North Stradbroke Island Australia Explore Its beauty and Freshwater Fish Habitat Follow the Rainbow

North Stradbroke Island or (Minjerribah) as it is called by the local custodians, is an Island paradise for all, it has a lay back atmosphere and is full of wild life, beautiful beaches and has great fishing and bushwalking, but we are going to take you on a journey to show you a little known side of it, the freshwater habitats or biotopes as they are called have some beautiful fish and many other inhabitants, so join us on this journey to paradise just a short ferry ride from the biggest city in Queensland Brisbane Australia, you will be surprised at what you can find so close to civilisation, you could be a million miles away, and that's how I feel every time I go there.
I will leave some links bellow with information:
stradbrokeisland.com
minjerribahcamping.com.au
Music by Savfk / @savfkmusic

[@KeepingFishSimple]

Wow. Just wow. This is by far your best ever video. I forgot how much there was to see on the island. You did such a good job !

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate! it was such a great adventure and heaps more to see, we have to do it again 🙂

[@brannonevans3685]

Beautiful

[@petermoxham]

Congratulations guys on such an amazing documentary - your passion for these beautiful ecosystems really comes through. I can't encourage you enough to do more videos like this!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! we are actually hitting the NT. in a couple of months so the content should keep coming, Stay tuned There should be some really cool videos out of that🙂

[@chriswood9815]

Thoroughly enjoyed 👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you Chris! I'm happy you enjoyed it 🙂

[@rabmichelle7825]

Thanks so much for putting together this awesome documentary. Loved every minute!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it, it is a beautiful place to visit, we where hoping to show people what you wouldn't normally see 🙂

[@scox7748]

Beautiful. Your videos are so good, man. I really enjoy watching them.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! It means a lot that you like them, I put a lot of work into them 🙂

[@cinemaipswich4636]

Rest in Pease Cath Walker Oodgeroo Noonuccal MBE. I first met her at a friends place on Zig Zag St and then in Why Not St in West End. In 1896 passing ships saw a gap halfway down the island, and breakers were seen on the Moreton Bay side of the island, crashing over the dunes. For me it was a wonderful place. My friends and I would surf on 100 mile beach, and at night we would see beach-camp fires dotted along the beach at night. That was in the 1960's, so long ago. It was a magical place.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Yes it was, it's a shame things can't stay the same.

[@maurodoimo9235]

Paradise Like 12. 🖤😊👍👍👍👍👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@cz964]

Great video! On top of everything I love how you pinpoint where you are on the map at every stop ❤ SUBSCRIBED and I'm a new fan!!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoy them 🙂

[@nospoon4799]

Fantastic work, great channel. Subbed.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@nospoon4799]

@@australianbiotopes4563 No probs. I was an assistant aquarist in a well known zoo for a while. I love your work. You have obviously put a huge amount of effort into this. Great stuff.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@nospoon4799 Yes when filming animals in the wild it can take hours to get that few seconds of good footage, but when you get it, it makes it all worth while 🙂

[@rrotley1]

Only recently discovered this channel and wish I had known about it sooner. Everything about the videos is superb; from the topic, to filming quality, to the editing, to the narration, to the facts/information provided etc. If only more Australian aquarists were able to see the beauty and potential in our native fish species.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! very kind, it does take a lot of work to get them to that stage in travel and footage but I think in the end it's worth it, something that will be around for reference for years, I just hope we don't look back one day to find some of these areas damaged, I am in the middle of doing some nice documentaries of North Queensland so stay tuned 🙂

[@peterbostock8609]

Great work, love the attention to detail with plants, animals as well as the fish. I've fossicked for ferns in many of the places you have visited in both north and south Qld. As a long-time fern taxonomist, I have to point out one minor error - the pouched coral fern visible in most of your southern Queensland videos has a silvery-white underside, which makes it not Gleichenia dicarpa, but the more recently named Gleichenia mendellii. It is very common in coastal heath from near Coffs Harbour north to Cooloola and Fraser Island. Does not have the pouched segments of G. dicarpa, but rather flattened leaflets with silvery-white coating on the underside.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate! I'll have to look into that, I actually got the name out of an old book of mine that could be out of date I guess, I'm happy you enjoyed the video, I to love checking out all the ferns and orchids my self, even some of the nice mosses.

[@peterbostock8609]

@@australianbiotopes4563 Not surprised you haven't seen the name of that new species - unfortunately most modern fern books for Australia are out of print! If you happen across a copy of The Flora of North Stradbroke Island by K. Stephens & D. Sharp, you will find both G. dicarpa and G. mendellii on the same page (p 352). Also googling the fern names will bring up links to NSW PlantNet and the ALA (Atlas of Living Australia). The latter has images from both living plants and dried (pressed) plant specimens. On a fishy note, I once had a trip to Iron Range in the 1990s with David (DJ) Liddle, who was a Rainbow enthusiast - I remember being shown his extensive tanks of breeding Rainbows.

