Birding & Wildlife Conservation Journey, East Gippsland Victoria

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Duration

4 Days

Group Size

7 Peoples

Activity Level

Easy

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Tour Overview

Discover the wild heart of East Gippsland on this immersive four-day small-group tour. Guided by experts, you’ll explore diverse landscapes including ancient rainforests, rugged mountains, and remote coastlines, all while spotting some of Australia’s most iconic and rare wildlife.

From wild koalas, kangaroos and wallabies to vibrant parrots, honeyeaters, lyrebirds and sea eagles, East Gippsland is a biodiversity hotspot. Along the way, you’ll also participate in meaningful conservation activities, contributing directly to the protection of Australia’s precious ecosystems.

Conservation Project

Conservation component:

This tour includes opportunities to help with the conservation of wildlife and to ensure the natural environment that supports wildlife remains healthy. Your wildlife guide records all species seen and uploads this data to online atlasses for conservation purposes. On this trip, you have the opportunity to remove invasive species, such as sea spurge - Sea Spurge causes environmental problems along many beaches, outcompeting native plants and changing natural patterns of sand movement. It's also a worry for endangered shorebirds that use the open sand for nesting. Gloves will be provided for this activity.

Highlights

Visit both dry and wet mountain forests, visit the famous Snowy River, and walk beside a wilderness creek where the landscape changes dramatically from the sunny, dry slopes to the near-rainforest of the gully
Take a discovery walk through a heathland and along a forest-lined river to its estuary in Australia’s coastal wilderness
Have a unique conservation opportunity to spend time on a beautiful beach, removing invasive plant species from the remote coastlines of Eastern Victoria
Visit the Krowathunkooloong Keeping Place, an informative Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Bairnsdale

Included/Excluded

Included
Excluded

Three night’s accommodation as per itinerary
Experienced wildlife guide(s) throughout days 1–4
Sightseeing as per itinerary by private, air-conditioned charter vehicle
Meals included: daily breakfast, 4 x lunches, 3 x dinners
Goods and Services Tax

Domestic or international airfares
Pre-registration, late check-out or day use at hotels other than specified above
Guide services other than specified
Meals/beverages other than specified
Tips & gratuities
Optional tours/services

Itinerary

Once picked up from Melbourne, you will travel past the RAMSAR wetlands of East Gippsland before taking a ferry to Raymond Island sanctuary, home to wild koalas. Enjoy a forest walk where you may also see echidnas, swamp wallabies, eastern grey kangaroos, and colourful parrots, honeyeaters and seabirds, with a chance to record sightings for conservation.

Explore a warm temperate rainforest in search of topknot pigeons, superb lyrebirds, brown gerygones, black-faced monarchs, platypus and swamp wallabies before continuing to heathlands, rivers and estuaries. Spot white-bellied sea eagles, gang-gang cockatoos, azure kingfishers, turquoise parrots and jacky lizards. Visit a quiet beach and rocky headland overlooking Ninety Mile Beach. Take part in a unique conservation activity: removing invasive plants to restore dune stability and seabird habitats.