Meet Your Guides
The guide IS the experience. Our guides aren't just drivers, they're naturalists, storytellers, and safety professionals who turn a day trip into a lifelong memory.
David Lyons
Founder & Tour Curator
Founder & Tour Curator
My background is genuinely mixed: healthcare across hospitals and community settings, twenty years running an IT business, teaching student nurses in clinical settings. None of it was a straight line to running tours in a rainforest. But it gave me something useful. I know how to stay calm when things don't go to plan, build systems that work, and recognise the difference between someone who genuinely knows their subject and someone who doesn't. I came to the Wet Tropics and fell in love with it. Kuranda Tours & Transfers is an Accredited Operator because we wanted to do this seriously, not casually.
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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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