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.

OBJECTIVE
Objective is to foster with each student the appreciation, knowledge, values and skills necessary to inspire not only sound decisions and actions in their ecology environment but also in their team environment.

SNAP SHOT
Each group of 20 students has a different start point, rotating around the circuit in opposite directions only meeting up with one other group at an allocated camp site each evening.  During the course of one week, students cover one hundred kilometers. 

Dromedarian camels are used to travel a 15km stretch of beach, one of only 4 beach routes by camels in Australia.   Two canoe legs, approximately 25km cover the top of Lake Cootharaba to Harry’s Hut and Elanda Point to the lower reaches of the Noosa River.  Students also enjoy a morning of mountain biking to their designated abseil and rockclimbing site, returning by mountain bike to commence the next part of their circuit.  Other challenges are used to complete the circuit such a river crossing where students are issued with several items that need to be constructed combined with the problem solving/lateral thinking skills of the group to safely ferry each person across.  Students, equipped with a topography map and a compass must also navigate a 25km leg of the circuit.

GROUP 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 the general overseeing of the camp. Ultimately it is the student group it self 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 organization.

ACCOMMODATION
A combination of tent camping, swags, hoochies and dormitory accommodation is used.

CATERING
Ration packs, own camp cooking

LOOKING AFTER THE PARK
Total Adventures uses the philosophy of what is easy to take may take years to replace.

Litter

We use products with lightweight, crushable packaging (e.g. aluminium cans)
We take our rubbish with us when we leave the park

• We use products with lightweight, crushable packaging (e.g. aluminium cans)
• We take our rubbish with us when we leave the parke
• We reduce the bulk — flatten what we can when using rubbish bins
• We avoid  burning or bury rubbish;
• We keep rubbish in sealable containers until we can get to a bin;
• WeLock up food and rubbish from animals - do not hang rubbish bags from trees or tents.

Lakes And Waterways

• We do not use soap, sunscreen, toothpaste or detergent in lakes or waterways
• We have designated dish washing areas well away from waterways

Native Animals

• We do not encourage feeding native animals food