Activities

Flying through the air at speed is loads of fun! In this activity, adventurers have a number of turns on our custom built flying fox traversing across a distance of nearly 100 meters. To allow as many turns as possible in the time-frame the groups on the ground work together to assist participants with dismounting and returning the gear for the next attempt.

Novice adventurers can experience the adrenaline rush of overhang abseiling on a 10m artificial wall. With a focus on your safety our qualified instructor will take you through a practical session on level ground instructing on:

• Fitting abseiling gear
• Correct use of roping equipment
• Basic skills & techniques

Abseiling can give you a fabulous sense of achievement while developing skills in:

• Personal confidence
• Accepting challenge
• Hand & body coordination
• Good safety techniques

Run alongside abseiling or crate climbing, adventurers can explore the rewarding and challenging experience of vertical climbing on our artificial rock wall going as high as they choose. Guidance is given on manoeuvres and correct climbing techniques which will assist your climb. Younger students can practice on the smaller wall while the more experienced can accept the challenge of our 10 metre rock wall. This is a great activity for body coordination, improving balance, flexibility and strength while learning and demonstrating the safety skills required for outdoor rock climbing.

Encouraging:

• Control & coordination
• Clear communication & listening skills
• Personal commitment to goals
• Building trust between climber & belay
• Exploration of stresses & emotions
• Cooperation
• Nurturing relationships
• Support & encouragement of others.

Designed for groups too young to abseil, Crate Climb adventurers build towers out of crates, so that they can safely climb the crates to reach the top of the abseil wall or as high as they would like to venture. Only one person climbs the structure at a time supported and encouraged to reach the goal by the team, who are also monitoring and stabilizing the structure. This activity builds a firm foundation for youngsters to help them achieve the bigger challenges in life while reinforcing the basic rules of safety in a game environment.

Promoting:

• Working together as a team
• Good communication skills
• Trust
• Confidence
• Understanding & managing emotions
• Social interaction
• Setting Goals
• Planning, reviewing & monitoring
• Decision making
• Preventing & managing conflict

Compete in a friendly competition and team building game on the archery course. Adventurers are taught the safety aspects and basic skills of archery. These new skills are then put into practice with small groups shooting at targets which are set at a range of distances and followed by a little friendly competition in teams  before taking these skills into action with a game of Archery Tag, where the aim is to tag your opponents until there is only one team left standing! As well as being a fun activity Archery will develop many aspects of self-management both as an individual and team player.

Experience archery in a safe and supervised environment; be educated on the basic rules and protocols of this challenging sport while developing:

• Control of the bow
• Hand eye coordination
• Effective shooting stances
• Risk management techniques

Adventurers will be driven from Dare Adventures down to the Murray River to learn and practice the basic skills involved in kayaking. Exploring:

• Leadership & partnership roles
• Water safety skills & environment awareness
• Conflict management
• Efficient communication
• Cooperation within a partnership

Participants will enjoy a leisurely paddle up and down the river and develop their new skills in a number of balancing games and obstacle races. Working as a team in the water environment budding kayakist will gain knowledge of:

• Balance and stability requirements
• Synchronisation techniques
• Effective paddling skills
• Workload sharing
• Responsible actions

Are you ready to tackle the challenges? The obstacle course takes you through our mud pit and dam which will fill each participant with a great sense of accomplishment as each goal is reached.

Our confidence course will tax adventurers as they take on the eleven obstacles testing:

• Fitness
• Balance
• Coordination
• Confidence

Adventurers will explore a variety of terrains on their 8 km bike-ride through state forest around Dwellingup, visiting area’s that were once destroyed by the 1961 fires. A stop-over in town at the Visitors Centre will give them an overview of the local timber mill industry and educate them on the effects of bushfires before heading back to camp. Through this excursion participants will learn to understand their body’s response to physical activity and how to become a healthy and safe mountain bike rider.

Enhancing:

• Support & encouragement of team
• Communication skills
• Risk management
• Techniques for off-road terrain
• Environment appreciation
• Meeting physical challenges

After learning the basic skills of pacing and compass reading, adventurers form groups to test their new skills in an exploration game. Teams locate codes and objects in a given time frame searching the surrounding bush of the camp property. To be an effective team, members learn to display skills in:

• Prioritising
• Effective communication
• Self-management
• Decision making

With a focus on working as a team these games have been developed to augment life skills to assist in problem solving. Campers compete in a variety of team building activities designed to stimulate thinking beyond the box. These brain teasers support the building of a positive working environment initiating:

• Trust & communication
• Group effort & cooperation
• Facilitating & decision making
• Leadership & partnerships

Working as a team, adventurers will design and build a raft from simple materials that can accommodate their group for a paddle around the dam. Enhancing skills in rope tying and designs that work the participants will cover many aspects of team building while planning, creating and assessing their creation.

Inspiring:

• Positive behavior
• Efficient teamwork
• Problem solving
• Effective listening & communication
• Responsible water safety

A 2km walk through the state forest surrounding the camp introduces campers to the many aspects of our local flora and fauna. During the bush activity, walkers will be shown native species of plants grown in their natural habitat and used for medicines and bush tucker by the indigenous Australians, introduced to history of the timber industry, and will participate in building a bush cubby from materials found on the forest floor.

These activities strengthen:

• Teamwork
• Environment awareness
• Leadership and partnership roles

Hire an instructor to take you bush walking and show you the sites or run the kids through the confidence course so they fall asleep early, leaving you to enjoy those Dwellingup nights in peace.

3 hour sessions from $300, send us an enquiry for more information.

BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL

Anyone aged 16+ can enjoy a game on our outdoor fields during their stay or book for a private game. Teams will battle it out on the fields, trying to outwit their opponents and secure victory.

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