Monkey Mia - East Coast Equivalent

Hey Brad,

Click the following link.

CLICK HERE

It will take you to the dolphin page at Tangalooma resort on Moreton island. They have an active program there where visitors can feed local wild dolphins.

Cheers

Brian

Hi Brad
Maybe Tin Can Bay, was a family of dolphins there for many years.

Why would you want to stand in water for hours waving a dead fish that you've just paid a fortune for with 100 tourists just to see if you will be the lucky one to get close to a dolphin ? :))
I'm told Tangalooma is better for the dolphins these days. If not there has to be somewhere that is.

Years ago before such things were the norm at Monkey Mia I wandered down to the beach early and saw four dutch tourists interracting with a group of dolphins. The beach was totally deserted at that time of the morning and I would of taken a pix but I thought that the totally nude tourists wouldn't of appreciated it.

You can feed dolphins at Tangalooma on Moreton Island. Moreton Island is 40k from bris and fantastic beach 4WDing. Very similar to Fraser but without the reputation and no/less dingoes!
I highly recommend it!
CHappo

There's a mum and son dolphin pair at Tin Can Bay north of BrisVegas.... the times we have been there, we have not been disappointed.

Shark caves at Forster http://www.abyss.com.au/Tfoster.html

Gropers off cronulla (I think gus is still around), Sharks off the poo outlet around Voodoo Crounlla...

Seal diving, Narooma - also has some Rays that are FN HUGE. i went down to secure anchor rope when everythin above me went black.. I thought it was the boat shadow until I looked up - was only about 3 ft from me, but apparently (they told me after I got out) that its a local 'pet'... The people in the boat say I came up that fast I cleared the water up to my knees...

Batemans for sharks

Bass Point for ANYTHIN', plenty of Morey Eels.. :) easy to drag feed out of the holes too

Merimbula for wrecks.

As some of the replies have stated ,Tangaloma on Moreton island ,however you pay for the privlege of iteracting with the dolphins at the resort ,,go nth on the same beach /western side of island / walk into ocean up to knees / snap fingers underwater for2-3 min = dolphins ,, best times, hr after sunrise and at sunset.

Hi, we went to Tangalooma a couple of years ago and did the dolphin feeding thing. They are really strict with the interaction, because of the risks of disease, etc etc etc... so you have to queue up for ages after a big lecture about dos and don'ts - and it depends on how many dolphins decide to come in to visit whether you get to see them. It was part of our accommodation package, so didn't think too much about the cost (except that the kids really really wanted one of the photos... ($$$) ) They are really careful about not overfeeding them so that they don't rely on the tourist feeding. You get to stick your hand in a bucket of disinfectant, then hold a fish with the help of the 'guide', which the dolphin then takes. Very cool to see them up close, but you don't see a heck of a lot. Though a couple of the younger ones were stuffing around in the shallows which was amusing! I take their point about the human interaction.. though the next day in the environment centre chatting to the guide, we heard some interesting stories in which the dolphins brought 'presents' of fish for the people.. and actually seemed to get cheesed off when they didn't take them. So, nothing like swimming with the dolphins.. but in the circumstances you can understand why they need to control it. Sometimes we can love our wild, and wildlife, to death.

(Airfares to NZ are cheap at the moment, and there are a few places on their east coast where they take you swimming with the dolphins!! Unfortunately these cost, and we didn't get to do it when we were there in Jan this year.... Have a dolphin mad 11 yr old, so she would have loved the idea.)

Tracey