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Tamborine Rainforest Discovery Walk

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Tamborine Rainforest Discovery Walk is a great place to visit if you want to experience the beautiful nature of Australia. This property is 30 acres surrounded with panoramic views and wide selection of Australia’s fauna and flora.

Rainforest Sky Walk

Sky Walk

Sky Walk by Jiggs

The nature adventure starts from the Rainforest Eco Gallery. From the gallery, visitors begin to trek the elevated 300 meter walkway in the middle of the magnificent rainforest. The bridge is designed with heavy duty steel to ensure the safety of guests wandering the rainforest. It is designed to cater even to guests on wheelchair. The walkway starts with elevated area and progressively descends throughout the journey. Some interesting spots along the trek includes rock pools, waterfalls, and butterfly observation.

The highlight of the Rainforest Walk is the area called Cantilever. It is situated 30 meters over a valley which offer breathtaking views of Australia’s rainforest and creek on a bird’s eye view. This is a 40 meter walk and ends once the guests reach The Centre. It takes approximately one hour to complete the trail.

Related: Fraser Island – Great Barrier Reef

The Center

The Center is the pit stop for guests who completed the skywalk. This is a modern structure with café to offer guests with refreshments after a long walk. Guests can buy a token from souvenir shops and other merchandise shops inside The Centre.

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Sea World – Australia

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Sea World, in Australia’s Gold Coast, is a large theme park with many rides and aquatic shows and exhibits to provide a great family adventure. The weather makes it a wonderful place for a vacation and the park has much to offer those wanting to learn and those seeking excitement. Thrill seekers will enjoy rides like the and the Corkscrew Roller-coaster and Jet Rescue Roller-coaster:

Sea World, Australia, also offers many educational exhibits and aquatic shows that mix entertainment and education. The options include: Shark Bay, penguin encounters (The Little Blue Penguin is actually found on the Southern Coast of Australia: they are the smallest species of penguin growing to 30-33 cm and 1.5 kg.) and dolphin shows:

Gold Coast provides access to many other vacation activities for the whole family including: Underwater World and Dream World: both of which offer more excitement.

Great Barrier Reef

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The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching over an area of 344,000 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia. Approximately two million people visit the Great Barrier Reef each year.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of coral polyps. This reef supports a wide diversity of life, and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. The National Trust Queensland named it a state icon of Queensland.

Sea Turtle, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. The crown-of-thorns starfish (see photo below)) preys on coral polyps. Large outbreaks of these starfish can devastate reefs. In 2000, an outbreak contributed to a loss of 66% of live coral cover on sampled reefs in a study by the RRC (Reefs Research Centre.) Outbreaks are believed to occur in natural cycles, worsened by poor water quality and overfishing of the starfish’s predators.

The Great Barrier Reef hosts 30 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises, including the dwarf minke whale, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, and the humpback whale. Large populations of dugongs live there.

Read more about the Great Barrier Reef.

Photo of the Sea Turtle, Great Barrier Reef, Australia by Sam Harris.

When planing your visit consider taking some time to visit the Daintree Rainforest, which is the oldest rainforest in the world.