Meet Your Guides
The guide is the experience. Both are practising naturalists with deep field experience - Clayton in birding, Les in rainforest ecology and bush food.
Photo: Jon Westaway
David Lyons
Guide & Host
Operations & Logistics
Bookings, logistics, and the calm voice when plans shift. David also runs Kuranda Day Tours, a long-established and highly regarded local operation. A keen recent birder with skin in the game, and on every tour.
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Clayton Smith
Wet Tropics Naturalist Guide
Birding & Wildlife
20 years guiding birding and wildlife expeditions in the Wet Tropics. Diploma in Wildlife Management. Fluent English and German.
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Les Anwyl
Botanist & Nature Guide
Botany & Wet Tropics Ecology
Decades in Kuranda, deep knowledge of bush foods, traditional plant knowledge, and rainforest ecology.
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