Customized Tours: Ecology & Wildlife
Australian Eco and Wildlife Tours:
We recommended you choose from the following suggestions and we will then create a custom itinerary to suit your travel schedule.
- The Great Barrier Reef and Ancient Daintree Rain Forest, Far North Queensland
- The ‘High Country of the Cattlemen’, Victoria
- Eco and Wilderness Forest Adventure, Tasmania
- Kangaroo Island
All Fully Escorted Tours Australia
Custom Itinerary – The Great Barrier Reef
The world’s largest eco-system, the size of Italy - the superstar of the Underwater World -
comprising deep canyons of massive mountain coral clusters - teeming with colourful fish of all shapes and sizes. The reef is home to 1,500 species of fish, 400 species of corals and 4,000 species of mollusks.
The Clown Fish and film star ‘Nemo’ lives here
Custom Reef Tours
On your leisure tour – transfers from your hotel to the departure pier of Port Douglas. Journey on a high-speed Catamaran with talks by a marine biologist. Leisure snorkeling to see underwater coral and fish. A personalized. Leisure tour.
Fully Escorted Tours Australia
Customized Tour Options:
- Custom Boat Charter Tours
- Custom Helicopter Tours
Quotes from Happy Customers:
‘I’ve always wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef – great tour, great value, great day
and our personalized itinerary included it all!’
The ‘Great ‘Taylor Family, Buffalo, USA
‘I still can’t believe the masses of colour and fish in those deep canyons. Snorkeling was awesome - almost an out of body experience.’
Jules Alphonso, Granada, Spain
Custom Itinerary – Daintree Rain Forest, Far North Queensland
How to get There:
Fly to Cairns Airport from any Australian Capital City
Our personalized tours of the Daintree Forest depart from Cairns or Port Douglas in a private tour vehicle – fully escorted tour. The Daintree Rainforest, located two hours north of Cairns - where ‘the rainforest meets the reef’. A leisure tour to experience an ancient rain forest wilderness.
Daintree Rain Forest – fresh, lush
green and peaceful
Cape Tribulation - Isolated beaches where
yours will be the only footprints in the sand
Our personalized tours include a leisure river cruise and a swim in fresh water pool right in the heart of the rainforest.
Quotes from Happy Customers:
‘The walk into the rainforest and swim in that rock pool was for us an ultimate experience.
Our personalized tour remains memorable. Thank you, we can highly recommend Meridian
Tours!’
Jack Turnley, UK
‘As a nature lover, this was perfect.’
Greg Dyson, Sussex UK
‘An inspiring place. Mother Nature is a wonder-woman. I have never experienced wilderness like this. It makes me sad that my home country is so lacks this solitude. ’
Kristina and Dieter Felden, Switzerland
Custom Itinerary – High Country of the Cattlemen
Leisure Tours, Victoria
This a great Aussie experience, a personalized and fully escorted tour, s traveling up the mountain, to the summit grass meadows and area comprising granite rocks, 60 million years old. These are the oldest rocks on the oldest continent on earth. A ‘High Country’ gourmet smorgasbord picnic lunch is served and the menu personalized to cater for your special interests.

Visit an old cattleman’s hut
Quote from Happy Customers:
‘We enjoyed our High Country Smorgasbord and campfire. Kindly find attached the pics we took of cooking our steaks on sticks over the fire – a unique experience for us. Kindly pass on our thanks to Craig, for teaching us!’
Joseph and Josie Borg, Frankfurt
‘An interesting experience and back in New York I remember the quiet that we experienced. Could you bottle that and send it over?’
Jimmy Munroe, New York
Custom Itinerary – Wilderness Adventure, Tasmania
Eco Wilderness Adventure – meet our naturalist field guide who will escort you into the tall timber forest of Tasmania’s north eastern rugged mountain region to see waterfalls and nature.

Tasmanian Wilderness Rainforests -
trees so tall you can’t see the tops
Quote from Happy Customers:
‘This is the prettiest place on earth. Your field guide cooked us the best steak in the bush!
We enjoyed the combination of self-drive and meeting escorts along the way to show us the hidden treasures. Thank you for your attention to detail. Everything was seamless.’
Lewiki and Koether, Passengers, Star Princess
‘I envy people living here. What a haven. France is beautiful but this little island has real beauty that surpasses all else. And its people are beautiful too. Such plenitude!’
Maurice and Edith Le Masson, Paris, France
‘We loved our adventure into the rugged bushland and the tall trees were splendid.
We enjoyed our ‘bush tucker’ that your field guide cooked. It was truly a wilderness adventure and personalized to suit us.'
Grace and Ken Harman, Chicago, USA
Custom Itinerary – Kangaroo Island

Due to its isolation, Kangaroo Island has
a rich flora and fauna
Located one hour south of Adelaide, the island is of outstanding natural beauty. Due to its isolation, it comprises a rich, diverse flora and fauna seldom found elsewhere. Naturally fresh seafood features prominently on the menus of the Island's many eating places. King George Whiting is one of the most popular and frequently requested dishes.
Quote from Happy Customers:
‘As General Custer said, I WILL return!’
John and Mary Summers, Chicago, USA
‘Our customized tour of Kangaroo Island was perfect. It is such a peaceful and beautiful place. Thank you Meridian Tours.‘
John and Jane Beach, Liverpool, UK
