Come Join the Adventure
Kookaburra Tours & Charters is a locally owned and operated tour business based in Townsville, Tropical North Queensland. Your guide, Tony O’Connor has lived and worked in the region all of his life and provides expert commentary on topics including local history, flora and fauna, indigenous culture and life in the tropics. Areas covered range from world heritage listed wet tropics rainforests to Charters Towers and the outback.
Tours are suited to all ages
Ride in our new air-conditioned deluxe coach
Tour groups up to 24 people
Six day tour packages are available now
Enjoy one of our many day tours
Kookaburra Tours & Charters for a journey of discovery to experience our life in the tropics and to meet many of the wonderful characters that call North Queensland home.
Kookaburra Tours & Charters is a locally owned and operated tour business based in Townsville, Tropical North Queensland. Your guide, Tony O’Connor has lived and worked in the region all of his life and provides expert commentary on topics including local history, flora and fauna, indigenous culture and life in the tropics. Areas covered range from world heritage listed wet tropics rainforests to Charters Towers and the outback.
Tours are suited to all ages
Ride in our new air-conditioned deluxe coach
Tour groups up to 24 people
Six day tour packages are available now
Enjoy one of our many day tours
Kookaburra Tours & Charters for a journey of discovery to experience our life in the tropics and to meet many of the wonderful characters that call North Queensland home.
Whether you are just here for a quick visit or you would like to plan out your stay here with us in Townsville, this is made for you. It is an entertaining and informative tour that will introduce you to our Life in the Tropics.
• The Strand
• Riverway
• Castle Hill Lookouts
• Kissing Point
• Historic Buildings
• Local attractions
Departs: 8.00am Returns 11.00am
• The Strand
• Riverway
• Castle Hill Lookouts
• Kissing Point
• Historic Buildings
• Local attractions
Departs: 8.00am Returns 11.00am
The entrance point to Townsville’s Highlands is a comfortable forty minutes drive west of the city climbing to 400 metres above sea level onto the western ranges.
Townsville Highlands Tunnel Tour is a unique Eco Experience, one that offers a diverse range of attractions including Aboriginal culture, pioneering history and the construction of the Greenvale Rail Corridor with tunnels cut through solid granite (two of which are over 400 metres in length). Spectacular vistas across to Cleveland Bay combined with the surrounding flora achieve an invigorating environment, here you see the views and smell the trees.
The tour also includes a cuppa at “Kookaburra Bush Café” in the Australian Bush.
Departs 1.00pm with an estimated 5.30pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Townsville Highlands Tunnel Tour is a unique Eco Experience, one that offers a diverse range of attractions including Aboriginal culture, pioneering history and the construction of the Greenvale Rail Corridor with tunnels cut through solid granite (two of which are over 400 metres in length). Spectacular vistas across to Cleveland Bay combined with the surrounding flora achieve an invigorating environment, here you see the views and smell the trees.
The tour also includes a cuppa at “Kookaburra Bush Café” in the Australian Bush.
Departs 1.00pm with an estimated 5.30pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Wow! Mind-blowing! Awesome! These are just a few words expressed by visitors on first seeing Wallaman Falls – the highest sheer drop waterfall in the southern hemisphere (over 300 meters in height).
Our first stop will be at the multi award winning historic Noorla Heritage Resort within the quaint sugar town of Ingham.
Then, enter a Time Capsule of Evolution to view the falls – the World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics Rainforest of North Queensland is the oldest continual surviving rainforest on earth.
The day also includes a visit to Tyto Wetlands Interpretive Centre a part of Australia’s largest urban wetlands rehabilitation project.
Wallaman Falls - one of Australia’s best-kept secrets!
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.30pm arrival time back in Townsville. Your tour includes morning tea and lunch.
Our first stop will be at the multi award winning historic Noorla Heritage Resort within the quaint sugar town of Ingham.
