ECO CHALLENGE

ECO CHALLENGE

During the course of a 5 day camp, students can cover up to 100kms. 2 canoe legs (approx 13km ea), cover the middle of Lake Cootharaba to Teerwah Landing all the way to the lower reaches of the Noosa River. Students also enjoy a morning of mountain biking to their designated abseil and rock climbing site then return by mountain bike to commence the next part of their circuit.

There are several other customizable challenges in the circuit that can include archery, team development, catapult challenge, raft building or even survival skills where the students learn more about the world around them and draw in on indigenous techniques of finding food, storing water, fire making and more.

The objective is to foster within each student, an appreciation, knowledge, values and skills necessary to inspire not only sound decisions and actions in their ecological environment but also in their team environment.

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ECO CHALLENGE OVERVIEW:

Dynamics

A Total Adventures instructor stays with each group for the whole week insuring safety, passing on instructions for each day, debriefing the group at the end of each day and generally overseeing the camp. Ultimately it is the student group itself that directs the journey, for example, the group is responsible for morale, in-camp management and housekeeping (meal preparation/cooking, hygiene, tidiness), time schedules and group organisation.

Accommodation

Tent camping.

Catering

Ration packs, student camp cooking.

About Cooloola National Park

North of Brisbane, between Noosa Heads and Rainbow Beach lies a part of the Great Sandy Region known as Cooloola National Park. Cooloola is a refuge for some of the world’s rarest plants and animals such as the Cooloola Acid Frog and Ground Parrot.

The park has one of the few remaining Emu populations in coastal Queensland. The region has many lakes including the worlds largest and highest perched dune lakes and contains the oldest and largest number of independent coastal dune systems recorded in the world, as well as the oldest known time sequence of soils (podzols) with giant profiles more than 25m thick.

It’s these rarities and natural beauty that makes Cooloola National Park the perfect destination for our Eco Challenge School Camp.