Cockatours

17/04/2025

I’m honestly baffled with how stockmen, bushies & hunters run (& climb) from pi**ed off cattle and pigs in jeans! I have always loved these style of shorts for work for that reason! I’m really stoked with how they turned out. A local, eco-backed company Shirtbox does all our logo printing & embroidery for us. This new print process worked a treat.
It’s also rumoured, these shorts will now make you strong enough to stop a Lomu break 😂

Let me know what you think 😊

01/04/2025

Kimberley scenes…the IG crop edition 😂 counting down the days now til our first tour kicks off! 🥰

21/03/2025

Travel to the Kimberley, NT/Kakadu & Cape York and get paid?! 2025 Job Applications are officially open!

Is this Australia's job of the year?! 2x Cape York, 2x Kimberley and 2x Gulf Savannah (Kakadu, NT, QLD) tours. This is honestly THE year of years to work with us as a chef/cook. Tag your mates and anyone you know that might be well suited for the most epic working holiday yet! 3 regions in a year is unheard of!

These photos should give a taste of how epic the role is! It's pretty difficult to list all the highlights, but let's have a crack at a few...

Kimberley:
- Mitchell Plateau & Falls
- Purnululu (Bungle Bungles)
- El Questro
- Kununurra & Lake Argyle
- Tunnel Ck, Windjana/Bell/Galvans/Manning Gorges,
- Willie Ck Pearl Farm
- Lake Argyle & Kununurra
- Gibb River Rd
- 2 water cruises, 2 heli flights

Gulf Savannah:
- Kakadu NP & Ngurrungurrudjba Billabong
- Litchfield NP & Waterfalls
- Nitmiluk Gorge & Dinner Cruise
- Mataranke hot springs
- Limmen NP & The Lost City
- Burketown & Salt Pans
- Undara Lava Tubes
- Epic croc experience at Top End Safari Camp
- 3 water cruises, 2 scenic flights

Cape York:
- Pajinka (Tip of Australia)
- Split Rock Art Site
- A very real, authentic Welcome to Country
- Thursday Island Tour
- Weipa Croc & Bird boat tour
- Cooktown
- Fruit Bat Falls
- Rinyirru NP Wildlife day
- Cape Tribulation & Daintree
- 2 water cruises

New staff get the option to go on each outsourced tour at least once (when seats are available). Tours are extensively researched and we have built great relationships across all regions. The tour truck is a comfortable new 2024 purpose built tour truck. And did we mention we have a 5.0 star rating on Google from 140+ reviews?!

Please DON'T send applications by social media and please don’t phone us about the role!

Applications close Friday, 28th March, 2025.
See more about the job & apply here: https://cockatours.com/jobs/

11/03/2025

When you get a campsite like this...it'd be madness not to have lunch in the water!

10/03/2025

Is this Australia's job of the year?! 2x Cape York, 2x Kimberley and 2x Gulf Savannah (Kakadu, NT, QLD) tours. We are pretty close to opening applications for this role. This is honestly the year of years to work with us as a chef/cook. Tag your mates and anyone you know that might be well suited for the most epic working holiday yet! 3 regions in a year is unheard of!

It's pretty difficult to list all the highlights, but let's have a crack at a few...

Kimberley:
- Mitchell Plateau & Falls
- Purnululu (Bungle Bungles)
- El Questro
- Kununurra & Lake Argyle
- Tunnel Ck, Windjana/Bell/Galvans/Manning Gorges,
- Willie Ck Pearl Farm
- Lake Argyle & Kununurra
- Gibb River Rd
- 2 water cruises, 2 heli flights

Gulf Savannah:
- Kakadu NP & Ngurrungurrudjba Billabong
- Litchfield NP & Waterfalls
- Nitmiluk Gorge & Dinner Cruise
- Mataranke hot springs
- Limmen NP & The Lost City
- Burketown & Salt Pans
- Undara Lava Tubes
- Epic croc experience at Top End Safari Camp
- 3 water cruises, 2 scenic flights

Cape York:
- Pajinka (Tip of Australia)
- Split Rock Art Site
- A very real, authentic Welcome to Country
- Thursday Island Tour
- Weipa Croc & Bird boat tour
- Cooktown
- Fruit Bat Falls
- Rinyirru NP Wildlife day
- Cape Tribulation & Daintree
- 2 water cruises

New staff get the option to go on each outsourced tour at least once (when seats are available). Tours are extensively researched and we have built great relationships across all regions. The tour truck is a comfortable new 2024 purpose built tour truck.

