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Photography and Nature in Cairns Botanic Gardens
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11 Ratings
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:
24 hours
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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(11 Ratings)
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Gleng908
Aug 6, 2024
Macro photography - We spent a great couple of hours in the Cairns Botanical Gardens with Bridget of Let’s go Buggin, looking and photographing spiders and other insects, Bridget knew all the best spots and was really helpful with camera settings for macro photography, we did the daytime tour but you can do a night tour and see all the nocturnal creatures!
Throughly recommend these tours!
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257marilynk
Jul 13, 2024
A great way to spend a Saturday Morning in Cairns - It's always great to do a tour with a guide who is both knowledgeable and very enthusiastic and that certainly describes Bridgette and her passion for all those often overlooked Aussie creatures, the "Bugs". Two encounters stood out for me, seeing the Disrupted Beautiful-Masked Bee, which truly lives up to its name when you observe it close up. The second was seeing a web with both the resident large female spider and the so much smaller male making his move very carefully. Although I have seen this on various nature programmes nothing beats experiencing something first hand! A great way to spend a couple of hours on a Saturday morning
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G2288lucarold
Jul 6, 2024
Amazing Nature experience - If you love Nature be sure to go on a Let’s Go Buggin tour. It’s a wonderful experience! We saw so many amazing insects and the information on each species was fascinating.
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238wynner
Jul 5, 2024
A wilderness safari in miniature! - A whole world of amazing and weird wildlife all in the beautiful botanic gardens. There is so much to see when you look a little closer. I can highly recommend Let's Go Buggin for anyone wanting to see how incredible and diverse life is, even in the city.
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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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