About this Event
What's all the fuss about bats? Find out at the Cairns Bat Festival, Sunday 9 June at Wharf One Cafe from 4pm to 7pm.
Celebrate bats and delve into their mysterious world. Get the true Bat Facts and bust those bat myths. Watch endangered spectacled flying-foxes fly over Trinity Inlet. Learn how you can help conserve this flying-fox by recording your sightings, play the Spectacled flying-fox Game and check out the Big Book of Bat-tivities. Find out about our habitat restoration project and how you can join in with our Engaging Science citizen science project and discover your local bats.
The event features live music, guest speakers, face painting and other children's activities, bats on stilts, a bat detecting walk, bat games and books and other 'bat' shopping, and a raffle to win prizes that get you closer to the wonderful World Heritage nature of the region. Prizes for best bat costume. All funds raised assist bat carers.
To get you in the mood discover the Flying-fox Cocktail (and mocktail) trail, at various venues from 18 May until 16 June, and thank bats for the ingredients of your drink. We'll also be at the Bat Cave at EcoFiesta on Sunday 2nd June (Munro Martin Parklands 10am - 6pm) for more batty fun. Don't forget those bat costumes!
Cairns Bat Festival is supported by Cairns Regional Council and is part of the Australasian Bat Night Program. The Save Our Spectacled Flying-fox Watch and habitat restoration project is made possible through a Queensland Government Community Sustainability grant, protecting Queensland’s threatened species. Discover your local bats citizen science project is funded by the Queensland Government Engaging Science grant. The Big Book of Bat-tivities was funded through a community sustainability grant from Cairns Regional Council.
BatSoc acknowledges the Gimuy-walubarra Yidinji, Djabuguy and Yirrganydji People, who are the Traditional Custodians of the land in which we hold the Bat Festival.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wharf ONE Cafe, Trinity Wharf, Cairns City, Australia
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