Mike was raised and educated in England. Born to a Swiss French mother and an English father, he has lived in Canada and Greece, where he skippered luxury charter yachts. This life also took him to the West Indies and Micronesia before eventually ending up in Queenstown, New Zealand. Since 1992 Mike has been actively involved in the local tourism industry in Queenstown as a professional guide and business owner. He brings his wealth of local and international knowledge to this new venture. He is also fluent in French.
Rob McCrostie
Guide
There are very few people that don't know Rob in this town and his affable and easygoing nature opens a lot of doors. He was a Heliski Guide, Ski Instructor, Bungy jump master and is now sharing his extensive local knowledge with visitors to this region as a professional driver/guide for Black.
Nick Clark
Fishing Guide
Nick is a professional fly fishing guide with extensive experience and knowledge of the area to custom tailor the perfect trip. Whether that means hiking through beautiful country to secret spots or flying by helicopter into fly fishing paradise. It is a testament to him that his clients come back again and again and would go with no one else. There are very few fly fishermen who would not improve their technique after a day out with Nick.
Judy McKenzie
Guide
Judy has escorted walking groups throughout New Zealand and has an intimate knowledge of the history, culture and attractions of the country. She holds concessions enabling her to offer personal hiking trips to some of the Southern Lakes most scenic wilderness areas. She is well known in the industry as a top personal guide with a wealth of experience dealing with sophisticated and well travelled visitors.
Lyndal Willis
Guide
Lyndal Willis is a long term local of Arrowtown and is partner to local artist and playwright David John. Lyndal has extensive knowledge of the Gibbston Valley wineries having working in several over the years. Lyndal is well connected with the local artists both here in the Wakatipu but also in the wider Central Otago region.
Oliver Ramanoel
Guide
Oliver has lived in many countries including France, UK, Spain, Venezuela, Holland and travelled extensively in Asia, Oceania and North & South America. Oliver speaks English, French and Spanish and has amazing knowledge of Queenstown and Central Otago.
Malcolm Anngow
Guide
Malcolm Anngow has had a number of years experience as a driver/ guide in the Queenstown, Arrowtown and Central Otago region of NZ.
He has a passion for the scenery and attractions around these stunning areas of our country. He has had vast experience in driving the outback trails of Skippers Canyon and gold settlement of Macetown.
His wife's descendants were gold miners in that area and he can relay in detail a lot of the early history if you go on any of our luxury 4wd tours with him.
Nigel Hawke
Guide
Nigel was born and raised in Wellington. After completing university he moved to Japan to extend his knowledge of the Japanese culture and language. Living there for thirteen years helped attain this goal, but a desire to bring his children up in a more natural environment caused him to return to NZ, and settle in Queenstown. His experience explaining the various beautiful aspects of New Zealand to friends and acquaintances while overseas allowed Nigel to establish himself as a well known bi-lingual driver/guide.
Duncan has worked in the UK and Queenstown as a Police officer. He has been trained on the professional police driver program, achieving Gold standard the highest standard in the NZ police force. Duncan is qualified in high speed response driving, skid management and has trained as a winter ice/snow driver amongst many other things. He is trained in unarmed defensive techniques and conflict resolution. Whilst working in the UK Duncan was involved in escorting VIP's for the police force.
Peter Archibald
Guide
Pete could be best described as a sophisticated hunter gatherer. His outdoor skills are legendary. It matters not a jot whether you put him in the bush, on the water or indeed under it; he will invariably come back with something to eat. To cap it all, he also knows how to cook everything he catches.
His past occupations reveal the depth and breadth of his experience. He has at various times owned a deer farm in Southland, the Hollyford Walking Track and the Lodge at Martins Bay, Off the Rails which offers assisted bike tours along the Central Otago Rail Trail, to mention just a few. On top of that he is a fixed wing pilot a yacht skipper on the Pembroke, a charter yacht based in Fiordland, a partner in a whitebait stand on the West Coast and an all round good Kiwi bloke.
His knowledge of the South Island and the back country is second to none and coupled with is friendly affable nature, makes him the perfect guide.
Rodger Crow
Guide
Roger Crow was born in Winton & raised on a Farm in Mid Canterbury.
Roger is a familiar face in Queenstown having worked in the local tourism Industry since 1988. He is a renowned back country river guide originally with Dart River Jet and then 10 years at the Helm of Waiatoto River Safaris at Haast. He has a passion for the outdoors and the environment as well as an extensive knowledge of the Southern Lakes and the South Island of NZ.
During the last 10 years Roger has wintered in Queenstown working various driving roles and is a very experienced operator in all conditions particularly "wintertime night driving".
A mechanically minded performance and luxury car enthusiast with a can do kiwi attitude!
