian Bight in South Australia,
the whales often come within a few
metres of the cliff base. Between
June and October, southern right whale
females winter with their calves at
Logan's Beach in Warrnambool, Victoria,
often swimming close to shore from
where they can be viewed from beach
platforms.
Migrating humpback are also common
during August and September at in
the plunging waters off Ningaloo Reef
near Exmouth in Western Australia,
while whale sharks, the world's largest
fish, can be found between mid-March
and June at same reef. To feed with
their young, these humpback whales
would often stop at Eden, a former
whaling town in New South Wales; it
has become one of the best places
to view humpbacks as they travel to
Antarctica from September to November.
Sydney's
Harbour Bridge is one of the most
breathtaking harbour view in the world.
For decades, painters and riggers
have had one of the finest views of
the harbour and because of the help
of Bridge Drink in the drama of clear
blue waters against the white sails
of the Opera House below you, and
breathe and grasp, clean air. For
decades, the painters and riggers
who maintained Sydney's Harbour Bridge
have had one of the finest views of
the harbour all to themselves. Now,
thanks to BridgeClimb, anyone can
share that spectacular panorama. At
the BridgeClimb, climbers wear a specialised
BridgeSuit, have themselves hooked
to a cable and begin their climb to
the top arch. The stroll across Sydney
Harbour Bridge is one of Sydney's
greatest spectacles. Take the walkway
on the east side of the bridge, accessible
from Cumberland Street in The Rocks
and you'll enjoy a grand view of the
Opera House and of a working harbour
in one of the world's most spectacular
settings, with ferries and high-speed
catamarans heading in and out of Circular
Quay, as well as yachts, pleasure
cruises, water taxis and merchant
ships. Tour options in Australia vary
from the Jet Blast - 35 minutes of
non-stop spins and hair-flattening
speed - to the 80 minute Middle Harbour
Adventure. You may also walk around
From the Opera House, the curve of
Farm Cove to Mrs. Macquarie's Point.
Climb the rise and the Opera
House and Harbour Bridge are framed
by palm trees in a picture-perfect
pose, best when the rising sun burnishes
the 'sails' of the Opera House. It
takes 10 years and 30, 000 litres
of paint to apply one coat to the
Bridge - and the painting never stops.
To test the strength of the Bridge
before its official opening, 96 railway
engines were driven onto it - equal
in weight to 5900 cars.
Among
the most magical wildlife experiences
in Australia is the encounter with
these captivating seabirds. The
tiny fairy penguins are the most
captivating of all. They are seen
each evening on southern beaches as
they waddle ashore in the night. The
little or fairy penguins, which stand
about 30 centimetres tall and weigh
about a kilogram are found along the
coasts of Australia. These little
penguins spend the day at sea and
are often seen when they return to
their sandy burrows in the evening.
To watch little penguins at close
quarters, you need to wear dark clothing
and remain still and they will often
walk right past you. The Penguin Reserve
on Summerland Beach, Phillip Island,
140 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria,
is famous for its dusk viewing of
little penguins as they march across
the beach to their sand dune burrows.
In Bass Strait, which separates Tasmania
from the rest of Australia, both King
and Flinders islands have thriving
colonies of fairy penguins.
Locals in the area are always willing
to point tourists the right direction
on where the penguins gather. Just
42 kilometres from Perth in Western
Australia, the Island Discovery Centre
on Penguin Island gives visitors a
close-up look at little penguins that
have been injured or abandoned by
their mothers. On Kangaroo Island,
South Australia's splendid wildlife
and wilderness domain, little penguins
can be seen each night as they waddle
ashore at Penneshaw, near the island's
eastern tip. A tiny speck in the Southern
Ocean midway between Australia and
Antarctica, Macquarie Island is a
World Heritage area with a population
of about 3.5 million seabirds, most
of them penguins.
Australia
is full of experiences of the ghostly
kind because of its rich and evocative
convict heritage. Historic prisons,
graveyards, caves and convict ruins
provide a colourful backdrop for ghost
tours. Australia has an abundant material
for anyone with a taste of terror.
The spookiest sites around is the
former prison settlement at Port Arthur
rate. In its lantern light tour, spine-chilling
narrative is combined to visitors
trembling. The limestone labyrinth
in Blue
mountains and New South Wales
are full of mystery exploited to the
full in the two hour Saturday night
Ghost Tour. It was once used as a
hideout by bush outlaws. The Sydney
Harbor and the Old Quarantine
Station are filled with haunting memories
where immigrants from diseased ships
were once confined, laying the foundations
for today's Ghost Tours. Built by
convicts between 1851 and 1855, Old
Fremantle Prison is still said to
echo with the clankings of chains
and moanings of its former inmates
- vividly re-created on candlelight
tours. Commencing at Drew Sinton's
Haunted Bookshop Melbourne, Victoria,
this fascinating tour knits together
poltergeists and other paranormal
phenomena found in the back streets
of Melbourne's Chinatown district.
One
of the greatest experiences you'll
have in Australia is to cuddle
a koala. Wildlife parks allow
tourists to hold, photograph, and
feed these cute and fascinating creatures.
