Sunshine Coast and Magnetic Island Camp
Our camp programs focus on developing a child’s love for the outdoors through challenging and fun activities – from SUP boarding, abseiling, to archery, hut and raft building, bushwalks, orienteering, bush Skills and much more!
Apex Camp is an important place for students to build life skills, relationships (both with their peers and teachers), independence and resilience. Our award-winning camp programs are catered towards cultural and indigenous awareness, environmental consciousness and sustainability.
Apex Camps Magnetic Island offers more than 20 awesome outdoor adventure activities for you to choose from!
Apex Camps Magnetic Island offers more than 20 awesome outdoor adventure activities for you to choose from!
Take advantage of our tropical island location, with kayaking, raft building, stand up paddle boarding, reef tours and more! Or step outside of your comfort zone by abseiling off the island's amazing rock formations!
We also run a lot of popular onsite activities, including catapults, archery, team builders and radio rogaine, along with some fabulous supervised night activities to keep your group entertained all evening.
Each activity session is 1 hour and 30 minutes, with the exception of abseiling (3 hours), reef tours (half day), and Townsville activities (2-3 hours).
Total of up to 8 activity sessions plus 2 supervised night activities over a standard 3 day/2 night camp (for day visits, up to 3 activities).
Stinger suits available for daily hire for water and beach activities (up to 40 suits are available and must be pre booked prior to your camp). Please note: Stinger suits are compulsory for all water and beach activities during stinger season (typically November to May). At all other times, a stinger suit is highly recommended, or at a minimum a long sleeved sun shirt/rashie top and a pair of stockings.
Having trouble deciding on a suitable activity program? Let us help you tailor a program to suit your desired outcomes.
We will give you the freedom to participate at a level that suits you, in a supportive and encouraging environment. We just ask you to step outside your comfort zone, get active and have fun!!
Apex Camps programs are designed to meet specific individual group outcomes, offering a range of adventure-based activities, with an emphasis on delivering learning outcomes, participation and leadership through relevant and engaging experiential practices.
Individual student outcomes include:
Experiential learning practises
Accountability and discovering one’s own potential
To value being outdoors and the importance it plays in our mental health and well-being
Development of confidence and resilience
Personal Achievement
Team Building & Leadership
Find yourself close to the characteristic granite boulders while steadily abseiling down the rock. Face your fears and step out of your comfort zone in a controlled and safe environment with one-on-one support. remember, before we can abseil down, you must climb up first!
Sustainability
Personal Development
The traditional owners of Magnetic Island are the Wulgurukaba, canoe people who canoed from the mainland across to the island. Experience this part of history by kayak. Paddle across the coastline, covered in granite boulders and pine trees. you watch the tide rolling out, crabs scrambling over the rocks, coral that briefly sees daylight before the water covers everything again. Don't forget to look up and spot the eagles and kites circling above you.
Leadership Development
Personal Development
Sustainability
Learn how to persist with a challenge when failures transpire, reflect on processes and consider alternate perspectives. Work in a team to create the most seaworthy raft, with limited resources. It's a test of creativity, determination and teamwork. After the hard work is over, it's time to put the rafts in the water and see if they float.
Team Development
Leadership Development
Sustainability
Enjoy Magnetic Island from the water. Balance in your board and paddle on the blue waters watching for turtles and eagle rays. Paddle quickly in a game of SUP Tag, the person who is "it" will be trying to tag you. or why not trying to do some yoga on your board? If standing up is not your thing, sitting, lying, lying, or kneeling is also possible!
Personal Development
Sustainability
Being part of the World Heritage listed Great Barrier Reef is one of the reasons that makes Magnetic Island a very special place. Walk into the blue waters from the beach, slide on your fins and put on a mask and snorkel: You are ready to explore the coral, giant clams and reef fish that's living below the surface!
Personal Development
Sustainability
Take aim, shoot, fire and discover the art of a true archer!
Archery activity will cultivate confidence through the development of fine motor skills and setting personal challenges, while also touching on the cultural and historical aspects of the sport.
Personal Development
Leadership Development
Learn the skill of archery whilst playing a variety of energetic games. Score points by hitting players of the opposing team with your padded arrow and eliminate the players. Transform into a Bowerbird and gather blue object to bring back to your nest but be aware of the crows, they try to steal the blue treasures off you!
Team Development
Personal Development
Beach Games will foster initiative in a team environment to achieve a common goal, applying strategic thinking and communication. With short walk to the beach nearby, this is a great selection for groups travelling from inland areas.
