2016 Whale Watching Season

Top 10 Family Adventures on Moreton Island: Sun, Sand, and Smiles!

25 Oct 2024

By Bernie O'Keefe

Pack your bags, slather on the sunscreen, and get ready for an epic Moreton Island family getaway.

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Tangalooma's Newest Dolphin Calf Officially Named Eclipse

01 Oct 2024

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Born in June 2024 to Silhouette, one of the resort's resident dolphins, Eclipse has quickly become a favourite among guests and staff.

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New Addition to Tangalooma's Dolphin Family

20 Jun 2024

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Tangalooma Island Resort is delighted to announce the exciting arrival of a new baby dolphin to its pod of wild dolphins that visit the Resort each night at sunset.

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Jetstar’s Epic Tangalooma Adventure!

15 Jun 2023

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Tangalooma had the pleasure of hosting some talented content creators from our favourite next-door neighbour, New Zealand.

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Harnessing the Power of Dolphin Love: Transforming Passion into Positive Impact

06 Jun 2023

By Tangalooma Island Resort

With a steadfast commitment to responsible wildlife interaction and best practices, Tangalooma Island Resort takes immense pride in its renowned Wild Dolphin Feeding program.

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Operation Comet

27 Jan 2023

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Earlier this month, Sea World joined Tangalooma’s Eco Rangers to help rescue Comet, one of our local bottlenose dolphins.

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Brisbane's Best Whale Watching

25 Jul 2022

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Whale Watching is back underway in Brisbane, and it’s been an absolute bumper of a season so far, with almost 200 humpback whales sighted in just the first month of our 2022 season!

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Tinkerbell's Gift

02 Sep 2020

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Imagine everyone’s excitement when just recently, one of the dolphins gave chase to a large eel before catching it right in front of their eyes!

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Tangalooma - More accessible than ever

17 Dec 2019

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Tangalooma is now more accessible than ever with the newest submersible wheelchair that can be used during the dolphin feed.

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Baby Dolphin Announcement

18 Jul 2019

By Tangalooma Island Resort

This week local favourite Tinkerbell delighted Tangalooma Eco Rangers and guests by introducing her new baby calf to the crowd!

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3 Month Baby Dolphin Update

06 Mar 2019

By Eco Ranger Sue

Comet who is almost 3 months old  is growing into a very lively, cheeky  little calf.   He has almost doubled his size in this time and  is now just over 100 cm in length.   

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Unexpected baby dolphin arrival

14 Jan 2019

By Tangalooma Island Resort

One of Tangalooma Island Resort’s favourite wild dolphins, Silhouette, gave crowds a wonderful surprise during the wild dolphin feeding session last night, as she debuted her day-old newborn calf.

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Sea World Rescue Training Day

06 Jun 2018

By Eco Ranger Sue

Last week the SeaWorld Rescue and Rehabilitation team organised  a refresher training day at Tangalooma for the National Park Rangers and the Tangalooma Eco Rangers.

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Whales and Dolphins playing together

31 Aug 2017

By Eco Ranger Tessa

Today's whale watch cruise was a thrilling one! It was incredible to witness both Humpback whales and Common dolphins in the waters surrounding the Tangalooma Jet!

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The whales seem to be checking us out on today's cruise

27 Aug 2017

By Eco Ranger Tessa

One of the best whale watches of the season occurred today! The pristine weather conditions complimented the very curious whales in Moreton Bay Marine Park.

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Dolphin Communication Research

24 Aug 2017

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Marine Education and Conservation Centre staff have documented the behaviours and interactions of wild bottlenose dolphins that visit the shores of the resort each evening.

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Nari's Journey

01 Jul 2017

By Tangalooma Island Resort

It’s hard to believe that today, many guests get the chance to meet 20 year old wild bottlenose dolphin Nari, completely unaware of his incredible escape from the jaws of a 3 metre bull shark.

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Cruze Doubles the dose of gifts

27 Apr 2017

By Tangalooma Island Resort

When you think of the typical 'gift', a foul smelling Sea Mullet probably isn't at the top of your wish list! But for Eco Ranger Paul, this is exactly what he received on the 6th of April!

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#TBT That Time Roger Federer Aced Dolphin Feeding

22 Feb 2017

By Tangalooma Island Resort

With the summer of tennis having just wrapped up for 2017 we thought we best take a trip down memory lane to relive the moment Roger Federer visited Tangalooma.

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The Gift of Giving

12 Dec 2016

By Tangalooma Island Resort

With the Christmas spirit in full effect, we thought it best we share a rather peculiar story on the gift of giving. This time, involving our favourite dolphin visitors!

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Special Arrival

24 Nov 2016

By Tangalooma Island Resort

One of Tangalooma's most famous wild dolphins gave crowds a wonderful surprise during a wild dolphin feeding session recently, with the arrival of her long-awaited calf...

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Spotlight On 'Betts' the dolphin

01 Nov 2016

By Eco Ranger Sue

We thought it was time we caught up with one of the newer dolphin visitors Betts, a male dolphin calf whose ancestry stems right back...

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How baby dolphins play games with pufferfish

05 Jul 2016

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Over the last few weeks Calypso has been entertaining guests watching the dolphin feed from the jetty by playing with puffer fish...

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Silhouette Fishing Hook and Line Rescue

18 Jan 2016

By Eco Ranger Sue

Crowds at the evening dolphin feeding program at Tangalooma Island Resort offered rounds of applause last night as the experienced team at the TMECC performed another successful dolphin rescue...

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Tinkerbell's Calf Update

12 Nov 2015

By Eco Ranger Sue

It has been just over a week now since Tinkerbell swam in with a new baby calf. The calf was very small but has been growing and filling out quickly in the past week...

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Tinkerbell's New Born Calf Arrives

03 Nov 2015

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Visitors to Tangalooma received a big surprise when Tinkerbell, seasoned mother of four dolphins, arrived into shore with a new calf...

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Sue (Dolphin Care) Profile

02 Nov 2015

By Eco Ranger Sue

Every day we feed the seabirds, run dolphin behaviour presentations and kookaburra-feeding programs before gearing up for the nightly dolphin feed...

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Dolphin Tinkerbell is pregnant!

15 Oct 2015

By Tangalooma Island Resort

Staff at Tangalooma have been very excited over the past few weeks after discovering that Tinkerbell, our alpha female dolphin is pregnant with baby number FIVE!

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Cruze the Baby Dolphin

14 Jul 2015

By Eco Ranger Sue

Feel-good story alert! Just recently the latest addition to the Tangalooma dolphin family ‘Cruze' was officially inducted into the nightly feeding...

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