Wild Cave Tours

11/01/2025

Great conditions in the caves this week.
I am now away for a week at our national conference, Caving in the Moonlight. I will be back in a week, with trips available from 21st January.
See you then.

07/01/2025

Tomorrow Thursday 9th January is the last chance for a caving tour until 23 January, after I get back from the Caves Australia (Australian Speleological Federation) conference being held interstate next week.
There is always the chance to see rare invertebrate animals! You have to be quick before they hide from our unwelcome light.
Here is a species of pale red centipede I have only seen three times, but always in this particular cave system in the World Heritage Area at Mole Creek. Living World Heritage values!
Thanks for Rebecca fro encouraging me to share such a SCARY pic, although such a shy animal!
The first two are from last week the other from 2015.

26/12/2024

More fun to come, summer is here and enjoying wonderful days immersed in these beautiful caves.
Thanks Sarah R for the great photos.

16/12/2024

New booking system up and running well!
Thanks for your patience peoples!
It's a great platform to use...
And it's cheaper for users than the previous one.....

Loking forward to SUMMER yay.

16/11/2024

New booking system coming, nearly ready to release summer / New Year trips.
Hang in there!
See you soon!
Cheers

21/09/2024

Please read more about caves and caving in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area with Wild Cave Tours. Read about my business's environmental credentials, and how you can be involved.

World Heritage caves, landscape and our sustainability. By achieving Ecotourism Australia Certification status, Wild Cave Tours joins fellow exemplary operators in terms of sustainability and provision of authentic, high-quality nature-based tourism experiences. The ECO Certification logo means that...

21/09/2024

Let's Care For Country.
Ongoing revegetation works continue in the TWWHA at Sassafras Creek, followed by an educational caving trip at the site.

Many thanks once again, to students and staff for the massive effort planting 161 trees, graminoids and grasses on Wednesday.

Thanks so much to Habitat Plants and Parks and Wildlife for growing on the seed we collected onsite, the work making tree guards and providing tools.

I am trying to increase resilience to erosion and halt new erosion gullies that have formed in the last decade.
Climate change has brought unprecedented wildfires to the peatlands of the Central Plateau catchments. The alpine ecology is not fire tolerant. Peat has burned down to the bedrock over the karst catchment, caused massive runoff response to heavy rain instead of soaking in. Furthermore, rain events are now more intense than before, with long dry spells in between. All this is a recipe for erosion in vulnerable glacial gravel-based soils.

07/09/2024

"Oh-oh, I'm nearly through the squeeze, now how am I going to NOT land in that puddle?"
It was certainly impossible to avoid water yesterday! But hey, how good after that long dry autumn-winter?!
The caves are beautiful now.

31/08/2024

Me and Kelly after I successfully fished the iPhone 13 out of the water below using this stick.
Photos are saved and the phone still works too!
But: best not drop iPhones.....

29/08/2024

Beautiful photographic interpretations by Sarah Rhodes. I will show them progressively over a few weeks.

21/08/2024

Thank you Back Roads. I have always felt part of NW Tasmania.

Come see NW Tasmania, everything to make Tasmania exceptional is within easy reach from Mole Creek. Fly to Devonport, Wynyard or Launceston and take it from there.

Back Roads only left out the controversial Tarkine issue. Oh well. Come and see for yourself. You decide if it should be clearfelled or be national park or managed as special Aboriginal cultural land.

Foodie and farmer Paul West packs his surfboard for a Back Roads visit to tiny Marrawah in northwest Tasmania for the legendary West Coast Classic: three days of big swells, blowing gales and woolly beanies.

20/08/2024

The glow-worms were really good on Sunday.

19/08/2024

Go and see the Green Travel Guide: visit operators accredited by our own Ecotourism Association of Australia.
You just can't go wrong!
https://greentravelguide.org/l

19/08/2024

Cultural trees hold great significance for aboriginal people.
We visit and pay respects to cultural trees on our cave tours.
Here are two articles on cultural trees.

A visit to a scar tree with Wiradjuri man Mick Bogie.

15/08/2024

Thanks to Adventure All Stars, the show is awesome. This is the Launceston episode.
These wonderful humans raise money for their nominated charities and for their efforts they get taken on an adventure blind date!
Among the adventures shown are Wild Cave Tours as well as Abseiling and rockclimbing by Ian from Rock Climbing Tasmania.

This is "Adventure All Stars - “Launceston” - Season 4 Episode 3 (Online Version)" by Adventure All Stars on Vimeo, the home for high quality…

14/08/2024

Wild Winter Water Caves trips have been extended to the end of October (conditions permitting).
Seasonal conditions may vary each year, so I wanted to make it possible for visitors to take advantage if the wet conditions continue.
Please call or email me for further info!

30/07/2024

Winter means stunning conditions in the caves and no summer crowds in Tasmania in winter!

15/07/2024

Can't wait- I hope this is as fun to watch as it was to shoot! See the rest of you on the other side!