Geoffrey Gomes Birding & Naturalist Tours

These tours incorporate many of the “Birding Tours” itineraries that can be viewed on the Birding Tours Page on this website. Naturalist tours are custom designed according to specific interest, time of year and endurance levels. Some of the naturalist tours offered are as follows:

The Bush Bush Sanctuary

Highlights – Red Howler and Weeping Capuchin Monkeys, Red-bellied Macaws and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks.

This is a very early start for the long drive to the East coast, birding along the way to the Nariva Swamp. Here we board a small dinghy and make our way through Red Mangroves and Bloodwood trees toward an opening vista of a sea of herbaceous reeds that hide an assortment of duck and wader species. Fringing these reeds are stands of Moriche and Cabbage Palms, habitat for Red-bellied Macaws, Bat Falcon and Savanna Hawk. We then arrive at Bush Bush Island, an elevated section of the swamp to begin our forest walk. Here we are on the look out for Red Howler and Weeping Capuchin Monkeys, Silvered Antbird and Black-crested Antshrike.

Level of difficulty: Easy

Rates: $100-120.00 USD
Minimum 2 persons.
Group rates available.

Food: Included.

Grande Riviere – North Coast Trinidad.

The Leatherback Turtles at Grande Riviere are now famous after being featured on David Attenborough’s “Life in Cold Blood” series. During the nesting season between March – August, we visit this beach to experience a close encounter with the largest of the marine turtles, the Leatherback. This tour can be experienced in one day/night but will entail a late arrival back to your hotel because the beach is quite a long drive from the nearest town and, since turtles usually nest at night, we may not be leaving the beach any earlier than 9:00PM. This tour can also incorporate viewing of Trinidad’s only endemic bird, the Trinidad Piping Guan, but this will require an overnight stay at a lodge on the coast.

Level of difficulty : Easy

Rates -same day: : $ 90.00USD

Overnight accommodation : $160.00USD per person (based on double occupancy) plus meals.
Group rates available.

Mt. Tamana – Central Range Hills.

This hike leads us to the highest point of Trinidad's Central Range of hills, through lovely rainforest with an abundant scattering of huge Ficus and Silk Cotton trees. Red Howler Monkeys may be encountered along with Gray Hawks, Yellow-rumped Caciques and all three species of Hermit hummingbird. Tamana is famous for its bat cave, and we stop at the mouth of the Tamana cave on our way back to witness the emergence of hundreds of thousands of insect-eating and fruit-eating bats, an experience that is sure to amaze anyone with a love of wildlife. Even tour guests who have had negative feeling toward bats in the past have experienced a change of heart after this one of a kind jungle spectacle.

Level of difficulty: Moderately strenuous

Rates: $100.00USD per person, minimum 2. Group rates available.

Picnic meals: Included.

Cumaca Forest & Cave.

This is a very interesting hike through second growth jungle that leads to the Cumaca Cave. This cave is actually the source of the Oropuche River which emerges underground at the terminal siphon of the cave. The Cumaca Cave is home to the largest colony of Oilbirds in Trinidad, an estimated 400 individuals. This cave is still as remote as it was when former American President Theodore Roosevelt visited it in 1917.

Highlights: Oilbirds, Gray-headed Kite, Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant & Black-throated Mango.

Level of difficulty: Moderately strenuous

Rates : $100USD per person, minimum 2. Group rates available.

Picnic meals : Included.

Guests experience the famous Tamana Cave Bat emergence