Lone Pine Sanctuary

General information

Destination	Category
Brisbane, Australia	Sightseeing Tours

Program details

Spend an intriguing and entertaining afternoon acquainting yourself with brilliant Brisbane and meeting Australia’s cutest residents at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. This guided tour showcases the sights of Brisbane including the historic Tower Mill Observatory. Get a feel for Brisbane's convict past before travelling through the leafy subtropical suburbs. Visit Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, the world's first and largest koala sanctuary to cuddle a koala and enjoy spectacular views of the Brisbane city, Moreton Bay and Stradbroke Island from Mount Coot-tha's Lookout. Mount Coot-tha, stands at 287 metres above sea level, roughly six kilometres to the west of the Brisbane central business district. The Lookout includes the Kuta Café, the Summit Restaurant and a gift shop.

Lone Pine is the world's oldest and largest koala sanctuary. It hosts a variety of wildlife including: koalas, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, wombats, reptiles and echidnas as well as a platypus. Visitors can hold koalas for a fee as well as being able to feed and pet the free-roaming kangaroos. Multi-coloured Australian cockatoos and parrots as well as emus, cassowarys and kookaburras are hosted there. Visitors can feed the Rainbow Lorikeets that freely gather at the koala sanctuary attracted by nectar meals, bird of prey shows are once a day, the Tasmanian devils get their food in the afternoon and koalas are fed in the morning and in the afternoon.

Meeting/pick-up point: Selected Brisbane City Hotels and Brisbane Transit Centre.
Duration: Just over three hours.
Start/opening time: 12.45pm.
Others: Itinerary may be altered due to public holidays.