The job will be officially announced soon. Please don't send any applications until it is officially released and please DON'T send applications by social media!

See more about the job here: https://cockatours.com/jobs/

05/03/2025

Is anybody else having campfire withdrawals at the moment? Or is it just me?! Serious question, not even asking for a friend! :P

17/02/2025

I don't think there's a better photo that encapsulates the importance of this place to a traveller...

13/02/2025

I can never get enough of seeing these during our Kutini-Payamu version of our Cape York tour! Have you seen one yet? Or are they on your bucket list?!

12/02/2025

So we have a secret pumpkin recipe and there are always leftovers. I finally figured out the best thing to do with the leftovers…pumpkin scones and damper 🤤🤤🤤

03/02/2025

It’s just not worth it…

31/01/2025

I’ve taken a little time away from socials of late. I find it hard to keep up with sharing the stories and images, but I’m working on it. Here’s a cracker of a sunset from Weipa last season…the stuff dreams are made of.

28/11/2024

A few years ago, we were blessed to have Linzi, an absolute legend of a guide, join us for a season. I was still learning the ropes of how to run a tour business and took her on a trip to Cape York in late April, to show her the ropes. We ran into a lot of rain, pulled a bunch of funny faces and had a great time. Unfortunately, on ANZAC day, we had to pull out and drove from Weipa to Cairns. The next day, the Archer River went over the bridge by 8m and stayed that way for a week!

07/11/2024

A sneak peak of one of the many wild places we’ll be visiting on the Kimberley tour next year. The cutest Little Rock wallabies live around here too!

I’m currently driving the new truck back from WA but not posting the story of it over here, so there aren’t too many spoilers for clients. If you want to see the epic places and hear the yarns along the way head over to to follow the adventure.

04/11/2024

It’s finally happened! We’ve bought ourselves a brand spanker! (Switch back and forth between pics 1&2 to see a comparison of old and new).

I’ve been driving back from Perth (to Cairns) over the past few weeks, doing a reccy of the Kimberley for our 2025 tours along the way. The new truck is brilliant and will certainly take us to incredible places in 2025! I’m heading to Darwin soon where Dad and a mate of his will join on the 2-3 week trip home through the Territory!

08/10/2024

After 10 years of gallantry with Cockatours, it is time to finally say hooroo to our beloved first truck, Zeus. The pics of him bogged at the end are worth a look! 😂

The OGs, Shane & Beck , acquired Zeus back in 2015 when Cockatours kicked off. In 2018, I took the reins from Beck. Zeus became our noble steed and came with buckets full of adventure! Since then we’ve done our Best of Cape York tours, free community tours for at-risk groups, charters for historians and engineers and some pretty shifty party & bucks events 😂 We’ve traversed the wild Queensland & NT outback on my favourite tour, the Gulf Savannah. He has given so many travellers, what I can only describe as a ‘life-changing experience’.

While he’s always had a strong heart (engine) he’s had a few moments with blown alternators, compressors, condensers and that cheeky relay! But over the years, we learned each others quirks and he just kept ticking along. As we branch out further and further remote, we decided to invest in a new rig and let Zeus rest in the greener paddocks of timeless adventure. Zeus has been purchased by a lovely bloke down in Adelaide who is going to kit him out as a motor home.

Zeus will always be our first love. Onya mate! Happy retirement!

04/10/2024

Motorbike, bus-truck, tag-a-long? Figuring out what type of Cape York tour to do is confusing! I wrote this article to break it down for those thinking about doing a tour and are a bit overwhelmed by the choices. All your options are listed in a concise table with cost (inc. $/day), number of passengers, Google rating and more.

We are sold out for 2025 so this is not me trying to sell more. It actually would do harm as it directs potential customers to our competitors. But, I think it helps those just wanting a good holiday, figure out which way to go. Happy travels!

Not sure which Cape York tour to do? We explain the options, and have a simple TABLE comparing the costs, days, vehicles and reviews!

03/10/2024

“Gabi, Fritz, go there and walk this way, it’ll be a great shot” I yelled from the top of the tour truck. They did, and so followed the rest of our guests because it was such a cracker of a shot!
Gabi & Fritz came all the way from Germany just for a tour with us this year. What a pleasure it was too! They were full of life, adventure and quality yarns. We loved having you both on board!

12/09/2024

Wild! We are officially FULLY BOOKED for all 2025 tours.
Butttt...there is still a year to go and there are often cancellations for various reasons. If you'd like to be put on the waiting list for an honestly life-changing tour, please shoot me an email ASAP!