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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.
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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21 Oct 2024
By Tangalooma Island Resort
The 2024 Tangalooma Whale Watching Season was record-breaking, and the best season yet!
01 Oct 2024
Born in June 2024 to Silhouette, one of the resort's resident dolphins, Eclipse has quickly become a favourite among guests and staff.
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.
17 Jan 2024
Lonely Planet has crowned Tangalooma Beach the World’s Best Beach to See Nature, ranking the pristine destination among the top 100 beaches in the world.
16 Jan 2024
In 2023, The Tangalooma Eco Centre completed a total of 44 rescues. There have been fantastic and rewarding releases
06 Jul 2023
If you're searching for an exceptional whale watching experience in Queensland, Australia, look no further than Moreton Bay.
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!
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!
25 Aug 2020
By Eco Ranger Josh
The Tangalooma Whale Watching season is now in full swing and the baby whales have arrived!
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.
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.
15 Apr 2019
By Eco Ranger Jess
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.
05 Jun 2018
By Eco Ranger James
Over the last few months we have some Yellowtail Kingfish that have decided to call Tangalooma home.
23 May 2018
When it comes to whale spotting there’s no one in Brisbane more qualified that the expert skippers on a Tangalooma Whale Watch Cruise!
27 Feb 2018
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
By Eco Ranger Sue
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.
20 Sep 2017
Wow, was the word of the day! We couldn't even finish the safety briefing before we ran into our first pod of whales waiting on the sandbar in about 8 meters!
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.
07 Mar 2015
By Eco Ranger Ina
Reception called us today, saying that a guest had reported a sugar glider possum stuck in a brick near the back sports oval.
06 Mar 2015
TMECC got a call about a baby possum that another staff member had found on one of the walkways around the resort.
15 Jan 2015
Last week we have had to catch a pied cormorant that was caught up in fishing lines and hooks.
08 Nov 2014
This morning we’ve had a Hawksbill Sea Turtle brought in. She was found by a group of divers at Curtain Artificial Reef, a little North of Tangalooma.
16 Oct 2014
Moreton Bay boasts an incredible diversity of marine life, due to its location in an area of overlap between tropical and temperate zones.
06 Feb 2014
The bluespotted maskray is a medium sized stingray species, growing up to 40cm in disc width, and 70cm in total length.
30 Jan 2014
The tessellate moray is a large species of moray eel found within the Indo-West Pacific. They grow up to 1.8m in length, but may potentially get as large as 3m.
21 Jan 2014
The big eye trevally is a common predatory fish distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific, and found around inshore and offshore reefs and seamounts down to depths of 100m.
12 Sep 2013
The feather fin bullfish is a common reef fish distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific. They are found singly or in pairs in many reef environments.
04 Sep 2013
Blue swimmer crabs (also known as sand crabs) are specialised for swimming in the water, with their back pair of legs being paddle shaped.
05 Aug 2013
The yellow boxfish can be found in tropical and temperate regions throughout the Indo-Pacific oceans, usually associated with lagoons, and coral/rocky reefs from depths of 1m to 40m deep.
16 Jul 2013
The Starry pufferfish belongs to the family Tetraodontidae, which includes all species of toadfish and pufferfish.