The beauty of nature guiding
Bruny Island
It is my great joy and privilege to be a guide. I find that many of my guests tell me that it has been an important moment in their lives, of learning and taking things from the page into the real world as they spend time with me.
That's a very fulfilling thing for me to know. I also get to have the best job in the world and spend every day in nature, so it's win-win all around. I can't think why anyone would never want to be a guide because it's the best job ever.
Also I really value it when I go to other places and I hire other local guides. I can always recommend to people that they invest in a guide as part of their holiday, even if it's for a very short period of their holiday.
Try to hire a guide to just get under the skin of the place you're going, and learn a million things about the place that you wouldn't be able to without that person's passion and knowledge.
I think it is very possible to be enriched by the guide. You will see things that you hadn't seen, before because they are opening your eyes to things you may not have even considered before, and peeling the layers of the onion back.
They're helping you see how everything around you fits together, because there is no one-size-fits-all in nature. Everything is complex and interconnected but also so unique in every place you go.
The same plants and animals in one part of the country, in another part of the country may be interacting completely differently, whether due to weather systems or soil type or their local habitat changes by human intervention.
There will be something different about that place, and if you don't have someone locally who can help you just burrow through and see these amazing connections and start to get some of the answers, then you you don't ever quite see the full picture. You go away with only a surface layer. A guide gets you to get under the surface.
Cat Davidson
Ecology and Birding Tour Guide
It is my great joy and privilege to be a guide. I find that many of my guests tell me that it has been an important moment in their lives, of learning and taking things from the page into the real world as they spend time with me.
That's a very fulfilling thing for me to know. I also get to have the best job in the world and spend every day in nature, so it's win-win all around. I can't think why anyone would never want to be a guide because it's the best job ever.
Also I really value it when I go to other places and I hire other local guides. I can always recommend to people that they invest in a guide as part of their holiday, even if it's for a very short period of their holiday.
Try to hire a guide to just get under the skin of the place you're going, and learn a million things about the place that you wouldn't be able to without that person's passion and knowledge.
I think it is very possible to be enriched by the guide. You will see things that you hadn't seen, before because they are opening your eyes to things you may not have even considered before, and peeling the layers of the onion back.
They're helping you see how everything around you fits together, because there is no one-size-fits-all in nature. Everything is complex and interconnected but also so unique in every place you go.
The same plants and animals in one part of the country, in another part of the country may be interacting completely differently, whether due to weather systems or soil type or their local habitat changes by human intervention.
There will be something different about that place, and if you don't have someone locally who can help you just burrow through and see these amazing connections and start to get some of the answers, then you you don't ever quite see the full picture. You go away with only a surface layer. A guide gets you to get under the surface.
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We will often be sent a wish list by someone before they even arrive on Bruny Island, Inala Nature Tours guide Cat Davidson says of visiting bird-watchers. Nearly every single time the critically-endangered swift parrot or the endangered forty-spotted pardalote is high on the list.
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