Garry Dean
Interpretive Guide
- Home Town: Kelowna, B.C., Canada
- Hobbies: Camping, hiking, fishing, skiing, traveling, kayaking, mountain biking
- Professional Memberships: Nature Conservancy, Hawaii Audubon
- Ask me About: Travel by bike in South East Asia, sailing from Austraila to Thailand
- Favorite thing about being a Guide: Sharing Hawaii’s native environment and meeting new and interesting people. Exploring, learning and seeing different things in the same place every day in the everchanging landscapes of the Big Island.
- Started Guiding: November 2000
- Favorite Place on the Big Island: More than one…Lone Palm Keawaiki, Hakalau, any high elevation Native Rain Forest, Waipunalei
- Biggest Accomplishment as an Interpretive Guide: Finding the Aki,the rarest forest bird on the Big Island, day after day after day also finding my first Happy face spider.
Garry is from Canada and one of those outdoor recreation dudes; kayaking, mountain biking, fishing, camping, and bicycle touring. He has a Geography B.A. from the University of Hawaii and also happens to be an accomplished chef. Garry’s a great all-around guide as well as one of our three birding tour guides, specializing in getting guests up close to Hawaii’s rare and fascinating native birds species.
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By Jan Allen on 2013/01/11
Garry was our guide for the Hakaleu NWR tour on January 8, 2013 and he was superb. We found all but one of our “target” birds, and he tried hard for that one. He is also knowledgeable about the forest ecology, which put the birds into context. You don’t have to be a birder to enjoy this tour. What a privilege to be able to hike and explore the Hakaleu National Wildlife Refuge, a restricted area not open to the general public.
Jan Allen
By Steve and Ann Reynolds on 2011/06/02
Aloha! We were on vacation with our friends, our FIRST trip to Hawaii, and had the opportunity to take the Waterfall tour. Garry was our guide and he made it such a memorable event!!! He was very knowledgable, funny, great with the kids, and patient. He definitely loves what he does and it showed in the tour, which made us love it too! Thanks, Hawaii-Forest and Trail, for a great tour… and special thanks to Garry for sharing your passion with us! We were SAFE, we had FUN, and we CONNECTED! :O)
By Julie on 2010/10/12
Garry is a great guide
By Gum Design on 2010/10/12
Great Tour