Adventure tour operators Anthony O'Hern and Anna Paice never intended to become boat builders.
But soon after their company won a tender to provide boat tours on Dove Lake in Tasmania's iconic Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Mr O'Hern started hand-making timber kayaks.
"It wasn't a planned thing. We were just following our noses and before we knew it, that's what we were doing," he said.