Can you share a memorable or unique guest experience?
TC: We did a Talking Trees tour during the fall one year, and this is the season when the snowberry comes out. This berry is known to help with warts and blemishes, and many of our Indigenous women use it when they get a blemish. A woman on our tour had been suffering from warts her whole life and she was very self-conscious of it, so we shared this teaching of the snowberry. A few weeks later, we received an email from her thanking us — She had used the snowberry on her hands and all her warts were coming off. I was so happy that the teachings from our tour helped her, and I still think about it to this day.
What's your favorite part about Talaysay Tours?
TC: What I love most is the fact that I've grown up with this company — I’m the same age as Talaysay Tours, which started in 1998, and I've been growing along side it with my mother. I remember when we first started on the Sunshine Coast, it was actually a kayak company, and we would do Indigenous kayak tours at Porpoise Bay Provincial Park. We couldn’t afford a babysitter so I would join my mom on these tours. That's something that I love and I'm also grateful that I get to work with my family, including my cousin, Seraphine, who also run tours.
