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Cairns Aquarium Marine Life Encounter Ticket: Hand-Feed Cownose Rays on Exclusive Backstage Tour
4.8
15 Ratings
Cairns
Experience the ultimate adventure at Cairns Aquarium! Hand-feed Cownose Rays on an exclusive backstage tour, and explore food preparation, research, and quarantine areas.
Experience the ultimate adventure at Cairns Aquarium! Hand-feed Cownose Rays on an exclusive backstage tour, and explore food preparation, research, and quarantine areas.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Cairns Aquarium - Maximize your visit to Cairns Aquarium with a Marine Life Encounter experience! A dedicated wildlife educator guide will warmly welcome you and lead you on an exclusive tour through the Aquarium, including a Behind-the-Scenes look. Discover how the Aquarium nurtures its marine life, and explore the quarantine area and animal food…
- Cairns Aquarium - Maximize your visit to Cairns Aquarium with a Marine Life Encounter experience! A dedicated wildlife educator guide will warmly welcome you and lead you on an exclusive tour through the Aquarium, including a Behind-the-Scenes look. Discover how the Aquarium nurtures its marine life, and explore the quarantine area and animal food preparation room. Delight in a unique hand-feeding session with the Cownose Sting Rays on a specially designed platform, surrounded by the Coral Sea’s predators. This experience is complemented by a scatter feed of the Freshwater Rays and Barramundi. Additionally, enjoy a visit to the Cairns Turtle Hospital and explore the onsite reptile breeding facility.
What's Included
- Scatter feed Barramundi
- Wildlife Educator guided tour of Cairns Aquarium & Behind the Scenes
- Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes entry to Cairns Aquarium
- Handfeed the Cownose Rays
- View onsite reptile breeding facility
- Scatter feed Barramundi
- Wildlife Educator guided tour of Cairns Aquarium & Behind the Scenes
- Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes entry to Cairns Aquarium
- Handfeed the Cownose Rays
- View onsite reptile breeding facility
Additional Information
The Ultimate Way to Experience the Cairns Aquarium
Envision the thrill of hand-feeding Cownose Sting Rays during an exclusive, privately guided Aquarium tour!
This VIP adventure provides a comprehensive tour led by a Wildlife Educator through the Cairns Aquarium, including a behind-the-scenes look at its operations. Guests will gain insights into the…
The Ultimate Way to Experience the Cairns Aquarium
Envision the thrill of hand-feeding Cownose Sting Rays during an exclusive, privately guided Aquarium tour!
This VIP adventure provides a comprehensive tour led by a Wildlife Educator through the Cairns Aquarium, including a behind-the-scenes look at its operations. Guests will gain insights into the fish food preparation area, the cutting-edge plant and equipment that filter millions of liters of water, coral propagation facilities, and a visit to the onsite turtle hospital to learn about the care and rehabilitation of sick and injured sea turtles. Additionally, participants will enjoy a scatter feed to the outback river monsters, hand-feed the gentle Cownose rays, and explore the onsite reptile breeding facility.
Location
Cairns Aquarium
5 Florence Street
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(15 Ratings)
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Julia
Sep 14, 2023
Highly Recommended! - I spent the whole day in the aquarium and really enjoyed it! The creatures were presented in a very appealing and species-appropriate way. I took part in the turtle rescue tour and learned a lot of new things. All in all, it was a great experience that made me think about how we treat our world.
The large aquariums were also very nice: Tunnel and Great Barrier Reef, where I could have spent hours because it was so relaxing to sit there with dim lighting and light background music and watch the different sea creatures. Thank you for this impressive experience!
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Dualfishy
Aug 27, 2023
So much more than I expected! - Such a great experience! So much more than just an aquarium. The turtle rehabilitation was really interesting and the information about the ecosystem in the tropics was also a bonus! Very worthwhile to do - highly recommend.
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Bnls1968
Jul 8, 2023
Amazing experience - The marine life encounter tour was the highlight of our week in Cairns, Sharlee and Jenny we're so passionate about the sea life and provided an amazing tour, which included hand feeding stingrays and turtles. We would highly recommend including a tour such as this with your aquarium visit.
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Jackie82
Jul 5, 2023
Recommend a visit to the rehabilitation turtle Centre - Attending the turtle rehabilitation Centre. This was an an amazing experience to learn more about the turtles found around Cairns and the surrounding islands. We listened to the work being done to sick and injured turtles to get them well enough to return to the wild again and was very heart warming. The staff are volunteers and are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
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Rolfi235
Jan 11, 2023
WOW, a great way to spend a few hours in town - WOW, a great way to spend a few hours in town and a wonderful educational experience. The staff were super helpful and checkout the additional turtle hospital tour where you can get up close to the recovering turtles.
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Greg
Aug 7, 2022
Worth Every Penny - Absolutely brilliant. Well worth the money and possibly the best aquarium we have ever visited. The food was plentiful and well presented, the drinks were not expensive and in general I would highly recommend this trip
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691aurar
Feb 18, 2022
Absolutely worth it - If you are in Cairns, you NEED to visit the aquarium. We did the marine life encounter tour and would highly recommend it if you can afford it - our tour guide Shania did an incredible job, was highly enthusiastic, knowledgeable and great all round, and being able to feed some of the animals was the most amazing experience. If you want to really make sure you see everything, I would actually recommend 3-4 hours rather than 2-3, as we arrived 3 hours before closing time and had to hurry along the last part because they were closing. And besides all of that, their work helping and rehabilitating animals (particularly the turtles) is worth supporting them alone. I couldn't imagine a better experience.
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Pjkcolley
Dec 9, 2021
Excellent - I would highly recommend this experience with the Aquarium.
I have visited there before with my granddaughter on our own however the Marine Life Encounter with the Ecologist Christine and Irelend was exceptional.
We also have great photos for our memories.
They are very Professional, Welcoming, Friendly and ensured we were provided with all the information to provide us with a Great Experience.
Ily was also Fantastic providing very interesting information in regards to the Cow Nose Stingrays, we loved feeding them and meeting Jessica in the Freshwater pool. So Special.
Thank you Christine Ireland and Ily you ensured we had a Wonderful, Memorable day.
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Danascherp
Apr 3, 2022
Really nice experience - Had a last minute ideal to book the lunch in the aquarium, really glad we did. Great experience overall. Setting was really nice, pleasantly surprised with the food - great with good portion sizes. The ambience would probably be nicer for the twilight setting but overall still a lovely time. The aquarium visit was great, beautifully designed and really informative layout. Would recommend and go again.
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T8105
Aug 6, 2022
Don’t eat steak at Aquarium - Tour very good . Unfortunately the worst steak l have ever eaten very tough even though it was cooked medium Rare . Told the staff but they weren’t interested as we got this trip through a voucher l gave up trying to discuss the matter . Had l paid directly l would have taken it further.
The waitress was not interested and after speaking to hotel staff where l was having dinner that night , they told me it was not uncommon. We had eaten at dundees previously at the waterfront the meal was good but expensive.
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