Halloween in FNQ

13/10/2025

I'm attempting to scare away my bills..

13/10/2025

Countdown to Halloween in Cairns and Atherton Tablelands & FNQ

🎃 Halloween in Cairns, Atherton Tablelands & FNQ 👻

Join our private, locals only group, to find the best trick or treating addresses around FNQ.
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• Best-Dressed House Competition
• Best-Dressed Costume Competition
• Halloween Trivia Competition

Prizes donated by amazing local businesses
• Bright futures NQ
• Hartley's Crocodile Adventures
• Kuranda Koala Gardens
• Birdworld Kuranda
• Cairns Aquarium
• Tomb of the Pharaohs
• Hambledon House Community Centre
• Flinders Collectables & Gems

Thank you to these businesses for your kind donations 💜 we couldn't run these awesome competitions without you all 🧡🎃


Halloween in FNQ

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13/10/2025

Some absolutely Turt-ly awesome news!! 📰

The IUCN Red List has reassessed the conservation status of the Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and have to moved them from Endangered to Least Concern!!

Green Sea Turtle populations have increased almost 30% since the 1970s!

In 1978 Green sea turtles became a protected species as they were at critically low population numbers due to excessive hunting for their shells, eggs and meat for turtle soup!

After many years of conservation efforts we are very pleased to hear that their populations have grown significantly!
Although they have not yet reached original population numbers and there is still much more work to be done for the other six species of sea turtles which are all listed as threatened, endangered and critically endangered internationally!

Here at the we have a nonprofit sea turtle hospital
We currently have two Green Sea Turtles within our care!

Everyday we are reminded of the threats these creatures face and our mission is to educate and raise awareness to help protect future populations!

If you would like to help our recovering sea turtles, then be sure you book a tour of our sea turtle rehabilitation centre!
Every ticket sold is a direct donation to

We offer daily tours and are open everyday 9:30-3:30

11/10/2025

11/10/2025

OMG how cute are baby gliders!! 😍😍 We are proud to announce a successful breeding for our squirrel gliders bringing in twin girls to the family!!

We haven’t named them yet, so if you have a suggestion, drop it below ⬇️

11/10/2025

11/10/2025

I wore this to my daughter's Halloween party and got asked to leave by her boyfriend's mother.

My daughter Nina is twenty-three and hosting her first adult Halloween party at her apartment. She invited me because we're close like that, or at least I thought we were.

I wanted to do something funny. Something that would make people laugh and not take up too much space in her tiny living room. Saw someone selling moving boxes on Tedooo app for cheap, grabbed a lamp shade from Goodwill, made this "One Night Stand" costume in about forty minutes.

I thought it was hilarious. Showed up with a bottle of wine tucked in the top drawer cutout feeling pretty proud of myself.

Nina laughed so hard she snorted. Her friends were taking photos. Everyone was having a good time until her boyfriend's mom showed up unannounced because she "wanted to see what kind of environment her son was spending time in."

She took one look at me, then at Nina, then back at me.

"Is this what passes for humor in your family?"

The room went silent in that specific way where everyone's suddenly very interested in their drinks.

Nina tried to explain it was just a costume, just a joke, but this woman cut her off and said, "I think it's inappropriate for a mother to dress this way around young people. It sets a tone."

I'm standing there in a cardboard box with a lamp on my head holding a bottle of Pinot Grigio wondering what alternate universe I walked into.

She suggested I leave so "the party could continue in a more respectable manner."

I left. Not because she told me to, but because I could see Nina's face crumbling and I didn't want to make it worse.

My daughter called me two hours later crying. Said her boyfriend's mom left right after I did and spent the whole ride home texting him about "family values" and "red flags."

They broke up three days later. He told Nina his mom didn't think I was "a good influence" and maybe they wanted different things.

Nina showed up at my house last weekend and said, "Mom, that costume was the funniest thing at that party and I should've told her that."

I still have the box. Gonna wear it to hand out candy this year. I've earned it.

And I listed that barely-used lamp shade on Tedooo app because I'm petty enough to make three dollars off this story.

11/10/2025

Why does Halloween make us think of trick-or-treating, witches on broomsticks, bobbing for apples, and carved pumpkins? Here’s a look back at the origins of Halloween traditions, and why we celebrate Halloween the way we do today! Like did you know pumpkins weren't the original jack-o-lanterns? Learn what they started as! 🎃 Almanac.com/Halloween-Traditions

11/10/2025

With over 250 birds in our free flight aviary Birdworld Kuranda is a bird lovers dream 💚💚

You can purchase your tickets upon entry at our admissions desk, there is also a limited amount of bird feed available to purchase for a small extra fee. This is limited so our birds don’t get too greedy! 🤣🤣

10/10/2025

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🎃 Halloween in Cairns, Atherton Tablelands & FNQ 👻

10/10/2025

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