About Us

Port to Peak Travel is co-owned by Jos Bauk and Anna Bulleid, who between them have worked for over 50 years in the travel industry. Both are passionate travellers with firsthand experience and knowledge in over 100 countries, with a particular love for remote and niche destinations. We pride ourselves on our personalised service and unparalleled expertise and are here to help guide you through the multitude of different travel options and find the perfect fit. We have established close working relationships with industry partners over decades and along with our personal knowledge ensure you get the best value and service when creating your trip of a lifetime. Whether you are after an African safari; exploring Antarctica on a small ship expedition voyage; hiking the Inca Trail; small group touring or a fully customised itinerary, we’re here to make your dream a reality.

Jos Bauk

Co-Owner of Port to Peak, Jos has over 25 years experience in the Travel Industry  and has travelled to all seven continents and over 85 countries around the globe. Exploring remote mountains, jungles, seas and reefs of the world is a strong passion.

He has sailed throughout the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas. In 1994 he completed a Trans–Atlantic crossing from the Canary Islands to St Lucia in 21 days aboard a 43 foot ketch participating in The ARC, the largest trans-ocean sailing event in the world.

 Small Ship expedition cruising experiences include sea kayaking on a centennial voyage tracing the route of the Swedish Explorer Otto Nordenskjöld in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Other notable voyages include sailing the islands of the Seychelles, the glacial fjords of southern Chile, a wildlife expedition of the Galapagos Islands and a liveaboard diving circumnavigation of the island of Pemba from Zanzibar.

  • Favourite dive trips include the vertical reefs of Sipadan in Malaysia, cage diving with Great Whites near Cape Town and the famous Blue Hole in the atolls of Belize.

    A keen surfer Jos has surfed the reefs of the Indonesian archipelago from Timor to Sumatra, as well as iconic plus some little known breaks of  Canary Islands, West & South Africa, Colombia, Mexico, Hawaii and Nicaragua amongst others.

    In the mountains he has visited Nepal numerous times and has trekked over remote high passes in both the Annapurna and Everest regions. 

    Jos has climbed to the top of three of the world’s Seven Summits: Kilimanjaro  (5 895 m) via three different routes, as well as summiting Aconcagua (6 962 m) and Elbrus (5 642m), the highest mountains in South America and Europe.  He has also trekked and climbed mountains in diverse areas such as Ethiopia, Bosnia, Borneo, Guatemala, Peru and volcanoes in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

    Jungle time has included trekking the Kokoda Track in both wet & dry season, the Headhunters Trail in Sarawak and spotting wildlife in the biologically diverse old growth Pacific forest of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica.

    Having travelled overland from Santiago de Chile to San Diego in the USA, Jos has a special affinity with all things Latin America and has visited South and Central America many times since.

     With family in Croatia, Jos has travelled extensively throughout the country and in fact has twice escorted groups on his personally designed Via Dinarica trekking trip through the Dinaric Alps that link the Balkan countries of  Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania & Kosovo.

    Now having a young teenager, Jos enjoys nothing more than travelling with his wife and showing his son all the adventures the world has to offer. Already these include staying in a treehouse in a remote portion of the Amazon in Northern Peru. Likewise softer adventure stays (!) for the family of a number Club Med Resorts around the globe.

    Having constructed them for many years, Jos has an in-depth knowledge of creating specialised air routings especially Premium Economy and Business Class itineraries and sees it as a personal challenge to get the best saving possible on an airfare!

     Jos commenced work as an Adventure Consultant in 1998 within the retail office of Peregrine Adventures in WA where he worked for 22 years. Just prior to the onset of COVID, Jos attended the Travel Industry NTIA Awards in Sydney where he was nominated as Adventure Consultant of the Year in Australia for 2019.

    With the halt of international travel during the COVID pandemic, Jos worked with the Australian operator Inspiration Outdoors where he handled the Karijini and Cape to Cape portfolios which he enjoyed immensely. With the re-opening of international travel Jos is happy to be back doing what he loves…helping clients with their own special adventures around the world.

