DOLPHIN FEEDING AT MORETON ISLAND

One of the most amazing interactions available with any animal from the sea, Dolphin feeding is a once in a lifetime opportunity for people to interact with one of nature’s most beautiful and intelligent creatures. Hand feeding wild dolphins is a surreal experience that makes you fell like you are at one with the dolphins and gives you the opportunity to personally interact in their natural environment.

Even if you don’t get in the water and hand feed the Dolphins, watching the experience from the flood lit Jetty is also an amazing experience. Often watching the dolphin feeding allows you a better insight into the animals with a bird’s eye view of their interaction with the feeders. You are able to watch them enter the feeding area, swim around and take fish right out of the hand of the feeders.

The number of people feeding the dolphins varies and is always left up to the experts from the Tangalooma resort to decide on sufficient numbers. They do not want too many people to feed the dolphins so we request that only those people who really want to, go in to feed. Those who do feed will only have a few seconds in the water, and may not see as much as those who choose to stay on the jetty to watch.

Dolphins are incredibly intelligent animals and please remember that the dolphins are wild. What you will experience is natural and wild behavior, they are not trained dolphins so take the time to listen to the presentations during the feeding and learn about dolphins.

The pods of dolphins that visit Tangalooma are inshore bottlenose dolphins, which live in the waters of Moreton Island surrounding the resort. There are said to now be between six and eight dolphins regularly attending the feeding sessions. If you spend time looking carefully at each of the dolphins you will notice that they are all slightly different to one another. Some of the differentiating points that you may be able to tell them apart from one another are by their size, colour and shape of their dorsal fin.

For your chance to experience this once in a lifetime experience, book a Moreton Island Tour and overnight stay at the Tangalooma Resort.

Please note: The Dolphin Feeding Program operates on strict guidelines and therefore restrictions on feeding apply. The number of guests able to feed the dolphins will depend on weather and tidal conditions and dolphin attendance. We cannot guarantee you can participate in dolphin feeding during your stay as this is at the absolute discretion of the Tangalooma resort staff.