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Photography and Nature in Cairns Botanic Gardens

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Edge Hill

Discover hidden wonders in Cairns Botanic Gardens with expert photographer Bridgette. Join a unique, intimate tour and enhance your photography skills.

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Cairns Botanic Gardens - Join renowned macro photographers Bridgette Gower and Ros Peric on an intimate photography tour to explore the fascinating world of insects, spiders, and fungi in the Cairns Botanic Gardens. Discover a magical realm with Bridgette and Ros as your guides on this personalized, specialized tour of the gardens, uncovering hidden treasures. Encounter beautiful bugs, fantastic frogs, a myriad of mushrooms, and amazing arachnids!

With over 2000 hours spent photographing in the gardens, I can help you capture stunning images of these incredible creatures. I have extensive knowledge of where to find the miniature world’s gems and can assist you with camera settings and composition to ensure you get the best shots with your own equipment.

We offer three levels of camera hire: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Please contact us in advance to reserve your camera hire.

Let’s Go Buggin - Morning Tour at 8:30 am

What's Included

Photography Advice
Expert Guide

What's Not Included

Camera Hire Available - reserve on booking, pay on the day. 3 Options available, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Prices $29 - $49.

Additional Information

Join photographer Bridgette on an exclusive small group tour (up to 8 participants) to uncover the hidden world of tiny creatures in the Cairns Botanic Gardens. This unique tour is the only one of its kind in Cairns.

Many of these miniature lifeforms often go unnoticed, but a fascinating world is ready to be explored on this personalized, specialized tour of the gardens and its hidden gems.

Photography assistance is available for those looking to enhance their skills.

Location

Cairns Botanic Gardens

Collins Avenue

Let's Go Buggin Morning & Night Walks - Meet at the entrance to the Cairns Botanic Gardens. A Public Phone box sits metres from the entrance. Look for me wearing the Aussie Macro Photos shirt and a camera!

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Wendysteward99

Jun 9, 2024

A Hidden Gem of a Tour - Such a great tour to do and to experience. Our guide Bridgette was fantastic, she was patient, kind and really took the time to help us explore and discover so many hidden gems in the Cairns Botanic Gardens ( pardon the pun). Her wealth of knowledge was incredible and we got to see so many bugs, insects, spiders and plant life. Bridgette knew where to look and what to look for and really made sure we had a magic experience, she tailored the tour to fit our interests. We hired a camera from her which only added to the experience and she was so great at showing us how to use it and get the best shots. We are grateful for her gentle approach to this tour and her inclusivity of us and our abilities. We could not recommend this tour and her company highly enough. This is an absolute gem and we are so happy we found out about it.

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405bop

Apr 30, 2024

Great experience! Better than expected - My tour with Bridgette was so lovely! I booked the morning walk on a weekday and I was the only one. Having the one on one was amazing, I learned so much about the bugs and macro photography. I rented one of the cameras on the website and it makes beautiful photos! If you like bugs or photography (or both!) I would definitely recommend doing this tour. If I would have had more time in Cairns I would have done the evening walk as well. I got so many great reactions from family and friends on the photos I took, it’s a great feeling haha.

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V7670gfwendyg

Apr 23, 2024

Best of Bugs - What an amazing experience! Very different to any other tourist experience I’ve done. Bridgette really knows her bugs! And she seemed to know where to find them. We found plenty to see and photograph and she helped me get the best out my iPhone camera for some great shots. My friends were really impressed with my photos! Also it’s great to have something to do early in the morning or early evening! Highly recommend!

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W3182mspeters

Apr 19, 2024

Let's go Buggin - I really enjoyed seeing the variety of insects in the Botanic Gardens. Bridgette is very knowledgeable and imparts it well. Great 2 hour tour

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up to 6 guests

1 Adult