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Read first hand accounts of what is seen on-board our Whale Watching Cruises from Brisbane. Updates are posted daily by our on-board Eco Rangers and Commentary team.
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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20 Jun 2024
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.
29 Apr 2024
Tangalooma Island Resort’s most recent eco initiative is the installation of sugar glider boxes, designed to house our local sugar gliders on Moreton Island.
16 Jan 2024
In 2023, The Tangalooma Eco Centre completed a total of 44 rescues. There have been fantastic and rewarding releases
16 Nov 2023
The 2023 Tangalooma whale watching season was a truly memorable season. Throughout the season, a total of 886 whales were spotted from the Tangalooma Jet, the resort's largest boat.
27 Jan 2023
Earlier this month, Sea World joined Tangalooma’s Eco Rangers to help rescue Comet, one of our local bottlenose dolphins.
25 Jul 2022
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!
07 Feb 2022
Meet the Eco Centre's latest rescue, Charlie the pheasant coucal. After Eco Rangers found her in the middle of a track, they discovered her nest had been disturbed and took her under their care.
09 Mar 2021
Moreton was hit by a car on Moreton Island and also had a fishing hook in her stomach. She is very lucky to have been found and given expert care and rehabilitation by the amazing team involved.
02 Sep 2020
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!
20 Jan 2020
Sea Shepherd recently landed on the beach at Tangalooma and a large group of over 50 people assisted in a large-scale beach clean-up.
02 Dec 2019
The Wildlife living in the National Parks on Moreton Island has been under a great deal of stress lately and with no rain, the island is looking very dry.
29 Oct 2019
The Eco Rangers have found a turtle with his front left flipper missing, and will send him off to Marine Parks for veterinary care.
24 Oct 2019
This week we noticed one of our Pelicans “Mr Percival” had two fishing hooks embedded in his beak, with fishing line wrapping around him, keeping his beak closed.
Over the last few weeks, three sugar gliders have been found around the resort that needed some help.
22 Aug 2019
By Eco Ranger Daniel
Tangalooma's Eco Ranger Dan gives us his whale watching update, as we pass the halfway mark through the 2019 whale watching season.
12 Jun 2019
There is a lot of action happening on the coastline of Moreton Island right now. We also had a close encounter with a false killer whale which is a unique and rare experience for all.
11 Jun 2019
There have been several sightings of Whales over the past few days. Some are even showing off for guests on the cruise by breaching and splashing about.
04 Jun 2019
Launching on June 1, Tangalooma's 2019 whale watching season is expected to be its biggest and best yet, with a 10% increase in calves to enter the waters of Moreton Bay before the end of October.
01 Jun 2019
By Eco Ranger Jess
A record 36,000 humpback whales will travel all the way from Antarctica to navigate Queensland's warmer coastline.
15 Apr 2019
At Tangalooma we are extremely fortunate to live in an environment that is home to many different species of birds, including George.
08 Nov 2018
Meet Reggie, a working English Springer Spaniel trained to detect cane toads, and is tasked with the important role of keeping Moreton Island cane toad free.
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.
27 Feb 2018
By Eco Ranger James
Keeping a watchful eye on the abundance of wildlife that call Moreton Bay home is a round the clock job for the Eco Rangers that live and work at Tangalooma Island Resort.
26 Feb 2018
We love animals great and small at Tangalooma and the friendly pelican is no exception. We catch up with Eco Ranger Sue as she updates us on the recent release of 2 baby pelicans.
01 Jul 2017
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.
18 Jan 2016
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...