[@T.J-and-Soul]

Very good video mate. Those bloody Gambusia are such a pest, they are even in our dam on our place in the Yarra Valley in Vic. They are bad fin nippers too. Why they were introduced is beyond me, we have native fish that will eat mosquito larvae. Like Galaxias.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

And yet we have all these regulations from the same people that introduced the worst pests in history, and still stock our waterways with Trout, they will never learn.

[@T.J-and-Soul]

@@australianbiotopes4563 exactly, why stock Trout if we have River Blackfish. I've put Blackfish in our dam, some were 40cm long almost 3 years ago when they went in. There's Redfin in there too, so the Blackfish have plenty of food. I put about 18 Blackfish in there. I need someone to come and catch some to check their size. I've been too sick from cancer treatment for almost two years to go fishing.

[@Kaityscichlids]

You did an absolutely amazing job with this video Jason! The footage and narration is fantastic. I would love to see more narrated videos from you in the future

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you Kaity! it was a fun project and I look forward o doing more of them now 🙂

[@UKFishCam]

Truly ace video! Loved it

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate! 🙂

[@IndoorEcosystem]

Another ripper video of an awesome area of the country ❤

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes the kind of place you don't want to leave🙂

[@NaturalBiotopes]

Good, great documentary!👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@liammcnally9572]

Great Watch! thanks for this amazing video.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching! 🙂

[@AguabonitaAquatics]

Another great video. Keep bringing us more wild Australia!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it, I will definitely bring you more keep watching 🙂

[@AcSusu.]

Very good video, thanks a lot ! Very intructive and very interesting

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching! 🙂

[@brisbaneriver-thewholejour2600]

Lovely! So many places to go on Straddie - probably lots of little waterholes on the south side of the island yet to be explored.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate! yes I'd love access to it, apparently there is over a hundred springs wetlands and small water bodies combined on the island, that is mind blowing, and we can only explore a small portion of it, this type of video is needed to document it but, like yours with the river, I hope when you have finished this river you move onto the next one and keep it going, your videos have opened a lot of information to us 🙂

[@aquaneptun5653]

Hi friend, great as always!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you my friend! 🙂

[@madaboutmilitaria3630]

Well done, that scene at about 6:20 of the fish swimming through the mangrove roots is some of the best footage I’ve ever seen. Keep up the brilliant work.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! it was my favourite part as well, you almost want it to be in 3D🙂

[@GosperTYVS]

Thank you for taking me on this walk through country 🙏🏼 your knowledge on native flora & fauna is inspiring , it just had me in awe with a big smile and the feeling of peace 🫠 … Respect brother much love and good fortune to you !!! 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥😎👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for your kind words, I'm happy you enjoyed it. 🙂

[@gregmartin1615]

I love this video! Great work Jason. The use of those aerial shots really gives context to the sites visited and referring back to the google earth map works well too. Some great Turtle footage in there too

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks mate! it took a few coffees to make this one 😬

[@footagemissing]

Great video Jason with top notch footage, and I really enjoyed the long format and the very informative narration. Keep up the great work!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! it makes it a bit easier now I have all the gear, I hope to makes some good ones in future, I appreciate the feedback 🙂

[@Itsmaaark1331]

Wow what a great video. I love the explanation and details you give throughout the video. This is truly an amazing video . Found out about your channel through kfs. Also a great pov of everything from fish and scenery.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! Nick is a great young bloke and has been helping me, so we should produce some cool stuff together, between the two of us we make a great team for content 🙂

[@midnighthorizon1]

Prior to 1894 North and South Stradbroke were one and the same island. The two islands were separated after a barque; the "Cambus Wallace" was shipwrecked in a narrow passage off the island that was carrying explosives that had to be detonated in the passage.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Yes I mentioned it was separated but being a video that is more on the wildlife and habitat I didn't want to put all the details, it would of taken away from what I was concentrating on, I did read this though and it was very interesting, apparently it didn't seperate right away it did after some bad weather shortly after, we have some pretty cool history around us if you start to dig for it, Thanks for sharing though 🙂

[@aquamon1330]

Wow, awesome video! Greetings from Germany

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! Greetings from Australia, I'm happy you enjoyed it 🙂

[@dannittohell]