Australia's wildlife sets it apart
from the rest of the planet. Animals
like kangaroos
and platypus exist nowhere else on
earth, but in Australia. Lone Pine
Koala Sanctuary is the oldest and
biggest koala sanctuary in Australia.
It the main attraction at the 20 hectare
bushland park south of Brisbane, the130
koalas which can be held and hand-fed.
Located at the centre of Queensland's
Gold Coast, the giant Currumbin Wildlife
Sanctuary has koalas to cuddle and
a vast collection of Australian native
reptiles and birds, all linked by
miniature train. At Cohunu Koala Park,
a natural bushland park just a 30
minute drive from Perth, visitors
can have their photo taken holding
one of 25 resident koalas and hand-feed
many of the free-ranging animals.
It
is an elating experience to swim with
the wild dolphins in their natural
environment.
Swimming with the dolphins as
an organized activity is available
in some states in Australia. Several
operators offer dolphin swims, some
within easy driving distance of capital
cities. Terry Howson from Rockingham
Dolphin Cruises has innovated trusting
relationship with a group of 130 bottlenose
dolphins. It enabled swimmers to experience
close contact with these wonderful
aquatic mammals. Play with dolphins
on the swimming experience of a lifetime
in the pristine waters of Baird Bay
on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula
in South Australia. In Western Australia,
a remote area called Monkey Mia, is
famous as one of the very few places
on earth where dolphins mingle with
humans. A separate section of the
beach allows visitors to swim freely
among the dolphins. In Porth Philip
Bay, Dolphin watching is a major visitor
draw card with about 150 bottlenose
dolphins living in the bay. There
are also tour operators at Sorrento
and Queenscliff offering dolphin-watch
cruises and the opportunity to swim
with the mammals.
Dedicated to dolphin research is
the 'centre' offers a chance to swim
with the bottlenose dolphins of Bunbury's
Koombana Bay. They provide boat tours
that last two hours and masks, snorkels,
fins and wetsuits and are easily accessible
from Perth, near Dolphin Encounters
Mandurah which offers swimming with
wild dolphins. Profits help the local
Dolphin Rescue Service. Swims operate
between November and May for anyone
aged nine or over.
There
are a lot of Aboriginal owned and
operated enterprises that help visitors
explore their dramatically unique
world. Australia's
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples have an enormously
wide and diversed culture that traces
its roots back at least 40,000 years
- one of the longest of any society
on the planet. On the outskirts of
Cairns, the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural
Park is a multi-media experience that
uses live theatre, music and holograms
to create a stimulating depiction
of traditional Aboriginal life. Sydney-based
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal
professional company that stages productions
based on contemporary Aboriginal social
themes, often to critical applause.
Based in the Murray River town of
Wentworth, Harry Nanya Outback Cultural
Tours operates Aboriginal-led tours
of the Willandra Lakes and the Flinders
Ranges, some of Australia's oldest
inhabited sites. Home to seven fascinating
cultural attractions in the Red Centre,
the Alice Springs Cultural Precinct
offers an Aboriginal perspective on
visual arts, natural history, culture
and European settlement.
Owned and operated by the Pwerte
Marnte Marnte Aboriginal Corporation,
Aboriginal Desert Discovery Tours
offers a unique perspective on the
Alice Springs region through its various
tours. Tiwi Tours offers a thrilling
experience - the chance to visit the
Tiwi people of Bathurst and Melville
Islands, north of Darwin, for a day
of Aboriginal culture and hands-on
activities.Uluru (Ayers Rock) is a
potent spiritual force to the Aboriginal
people of Central Australia, and an
Anangu Tour will introduce you to
some of the mystery and magic of Australia's
outback icon.
Check
out quality hotels and accommodation fit
to your taste and budget!
Sydney's
Harbour Bridge is one of the most
breathtaking harbour view in the world.
For decades, painters and riggers
have had one of the finest views of
the harbour and because of the help
of Bridge Drink in the drama of clear
blue waters against the white sails
of the Opera House below you, and
breathe and grasp, clean air. For
decades, the painters and riggers
who maintained Sydney's Harbour Bridge
have had one of the finest views of
the harbour all to themselves. Now,
thanks to BridgeClimb, anyone can
share that spectacular panorama. At
the BridgeClimb, climbers wear a specialised
BridgeSuit, have themselves hooked
to a cable and begin their climb to
the top arch. The stroll across Sydney
Harbour Bridge is one of Sydney's
greatest spectacles. Take the walkway
on the east side of the bridge, accessible
from Cumberland Street in The Rocks
and you'll enjoy a grand view of the
Opera House and of a working harbour
in one of the world's most spectacular
settings, with ferries and high-speed
catamarans heading in and out of Circular
Quay, as well as yachts, pleasure
cruises, water taxis and merchant
ships. Tour options in Australia vary
from the Jet Blast - 35 minutes of
non-stop spins and hair-flattening
speed - to the 80 minute Middle Harbour
Adventure. You may also walk around
From the Opera House, the curve of
Farm Cove to Mrs. Macquarie's Point.
Among
the most magical wildlife experiences
in Australia is the encounter with
these captivating seabirds. The
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It
is an elating experience to swim with
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