Then, enter a Time Capsule of Evolution to view the falls – the World Heritage Listed Wet Tropics Rainforest of North Queensland is the oldest continual surviving rainforest on earth.
The day also includes a visit to Tyto Wetlands Interpretive Centre a part of Australia’s largest urban wetlands rehabilitation project.
Wallaman Falls - one of Australia’s best-kept secrets!
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.30pm arrival time back in Townsville. Your tour includes morning tea and lunch.
Charters Towers is renowned for its heritage and gold mining history, at the height if the 1880’s it was the second largest city in Queensland and was referred to as “The World”.
The city is a living museum that preserves an amazing story 137 years old. Some of the attractions include:
• The Stock Exchange Arcade built in 1888
• Ay Ot Lookout House built in the 1890’s
• Venus Battery – Australia’s largest surviving battery relic, constructed in 1872
• Towers Hill Lookout
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.00pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Your tour includes morning tea, lunch and entry to attractions.
The city is a living museum that preserves an amazing story 137 years old. Some of the attractions include:
• The Stock Exchange Arcade built in 1888
• Ay Ot Lookout House built in the 1890’s
• Venus Battery – Australia’s largest surviving battery relic, constructed in 1872
• Towers Hill Lookout
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.00pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Your tour includes morning tea, lunch and entry to attractions.
Step off the bus into a different world – an ancient rainforest, with crystal clear mountain streams and cascading waterfalls.
This is a day tour through to the rainforest village of Paluma, within the Mount Spec National Park.
Your day takes in an amazing diversity of environments from the Dry Open Savannah country around Townsville through a part of the oldest continual surviving rainforest in the world to the rugged terrain of the western side of the Paluma Range.
We will visit Hidden Valley Cabins - Australia’s first carbon neutral accommodation and tour company, taking in a tour through their solar plant that generates all of the resort’s electricity.
The day is rich with scenery, experiences and great local characters!
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.00pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Your tour includes morning tea and lunch.
This is a day tour through to the rainforest village of Paluma, within the Mount Spec National Park.
Your day takes in an amazing diversity of environments from the Dry Open Savannah country around Townsville through a part of the oldest continual surviving rainforest in the world to the rugged terrain of the western side of the Paluma Range.
We will visit Hidden Valley Cabins - Australia’s first carbon neutral accommodation and tour company, taking in a tour through their solar plant that generates all of the resort’s electricity.
The day is rich with scenery, experiences and great local characters!
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.00pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Your tour includes morning tea and lunch.
The Nywaigi people are the Traditional owners of woodland and rainforest country around the Ingham district. As owners of Mungalla Cattle Station they maintain strong connections to their land. Listen to Dream Time Stories and learn about bush medicine, bush tucker and the making of Aboriginal stone tools.
This is an amazing story of an ancient culture that dates back thousands of years.
Tour the Mungalla property - the first cattle station in the Herbert River district settled by James Cassidy in 1882. The homestead houses the exhibition Captive Lives: Looking for Tambo and his Companions (at one stage a travelling exhibition around Australia).
This is a fascinating exhibit of the story of Aboriginal people from Mungalla and surrounding areas being exploited in 19th century sideshows.
The day also includes a visit to Tyto Wetlands Interpretive Centre, a part of Australia’s largest urban wetlands rehabilitation project.
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.00pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Your tour includes morning tea and lunch.
This is an amazing story of an ancient culture that dates back thousands of years.
Tour the Mungalla property - the first cattle station in the Herbert River district settled by James Cassidy in 1882. The homestead houses the exhibition Captive Lives: Looking for Tambo and his Companions (at one stage a travelling exhibition around Australia).
This is a fascinating exhibit of the story of Aboriginal people from Mungalla and surrounding areas being exploited in 19th century sideshows.
The day also includes a visit to Tyto Wetlands Interpretive Centre, a part of Australia’s largest urban wetlands rehabilitation project.
Departs 8.00am with an estimated 5.00pm arrival time back in Townsville.
Your tour includes morning tea and lunch.
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