Love the content! but please turn the music down. It's too distracting and doesn't fit the tranquil content. I've noticed some of your other vids have nice subdued music. Just my 2-cents! Thanks for the great content!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you greatly for your feed back, I'll be honest I'm still finding my feet with production, at 51 years old I never thought I would be doing videos for KZbin but I feel it is greatly needed for our hobby and to show people some of our beautiful places and our environment so it can be protected for our future generations, I don't have a crew like others may have for professional documentaries but I hope to better these videos with more knowledge on the technical side of things, if you go back to some of my first video I think we would have to agree they are improving but like everything things take time so thank you for your patients and I hope you can enjoy some of my future videos 🙂

[@rhondafitzpatrick1646]

great job! always love watching your videos! don't take me wrong on this next comment, maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but the rock music just seems annoying and distracting from the beauty. I am a rocker, but dang it just doesn't go with the video. but if others love it, I can take it, maybe just quite it a little, maybe....?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I love taking feedback, it has helped me improve, and I watch other videos mainly 4WD shows and other adventure shows and even a lot of documentary's to get ideas, I actually got this idea from a main stream video, I can't remember the one, but everyone seemed to like it, almost every video I do I get someone say something is wrong, it's ether to loud to quiet not long enough or to short, the choice of music is not to their taste ext. I've learnt one major thing out of it, I can't please everyone 🙂

[@rhondafitzpatrick1646]

I totally get it! and it's absolutely fine. I just turn it down, but then I can't hear your soothing voice. has anyone ever said that? you have a wonderful voice, very calm easy to listen to. I do absolutely love your videos! I'm in the process of watching every single one. 😊

[@lakeshiamills1454]

I've found a new channel to follow! I love biotope inspiration. It really helps me when I want to try to recreate a space for fish that I think they will thrive in. Especially looking forward to watching all of your other videos now! I have a pair of empire (emperor?) Gudgeons I'd like to attempt to breed. Maybe setting up a tank more representative of their natural habitat would be the best way to trigger breeding behavior.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for your support! I have a biotope aquarium for Empire Gudgeons on here, they are a beautiful long lived fish but can be hard to breed in captivity, getting them to spawn isn't the problem it feeding the fry, they are really small, a large well aged system with micro organisms in it is the best way to go like a established pond, they don't mind a bit of salt as well as they are found in abundance on the upper reaches of tidal areas, they are also found in true fresh but seem to be more abundant just above the salt or right on the line, Good luck it is an interesting challenge.

[@CircularDesign]

I wonder why this channel has 4k+ subs only. Awesome videos m8! Addition to my aquarium hobby! Cheers 😊 and greetings from Amsterdam.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I guess it may be because they had not much information on them other then what you could read, hopefully this will change now that I am narrating them, I'm happy you like it and welcome from Australia 🙂

[@davidrodgers8711]

That footage @ 6:17 👌

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes that is my favourite part to, to get the chance to capture a beautiful school of fish like that was awesome 🙂

[@cinemaipswich4636]

The lakes on both Stradbroke islands are "nested lakes". Only a thin layer of biomass lies between the water and the sand below. Please do not wade into the lake or its immediate shore.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

We didn't wade the lakes, I placed the camera in from the shore, it's a funny thing though as a kid I used to go there and you could drive right up to it and everyone used to swim in them, it's funny how things change, it's a shame there are so many Gambusia in there, they will do more damage then anything else.

[@ziender]

Beautiful landscapes. What drone was used?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

A Mavic Air 2

[@danizm78]

great video! what camera are you using?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! a GoPro 10 and 7

[@brannonevans3685]

I guess you guys have to constantly look out for salties.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

In certain creeks, in the cooler upper reaches of some of the creeks there it's pretty safe but in all the lower reaches yes.

[@Bigbashbang2]

no crocs there?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

No, there was an apparent sighting at the mangroves in that spot a little while ago but it still to this day hasn't been proven.

[@mattdread4994]

​@@australianbiotopes4563go and have a look at the picture in the Jimboomba Tavern. I believe it was also in the Stones Corner Hotel as they were owned by the same person. It's a HUGE CROC caught on the bend in the Logan River at North McClain near the bridge on the Mt Lindsay Hwy. My grandmother's brother owned a dairy farm on HOPE Island. I grew up around Oyster Point, Cleveland with my father running 1000 acres of Inghams farm on Woodlands drive, Thornlands.With a view worth millions of dollars looking out over Moreton Bay Islands and Sraddie. Unfortunately the Redlands AIN'T the Redlands I knew. Even out the back of Redland Bay is gone. People don't understand, we're not owners, we're CISTODIANS OF THE LAND!!!! We were told we were selfish too want to see the Redlands remain the same? BLOODY RABY BAY AND TOONDAH HARBOUR??? THEY ONLY JUST STOPPED WALKER CORPS VERSION OF TOONDAH HARBOUR RECENTLY. ENJOY IT WHILE YOU CAN???