Episode Transcript
Welcome back. We are with Natalie Hill, the wildlife manager
of East Coast Nature World. Now, all of these great
jobs that you've done over time and throughout your career,
what's the most memorable or what are some of the
most memorable experiences that you've had.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh? Okay, Probably ketching crocodiles up in the Northern Territory
was definitely one of my most memorable in respects to
the tourism aspect. I was working for territory government at
the time, so ketching crocodiles was part of it, but
also teaching tourists and educating people and the indigenous communities
on how to be crockwise. Probably another one, if I
(00:37):
can have two, would be diving with whale sharks and
tagging them in a place called Genderwashy Bay, which is
in raja Ampat. That was while I was working on
the boat called the True North and we were working
with a company called Conservation International. So we'd caught the
whale shark in an area off a bargun which is
(00:59):
like a fishing platform, and myself and the researcher with
scuba diving down and I was helping her pop the
tag on the dorsal fin so we could work out
where these whale sharks are going and find out a
little bit more information about them.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
There is a huge amount that's not known about whale sharks.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, that's a thing like in the wildlife industry and
wildlife in general, there's just so much unknown. Yeah, it's
amazing though, because there's so many opportunities there.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
It does mean that there's all sorts of cool stuff
that you get to learn and you get to share
that with other people as well.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, that's right. And like working in the Kimberly I
was up there for five years or longer hour but
then I think you're just I was constantly learning from
the history of the area, to the plants, to wildlife,
to the research, to the cultural aspect of it. So
there's just so much to learn. I don't think you
can ever know everything the geology. And that's the cool
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thing about being a guide and working tourism is at
each new place that you go to, you get to
learn more. You're sort of starting fresh again, so you're
chatting to people, you're learning, you're reading books and sharing
that information because you're obviously excited about it. So it
comes off that you're passionate about where you are and
where you're working and exciting, and you know, sometimes the
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best way to learn is when you rock up to
a pub and you talk to some old timers and
they actually tell you a whole heap of information that
you can't even get from books and you learn from
being a part of the community.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, it sounds like you've done a hell of a
lot in your career, and it's a career that I
think most people would be jealous of. You've also got
some really cool things coming up over the course of
the next six months out at East Coast Nature as well.
How would you go about finding out more about East
Coast Nature World and the things that you're doing.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Probably best is to jump on our socials. So we've
got Instagram, Facebook, jump on our website. So we've got
our one bat walk coming up and that's part of
the Tasmanian Tourism off season campaign, so again creating those
interactions with animals in a environment for the animal like,
for their welfare and also being more exclusive. We've also
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got a glow tour coming up, so you get to
come out to nature, out up to dark and you
all get a UV torch, and we go around and
we look at spotted quolls, eastern quolls, owls, birds, tazzy devils,
cockatoos and see how they light up at nighttime. Yeah, awesome, Yes,
very cool, very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Find out more jump out online now. If you'd like
to find out more, you can find out more at
more than welcome dot com dot au. There is Natalie's
story as well as a bunch of other people who
are up there. Very inspiring, very interesting. Natalie Hill, you're
the wildlife manager for East Coast Nature World. Thank you
very much for having a chat with us today.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You're more than welcome.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
It's been You're more than welcome at seven HLFM
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