Nature Travel Specialists
nature tours & travel, wildlife tours, adventure
travel and general travel to Australia, Southeast Asia, South America
and Alaska
OUR GUIDES
Jonathon Munro lives on Warrigal,
an area of regenerating and old rainforest he and his wife own near
Ravenshoe, North Queensland. Jonathon is a superb guide with k Denise Goodfellow - well, here's
what she has to say about herself: "Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
has had a career path 'like a mad dog's dinner,' rangin
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across a surprising range of disciplines. In addition to being able
to identify mammals at night just by their eyeshine characteristics,
Jonathon is an expert birder, and can create a complete rainforest
birding list by ear alone. Since 1987 Jonathon has led over 3000 excursions
into the highland rainforest to observe nocturnal wildlife, including
Audubon societies and the BBC Natural History Unit, museum, universities
and zoos. As well as Australia, Jonathan has traveled extensively
to observe wildlife in Africa, Borneo, China, Mongolia, USA, Canada,
the Arctic, Southeast Asia, New Zealand, Polynesia and
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from music teacher and buffalo shooter to biologist, guide, lecturer,
cross-cultural consultant, author, and illustrator. A member of the
Kunwinjku peoples of NW Arnhem Land, she is the family snake-catcher
and a dab hand at catching pigs with a castnet! She also mediates
in times of family trouble. Lawungkurr, a name given to her by the
clan matriarchs is the name of a long-dead but still highly honoured
woman of her clan. In 2000 Denise was contracted to work as interpreter/transcriber
on the Lonely Planet's Guide to Aboriginal Australia. Denise also
lectures in environmental studies for the University of New South
Wales' summer school." In between all this she became an excellent
birder, painter (the one of the Hooded Parrot is hers) and contributor
to the Gouldian Finch Recovery Plan. Finally, she has written the
definitive book on the 
Damon
Ramsey is based in North Queensland, Australia. Damon has
traveled many of the natural areas of the world in pursuit of his
interest in wildlife. In Australia he guides in the north, from Queensland
across to the Kimberley, Western Australia. As well as being an expert
birder, and in addition to his guiding, Damon has worked in the field
on bandicoots, bats, frogs, goannas and the rare and ancient tree
Ididospermum. In the field Damon takes great care to ensure
his clients are well-looked after, and he can cook up a great breakfast
out of almost nothing if required. Damon has written two extensive
educational guides to Queensland natural history, used on his educational
school and college tours. Damon leads many of our multi-day tours
all over Australia, and is our main guide for school and college groups.
Alan
Gillanders is a local Tablelander who grew up on western
Cape York Peninsula. His interest in natural history has been life
long. While earning his living as a teacher Alan lead botanical, geological
and birding tours for various local, interstate and international
interest groups and operators; he's now guiding full time. Alan has
been a national park volunteer for a decade, leading many public activities
including spotlighting tours. Alan's wealth of amusing stories stem
from personal experience, illustrating his points about the plants
and animals you see. Alan is our primary guide for custom day trips
on the Atherton Tablelands, North Queensland, Australia.
Del
Richards has been birding for over forty years, all over
Australia, and lives at Julatten, North Queensland. He knows his "patch"
intimately, and follows and logs bird activity on every tour, and
just daily as he birds for fun. This knowledge allows Del to find
target species for birders, as well as provide a comprehensive morning
or full day's birding - over half of Australia's species have been
recorded with 200km of his home.
What
can we say? This is a lady who can recognize wild koalas by looking
at their poop dried on the ground. We don't mean koala in general,
we mean individuals. Takes great pride in a board with koala scats
arranged and mounted tastefully on it. Also happens
to be an excellent artist, naturalist, researcher and bushwoman. You
can see Janine talking about koalas in a 
Paul has been active in the Australian birding scene for many years
both as an avid observer and keen wildlife photographer. He has a
close association with the Orange-bellied Parrot Recovery Team searching
for these endangered birds on the Australian mainland and monitoring
them at their breeding grounds in the wild south west of Tasmania.
Special interests include migratory waders, raptors and birds of the
mallee. Paul has also assisted in several research expeditions including
a stint in the mallee successfully searching for Black-eared Miners
and Red-lored Whistlers. He is a member of Birds Australia, Bird Observation
and Conservation Australia and a past Secretary of Birds Australia
(Victoria).