Australian Adventure with O’Reilly’s Rainforest Guest House and Kingfisher Bay Resorts

7 days/6 nights

About the Trip

Begin your Australian Adventure in Lamington National Park, a World Heritage Site, where you’ll Stay for 2 nights at O’Reilly’s Rainforest Guesthouse. Enjoy spectacular views guided walks, or 4WD bus trips to experience the Vast birdlife and majestic waterfalls.

Venture up the Queensland’s coast to the outstanding 4 star Kingfisher Bay Resort on Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island. The island is famous for its ancient rainforests, mighty sand dunes, pristine freshwater lakes and streams, as well as an abundance of birds and wildlife. You’ll enjoy the view from catamaran transfers from Henry Bay to Kingfisher Bay Resort, and a full day ranger guided tour of Fraser Island. Take it all in at this miracle of nature, Fraser Island.

Includes: accommodation, guides, transfer to island , meals included at O’Reilly’s Guesthouse

Certification: All tours certified with Advanced Ecotourism by Australia’s Eco Certification program.

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Kingfisher Bay Resort

O’Reilly’s Rainforest Guesthouse

About Kingfisher Bay

Kingfisher Bay Resort is designed to provide an enjoyable nature based tourism experience on Fraser Island while creating minimal impact on the environment. Interpretive expert rangers take guests to explore Fraser Island’s significant natural and geographical features and interesting Aboriginal and European histories. The resort’s own grounds provide the basis of ranger guided walks. Landscaping mirrors native vegetation and protects the island’s gene pool, walkways protect dunal systems. The resort’s architectural design, infrastructure and activities were developed to minimize any adverse effects to the natural environment, conserve energy and minimize waste.

All our tours have been certified with Advanced Ecotourism accreditation from Ecotourism Australia which benchmarks responsible tourism.

For more information, visit Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island.

About O”Reilly’s Rainforest Guesthouse

The O’Reilly family pioneered ecotourism in Australia when they began showing visitors around the park in 1915. Their’s is a classic case of ecotourism enabling a local landholder to find a sustainable alternative to farming in an area of great environmental significance.

Three generations of O’Reilly family members O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat has been a family owned and operated business since first opening in 1926. After devoting over 40 years to the business, the second generation family members retired in the late 1990’s, and so charged the third generation with the responsibility of carrying on the business into the new millennium.

Two of Big Peter and Karma’s children, Shane and Tim currently work at the guesthouse while Peter Jr maintains a place on the Board. Vince and Lona’s children, Greg and Jane, are involved with the day-to-day management of the guesthouse, while Catherine, Bernadette and Tom can also be seen working casually from time to time on the mountain. Michael, (or Big Mick to us), is a cousin to Peter and Vince, and also assists in the Activities Department part-time at the Guesthouse.

More recently O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat has been awarded Advanced Accreditation under the internationally acclaimed Nature and Ecotourism Accreditation Program (NEAP).

The NEAP accreditation logo identifies O’Reilly’s as having achieved best practice in vital areas including ecological sustainability, natural area focus, education and interpretation, contribution to conservation, working with local communities, cultural history, client satisfaction and responsible marketing.

For you, our guest, advanced accreditation under NEAP provides you with peace of mind guaranteeing a quality, ecologically responsible tourism experience.

In 2005, O’Reilly’s achieved the prestigious Green Globe Benchmarked Certificate under the new Green Globe Certification program, which recognizes the operation’s commitment to operating at the world’s highest environmental standard.

Green Globe is the global Benchmarking, Certification and improvement system assisting the international travel and tourism industry to attain sustainability. Green Globe provides a certification system that responds directly to the major environmental problems facing the planet, including the greenhouse effect, over-use of freshwater resources, destruction of biodiversity, production of solid and biological waste and social issues. For more information, visit http://www.greenglobe21.com.

O’Reilly’s has spent considerable time benchmarking our energy and water consumption, waste production and disposal as well as implementing an integrated environmental and social policy. These measures will deliver ongoing reduction of non-renewable resources, extensive cost savings and secure a sustainable commercial and ecological future for us.

Learn more about O’Reilly’s Green Practices

For more information, visit O’Reillys Rainforest Guesthouse

Photograph of Leaf-tailed Gecko by: Darran Leal