Educational Tours Australia (ETA) runs nature-based and other educational tours and programmes for schools, universities, colleges, and various special interest groups.
We are a small company with biology and ecotourism qualified staff . When you make enquiries, you will be dealing with the guides directly. Apart from our set itineraries, given enough lead time we can also develop an itinerary for your group that focuses on many different special interest subjects, including ecotourism, birdwatching and geological study. We also hire out Damon Ramsey and Jane Moores to tour companies and organizations as Biology and Ecotourism guides & lecturers.
ETA is based in Cairns (North Queensland) and specializes in what we think is the best part of Australia. However, our itineraries have also included other parts of the country.
Ferns
are an ancient group of plants that need a very moist environment in
which to reproduce. They disperse by tiny dust-like spore that are
released from sporophylls, small structures that are usually found on
the underside of the frond (leaf). As would be expected from the
wettest part of Australia, the highest diversity of ferns on the
continent is in the north-eastern Queensland 'wet tropics'. Thus, ferns
are a very obvious and dominant part of the tropical rainforest.
The latter group includes the old world flying foxes and is quite
different from the 'micro-bats' Like the 'insect bats', these animals
usually roost communally, hanging upside down. Unlike their smaller
relatives, however, they tend not to sleep in dark places, but roost
hanging off trees.
