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Winter 2019 - Accommodation Specials
Winter Specials - May 1st to Aug 31st Stay Three Nights in an Inala Cottage and get a complimentary Bruny Breakfast for 2 people on the morning of your choice AND get an complementary hour in the Raptor Photograph Hide. Stay Two nights in an Inala Cottage and get a complimentary Bruny Breakfast for 2 people on the morning of your choice...Read more
One hour guided Botanical Tours of Inala’s Jurassic Garden
Join a one hour walking tour of the beautiful 5 acre garden at Inala on South Bruny Island. This private garden is overflowing with a diverse array of almost 600 Gondwanan species which are grouped into their botanical families to demonstrate the similarities between the now widely-separated southern landmasses of Australia, New Zealand...Read more
25th Anniversary Newsletter and Celebration
This is a very special edition of the Inala newsletter as it marks two special occasions in Inalaland: our 25th birthday and the 5th anniversary of the opening of our Museum and Jurassic garden (both, coincidentally and unintentionally on 31 March!). Here is the link to the complete newsletter. The last quarter of a century has seen many...Read more
Mid Summer Newsletter 2018/19
Here is our Summer newsletter - jam packed with orphan stories, trip reports, upcoming Australian and International tours, a new lovely staff member and as many updates from a year at Inala as we could squeeze in. We hope you enjoy it. Sign up for our quarterley newsletter hereRead more
Botanic Gardens Day 2019
We are delighted that the Inala Jurassic Garden is now a botanic garden and we are part of 'Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand' ( BGANZ) Each year they have a Botanic Gardens Day and this year we shall be taking part on the 26th May 2019 There will be a Guided One Hour Tour at 11am - $25 pp (Normally $40) Join a walking tour of...Read more
All is well after the Bruny fire
We have been very touched by the number of emails from around the world asking if Inala is ok after the recent fire on Bruny and the continuing fires in Tasmania. Fortunately the wind did not bring the Bruny fire towards Inala so we are all absolutely fine and we are operating very much business as usual, with the burnt area now very...Read more
Inala Photography Tours
Due to many requests we are very excited to be offering for the first time Inala Bird Photography tours. It used to be that birders & photographers were very different species, yet now most people are a blending both interests. We will offer premium calibre photography training hand in hand with specialist birding knowledge, all done...Read more
Mid-Summer Inala Newsletter 2017
A Very Merry Inala Christmas The grass is growing faster than Bori can mow it in the Gondwana Garden, The sunset colours of the Christmas Bells are painting the Bruny roadsides, there are fluffy chicks peeping and cheeping in every corner of the landscape and the Bruny ferry is running full steam, packed with relaxed holiday makers and...Read more
An update on Orange-bellied Parrots
News on the OBP front is not so rosy as things seem to be for birds here at Inala, but we're not giving up the fight yet. Confronted with the cold hard facts that only four wild females and eleven wild males returned this year to their breeding ground at Bathurst Harbour, and recognition that the captive-breeding program has failed to...Read more
Inala Autumn Newsletter
Welcome to Autumn at Inala Summer is over, yet the good weather remains strong down on Bruny Island, most chicks are fully fledged and the adult Short-Tailed Shearwaters and Little Penguins are beginning to head back out to sea. Aerial insectivores are still dancing on the warm insect laden breezes and there are enough tree and plants...Read more