Anna Bulleid

Co-owner of Port to Peak Travel, Anna has over 30 years’ experience in the travel industry, from wholesale, to retail and tour leading. She has explored over 70 countries and all seven continents, some many times over. Anna is passionate about wilderness, wildlife and ancient civilisations and loves to seek out unique off the beaten track experiences for both herself and her clients.       

Anna’s lifelong love of travel started in her mid-teens when her Mum took her overseas for the first time to Hong Kong and China. After completing her travel consulting certification in 1990, Anna headed to Europe where she worked as a site rep. for Contiki in Switzerland in the picture postcard village of Lauterbrunnen, followed by a season as a tour leader with Top Deck Travel. This allowed her to travel extensively throughout the UK and Europe including the Scandinavian counties.

  • On returning to Perth, Anna worked as a retail travel consultant with Flight Centre before itchy feet got the better of her and she headed to Africa in 1994 for a two-month overland camping trip from Kenya to Zimbabwe. Carrying on to South America, she spent 3 months backpacking, exploring the diverse countries of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru.

    Africa had well and truly captured her heart and she returned to the continent and spent the next three years working as a tour leader with Kumuka Expeditions, leading groups on camping tours ranging from 2 - 9 weeks in duration, between east and southern Africa. She guided groups through a multitude of wildlife parks, trekked on many occasions to the Mountain Gorillas, canoed and rafted the Zambezi River and camped in wild “off the grid” locations.

    In 1997 Anna joined the team in the Perth office of Adventure World Travel, a wholesale company specialising in tailor made holidays around the globe, as their Africa reservations consultant.

    In 2000 she returned to the world of retail travel, joining Peregrine Travel Centre WA as an international adventure consultant.  Over the next 20 years she was able to continue her love affair with Africa, creating unique safaris and escorting small private groups annually to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and beyond. Her travels were not confined to just Africa, visiting China, Vietnam, Cambodia, South East Asia, India, Madagascar and more.

    A first visit to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia & Antarctica in 2004 had her hooked on small ship expedition cruising and the icy regions of our planet.  Trips over the following decade took in the Canadian North West Passage, Svalbard, Iceland, the Shetlands, Orkney’s and Faroe Islands, including return visits to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.  Highlights; King Penguins in their hundreds of thousands, polar bears and puffins. Although far from the poles, Baja California and the Sea of Cortez stood out as highlights in 2016 and 2019 when Anna travelled on a small vessel whale watching. Highlight: face to face with grey whales and their calves and rubbing their noses – their skin feels like a hard-boiled egg.

    A love of ancient civilisations, saw her travel over the years to Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran and the Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, with their intertwined histories and truly spectacular architecture.

    Anna has also travelled a number of times to South and Central America, highlights include trekking in Torres del Paine, exploring the Atacama Desert in Chile, photographing the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands and Amazon jungle and walks in search of birds and sloth in Costa Rica.

    In December 2019, just before the world and the travel industry entered a forced hiatus under Covid-19, Anna escorted a group of clients on Heritage Expeditions “Galapagos of the Southern Ocean’, visiting the Australian and New Zealand Sub-Antarctic islands, of Snares, Auckland, Campbell and Macquarie. This spectacular trip is a photographer and ornithologists dream come true and definitely counted as one of Anna’s favourite trips, of which there are many.

    Anna has just returned in mid-March from a three-week photographic and wildlife trip in the south-west of India, where she travelled from Kochi to Bengaluru through a mountain range known as the Western Ghats. This area is a bio-diversity hot-spot, containing a large portion of the country’s flora and fauna, much of it endemic to the area and both culturally and scenically to different to Rajasthan in the north of the country that Anna had visited previously.

    Anna believes travel makes us better people. Travel is knowledge, it teaches respect and acceptance of different cultures and ideas and most importantly an appreciation of what we have. An adventure is whatever we make of it. It can be exploring a souk in Morocco, or sailing on a small expedition vessel through the Bellot Straight in the North West Passage and at Port to Peak Travel we love creating the ultimate adventure for our clients, no matter the destination or style of travel.