Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands

Date:
29th Nov – 13th Dec, 2024

Length:
14 Days

Departing:
Perth

Cost:
$5800pp Twin share

Description:

Our annual birding tour for local specialties and vagrants. This tour is primarily focused around finding as many vagrants as possible, while also seeing the local specialties and endemics. It is a more fast paced tour than November and not ideally suited to photographers who prefer a slower pace to obtain those high quality photos.

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Torres Strait – Boigu, Dauan & Saibai Islands 2025

Date:
15th February 2025, 2025

Length:
7 Days

Departing:
Horn Island

Cost:
$5800 pp Twin Share

Description:

In February 2025 Richard is leading a single Torres Strait trip. Our tour commences on Horn Island, from where we head North aboard Tropic Paradise, our comfortable twin-share live-a-board vessel. Tropic Paradise is airconditioned and we will have a professional chef on board preparing our meals each day. After the trip north, we spend the rest of the week on Boigu, Dauan and Saibai Islands, anchored off the protected Northern coast, visiting birding hotspots and exploring the otherwise inaccessible rivers and coastline. * Note, even though we are on a live-a-board vessel, this is not a pelagic trip. There is no swell in the area of the Torres Strait we visit, although we can occasionally experience some wind chop on passage.

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Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands

Date:
11th – 25th Nov, 2025

Length:
14 Days

Departing:
Perth

Cost:
$5800pp Twin share

Description:

Our annual birding tour best suited for photographers and first timers finding local specialties and vagrants.

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Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands

Date:
28th to 12th Dec, 2025

Length:
14 Days

Departing:
Perth

Cost:
$5800pp Twin share

Description:

Our annual birding tour for local specialties and vagrants. This tour is primarily focused around finding as many vagrants as possible, while also seeing the local specialties and endemics. It is a more fast paced tour than November and not ideally suited to photographers who prefer a slower pace to obtain those high quality photos.

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Cocos Christmas November 2026

Date:
3-17th November, 2026

Length:
14 days

Departing:
Perth

Cost:
$5800pp twin share

Description:

Our annual November tour which is best suited to first timers and photographers. We spend a week on both islands exploring Christmas Island from it’s rainforest clad plateau to the coastal terraces where tens of thousands of seabirds breed, as well as the Cocos’ the birding hotspots.

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Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Islands

Date:
20th November-4th December, 2026

Length:
14 Days

Departing:
Perth

Cost:
$5800pp Twin share

Description:

Our annual November- December birding tour for local specialties and vagrants. Seven days on each island, starting on Cocos and finishing on Christmas Island.

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Ten days on the Cocos Keeling Islands searching for vagrants.

Date:
8th – 18th December, 2026

Length:
14 Days

Departing:
Perth

Cost:
$5200pp Twin share

Description:

Ten days on Cocos searching for the local specialties and focusing on vagrants and rarities.

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Torres Strait – Boigu, Dauan & Saibai Islands 2027

Date:
Feb-March, 2027

Length:
7 Days

Departing:
Horn Island

Cost:
$ TBA pp Twin share

Description:

In Feb/March 2027 Richard is leading three back-to-back Torres Strait trips. Our tours commence on Horn Island, from where we head North aboard Tropic Paradise, our comfortable twin-share live-a-board vessel. Tropic Paradise is airconditioned and we will have a professional chef on board preparing our meals each day. After the trip north, we spend the rest of the week on Boigu, Dauan and Saibai Islands, anchored off the protected Northern coast, visiting birding hotspots and exploring the otherwise inaccessible rivers and coastline. * Note, even though we are on a live-a-board vessel, this is not a pelagic trip. There is no swell in the area of the Torres Strait we visit, although we can occasionally experience some wind chop on passage.

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Torres Strait – Boigu, Dauan & Saibai Islands

Date:
TBA, 2027

Length:
7 Days

Departing:
Horn Island

Cost:
$ TBA pp Twin share

Description:

In Feb/March 2027 Richard is leading three back-to-back Torres Strait trips. Our tours commence on Horn Island, from where we head North aboard Tropic Paradise, our comfortable twin-share live-a-board vessel. Tropic Paradise is airconditioned and we will have a professional chef on board preparing our meals each day. After the trip north, we spend the rest of the week on Boigu, Dauan and Saibai Islands, anchored off the protected Northern coast, visiting birding hotspots and exploring the otherwise inaccessible rivers and coastline. * Note, even though we are on a live-a-board vessel, this is not a pelagic trip. There is no swell in the area of the Torres Strait we visit, although we can occasionally experience some wind chop on passage.

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