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Not every one is cut out to be a guide. They are truly a bred apart. When working with groups of clients we still believe in the old adage, "the customer is always right". Guides can not have an off day. All our staff are talented, and experienced professionals, who constantly strive to improve their skills as a whole for the own professional development. Our Guides have the local knowledge, and the life experience to help you make the most of your vacation time. A tall order we know but that is our commitment to you.

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Charles Scott (Chuck) Owner and Tours Director

Born here in British Columbia, Canada, Chuck has always considered himself very fortunate to have been able to do some interesting things. After spending some time in the army at a very young age, he developed a certain taste for adventure. As a parachutist and fieldcraft instructor among other things, when he got out, one of the things that naturally seemed to fit was Smoke Jumping. (That is: parachute delivered fire fighters for the wilderness areas.)

He "jumped" in the Yukon Territory of Canada for a private company contracted to the Yukon Forest Service, fought fires in summer, in the winters traveled. Europe, Asia, the Middle East. One year camping in the Sinai Desert with a few friends, at the edge of the Red Sea, someone started raving about the reefs just off shore. So he borrowed a cracked snorkel, with a leaky mask, and ventured out over the edge of the reef. "One look and I was hooked." he says "It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen. Like a landscape out of dreams, the fish, the coral, the colour. Unbelievable!"

The next year he went back, and took his first diving course at a diving centre on the Red Sea. Liking it so much he took up as a professional. Within a few years he was finished teaching for dive centres and started my own little Scuba School in Vancouver, eventually, running my own dive charter boat.

About this time he got seriously into photography, underwater In the rain forests of the Amazon, you never know who you might meet. This little girl was handed into my arms as she was distracted elsewhere. Turning around to discover that it was a stranger in the house. Photo by Neil Hill that is. I did shoots in the Red Sea and the coast of Canada, and then found some things on land that started to look like they would make a good photo.

About then he developed an interest in wildlife photography, got out of diving and back into wild fire suppression. On a winter trip to a place I had always wanted to see, the Amazon Rainforest. Again he had one of those unforgettable experiences in the forest. Again he was hooked. Not to mention falling for a beautiful Brazilian woman, who became his wife a couple of years later.

Neila (pronounced nail-ah) and Chuck have been married for almost 25 years. With her help and the help of her family, most of which live in Belem at the mouth of the Amazon River, he has been admitted into Brazilian Society in a way that few foreigners ever are. Having led several photographic expeditions, and attempted to establish an Outward Bound School for Brazil he knows his way around this fascinating part of the world..

Going back to school and spent some very happy years as a Software Consultant in Vancouver. And became the proud father of a wonderful little boy called Nicolas.

Always the adventurer, the family decided to spend a few years in Brazil to give Nick a chance to get to know Brazil and his family there. Spending 2003-4 in Belem, and working full time as an Amazon rain forest guide. .

He is very comfortable in the wilderness in Canada or in Brazil, having spent so much time in both. My years in training remote access fire crews, and teaching diving students, as well as running a luxury charter boat and running photographic expeditions into the Amazon, has well equipped him for the role of host and guide.

Chuck's Favourite Tours

Banff and the Rocky Mountains

Nicolas Scott (Nick) - Chief Guide and
Junior Partner in Wild BC Tours and Guiding

Our chief guide is a multi lingual (English, Portuguese, and French) professional with five years experience in the industry, and a veteran of hundred of tours. A talented story teller he always adds a different dimension of fun, and has always been the star of the show on the tours he guides. His charming manner and enthusiastic, hard working attitude are the hallmarks of his style. While he enjoys working in the tourism field he also has plans for a career in Politics.

Nick's Favourite Tours

Neila Scott - General Manager and Guide

Neila was born in Brazil and lived there for the first 23 years of her life, Neila brings with her a life experience as colourful as the costumes that fill the streets of Brazil during Carnaval.

Brought up by a cardiologist, her mother was her main inspiration and role model. Growing up poor in a two-room house in the Amazonian city of Belem, her mother brought herself out of poverty by studying hard and becoming the first black doctor in the state of Para, in Northern Brazil..

In 1985 Neila met her prince charming, a Canadian from White Rock, British Columbia, who swept off her feet and brought her to live in British Columbia.

At the time she had already had 3 years of experience training adults in English as a Foreign Language. After settling in Canada she got back to university, graduating in Biology (Major in Genetics) from UBC.

While going to university she taught ESL at the local colleges, and soon after graduation landed a job training adults in a computer skills college.

Soon an opportunity presented itself for her to manage the training department for an American company operating in Richmond, and she took it, that's when she got the valuable experience training and coaching employees of large corporations and local government in BC.

In 2005 she helped Chuck establish Wild BC Tours and Guiding providing a whole new dimension in real world business experience.

Neila continues to teach in the off season and guide in the summer months, and has the experience, the passion and the friendly personality to coach, teach and host anyone to great success. See her training web site at FindingUp.ca.

Neila's Favourite Tours

Ron Long Guide at Large in his own words...

Many years ago and far, far away I graduated from the Photographic Arts program at Ryerson University. For thirty-six years I have been employed Ron Long Photography Workshops as a full time photographer at Simon Fraser University. For fifteen of those years I photographed exclusively for the Biological Sciences Department so I have a considerable amount of biology in my background and an abiding interest in nature photography. That is not to say I am strictly a nature photographer. Anything that will make a good picture is grist for my camera. The great thing about working for a university is that it requires a photographer to become proficient in fields as diverse as portraits of people to portraits of insects so small you can barely see them. My motto came to be "if you can see it I can photograph it" It's a toss up which was the greater challenge, the people or the insects.

Discovering photography in high school was serendipitous because it gave me not only a vocation but a life as well. To this day I do little that does not involve photography. In addition to my full time work I do freelance photography, I do photography for fun, I give presentations to photography clubs, I teach photography and I travel to interesting places to do photography. After forty years, photography is still as exciting as in the beginning and I continue to learn. Digital has begun the entire cycle again. I have taught photography classes for over thirty years and have come to enjoy the teaching as much as photography itself. I spend so many hours each month in the classroom that teaching photography has become an entire second career. I must be doing something right because my students regularly exceed me in expertise and creativity. One of my great joys is to watch this kind of development from snap shooter to highly competent photographer.

But getting back to what I can do for you. First and foremost I can offer you the most fun you have ever had with your camera. The energy generated by a group of enthusiastic photographer is enough to inspire anyone to exceed their own personal best and enjoy every minute of it. I can offer you exciting locations with endless photo opportunities. I can offer lectures and critiques to provide guidance, new techniques, ideas and encouragement that will expand your expertise by leaps and bounds. Finally I can offer my own unique combination of experience which will be available, one on one, whenever needed.

Ron's Favourite Tours

Wild BC Tours and Guiding Small Group Tours of Canada

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