Amazing Larry's Snakey Days Adventure Tours

Naturalist guide in the tropical rainforest

Your Guide

Meet Amazing Larry

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Lars — "Amazing Larry" to anyone who's spent more than five minutes with him — has been roaming the rainforests, creek beds, and cane fields around Cairns for the better part of three decades. He'll tell you he's a "scientist," though his credentials are more aggressively self-taught than formally awarded.

What he lacks in framed certificates he more than makes up for in genuine obsession. Ask him about any snake in Far North Queensland and he'll talk for forty-five minutes. Ask him about the flora and he'll talk for an hour. He has never, to anyone's knowledge, been wrong about either.

His tours are small, personal, and genuinely unforgettable. Equal parts education, adventure, and stand-up comedy.

✦ 30+ years field experience in FNQ ecosystems

✦ Expert in Australian reptiles, mammals, and tropical botany

✦ Zero snake-related incidents involving guests (Larry's fingers are another story)

✦ First aid certified, satellite phone carried on all remote walks

The Expeditions

Choose Your Adventure

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All tours depart from Cairns CBD. Small groups of 2–8 people. Larry drives, Larry guides, Larry tells the stories.

Signature Tour

The Daintree Deep Dive

Full Day • 8 Hours • Small Group

A full day into the oldest tropical rainforest on Earth. Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Larry knows every track, every python's favourite branch, and where the cassowaries come down to drink. Lunch included — Larry makes a legendary damper.

AUD $195 / person

After Dark

Snakey Nights

Evening • 3 Hours • Very Torch-Dependent

The rainforest comes alive after sunset. Amethystine pythons hunting. Green tree frogs everywhere you look. Brush-tailed possums. Sugar gliders. The odd cane toad (Larry will explain why that's a problem). Headlamps provided.

AUD $110 / person

Fan Favourite

Creek & Croc Country

Half Day • 4 Hours • Morning Departure

Freshwater crocs, mangroves, and the remarkable plants that survive in saltwater. Larry will show you which plants the traditional custodians used for medicine, food, and tools — with deep respect for that knowledge. No swimming. Larry is firm on that one.

AUD $130 / person

Botanical Focus

Tablelands Ramble

Full Day • 9 Hours • Mild Elevation

Up onto the Atherton Tablelands — cooler air, waterfalls, crater lakes, and a completely different ecosystem than the coast. Platypus at dawn if you're lucky. Larry is always lucky. Wallabies at Yungaburra. Ancient fig trees with enough personality to have names.

AUD $220 / person

Land + Sea

Reef to Rainforest

Full Day • 10 Hours • Everything

The grand tour. Morning on the reef, afternoon in the rainforest — two World Heritage sites in a single day. Larry partners with a reef operator for the boat portion; he handles the bush. This is the one people fly to Cairns specifically for.

AUD $310 / person

Bespoke

Larry's Private Expedition

Your Schedule • Your Focus • Just You

Private, fully customised tour for 1–4 people. Tell Larry what you're passionate about — botany, herps, birds, photography, all of it — and he'll design a day around exactly that. The most flexible, most personal, and most Larry experience available.

From AUD $450 / group

Field Reports

What the Expeditioners Say

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Larry picked up a carpet python off the track, showed it to us for five minutes — explained its diet, its breeding cycle, the camouflage strategy — then put it back exactly where it had been. My kids still talk about it three years later."

Fiona & Marcus T.

Melbourne, Victoria

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"I'm a botanist with a PhD and Larry taught me things I didn't know. His knowledge of the medicinal and food plants in the Daintree is extraordinary. Whatever he charges, it should be more."

Dr. Sarah K.

University of Queensland

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"He found a platypus. He FOUND A PLATYPUS. 'Oh I know where they are,' he said, like it was nothing. Coolest moment of my life. Book this man. Book him immediately."

Tom & Aiko R.

Tokyo, Japan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"The Snakey Nights tour was honestly terrifying in the best possible way. Larry is equal parts wildlife guide and stand-up comedian. That man has a gift. And his damper bread? Life-changing."

Brendan O.

Dublin, Ireland

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"We hired Larry for a bespoke private tour focused on herps and photography. He found us six snake species in one afternoon. SIX. And he knew every single one by name — scientific and common. Absolutely exceptional."

Daniel V.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

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"My mother is 74. She walks slowly. Larry was patient, kind, kept the pace perfect, and made sure she saw everything. She says it was the highlight of her trip to Australia. He's just a genuinely good person who loves what he does."

Christine & Eleanor P.

Vancouver, Canada

Get In Touch

Ready to Find Something Amazing?

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Larry keeps his phone on him in the field — he'll get back to you same day. Groups of 8+ should enquire at least two weeks ahead. Solo and small group bookings can often be accommodated within a few days.

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Phone / WhatsApp +61 4XX XXX XXX

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Email larry@snakeydays.com.au

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Departure Point Cairns CBD — exact meeting point confirmed on booking

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Season Year-round. Wet season (Nov–Apr) has its own magic — Larry loves it.

Amazing Larry's
Snakey Days
Adventure Tours

Meet Amazing Larry