Leadership Development
Team Development
Sure, we’ve all seen ‘Bear Grylls’ but what happens when you’re injured or stranded and your iPhone batteries die. Bush skills is a practical activity teaching participants the skills and knowledge about surviving in the bush. Our qualified survival instructors will teach you hands on activities such as fire lighting without matches, shelter construction, damper making, trapping, water collection and navigation. They will be a budding ‘Bear Grylls’ in no time!
Sustainability
Leadership Development
Walk to the top of Picnic Bay's magnificent headland and take in the stunning views from Hawking's Point lookout. Discover ancient boulders while walking between the tops of Magnetic Island's characteristics trees and overlook the surrounding waters. Respect wildlife while discussing stories about gold, pirates, and the island history.
Sustainability
Critical and creative thinking is at the core of the catapults activity as participants work together to design and construct a functioning catapult using basic knot tying skills and logical thinking. Once each team has finished their sturdy, strong catapult masterpieces, the competitive games between teams begins.
Sustainability
Team Development
Have you ever wanted to run away with the circus? This is your chance to learn all the talents of a true circus performer - from juggling and plate spinning, to devil sticks and ribbons, try them all out before putting on a show for your peers of fine-motor skills, persistence, creativeness, and initiative.
Personal Development
Participate in a range of sports and games played on the courts. we introduce you to European handball, half-court basketball, line tag, soccer-style skittle ball and more. Fell free to turn it into a competition or choose to mix the teams for every round to explore each other's strengths.
Team Development
Play a variety of games and sports on the field, focus on your technique with lacrosse, plan your tactic during Pirates and Naval Officers and utilise your strength during T-Ball. This activity emphasises teamwork and competition but with the guidance of a spirit captain to ensure fair play and fun.
Team Development
Take delight in a relaxing fish from the infamous Picnic Bay jetty and learn about sustainable practices that focus on the healthy futures of our oceans and waterways. Our instructors will teach you the basics of how to find bait, casting and correct fish handling techniques.
Sustainability
Express your inner Picasso and design your own dream flyer. Kite building is the perfect opportunity for participants to creatively express themselves. Once kites are designed, assembly is easy and the group head outside to fly. The sky will be full of creation and the ground will be full of animation.
Personal Development
Carefully designed physical and mental challenges aimed at drawing out our future leaders. While learning about effective communication and decision-making skills, this activity will set the scene for leaders to shine.
Leadership Development
Manual navigation is a precious disappearing skill in our current the technological world. No phones allowed in this activity, exploration will be taught the good old fashioned way. First learn to use a compass and a map, and then participants will navigate their team from point to point tracking down markers in a treasure hunt race! The key to success in this activity is clear planning and effective team communication.
Team Development
Personal Development
Leadership Development
Sustainability
In this activity participants will work in groups to focus on communication, spatial awareness and group dynamics. Equipped with a map of camp, each team will hunt for check points and answer trivia questions in order to proceed to the next checkpoint.
Leadership Development
Team Development
Sustainability
Enjoy this high rotational activity where you get a taste of different sports and games like volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee and foam hockey. This activity focuses on team spirit and participation but can be turned into a competition for those who love winning. This activity is also suitable for larger groups.
Learning Development
Team Development
Who said building a team had to be hard? Apex Camps has created a challenging yet light-hearted program that will have groups working cohesively together to cross acid rivers, race a ball down our pipeline, guide your tank to victory and much more. Based on the Principle of TEAM "Together Everyone Achieves More", Participants will work closely to communicate and cooperate to "stay alive"
Team Development
Experience an iconic tradition, a campfire under the stars. Enjoy the best of campfire songs, games, toasted marshmallows, and thoughtful reflection time, a perfect way to bond and connect with one another after a big day of pushing outside comfort zones.
Leadership Development
Personal Development
Sit back and enjoy the cinematic Big Screen Movie Night, ideal for those wanting to relax and wind down after a big day of adventure. With an assortment of movies to choose from and popcorn for all to enjoy, you can't go wrong with this choice.
Put on your disco outfit, listen to some funky tunes, and dance the night away under the disco light. A very lively and fun event for all.
Personal Development
Whether you're a sport expert, movie expert or geography expert there is Trivia questions for you. Participants must work together to score the most points and have their group crowned the trivia champions.
Personal Development
All the fun and excitement of popular game show Minute to Win it, without the cameras and lights. This is a hilarious way to spend the night, it will leave everyone with laughter and new skills to take home to show families. With multiple games and challenges all to be completed in a minute.
Personal Development
Leadership Development
Night Explorer Walk is an activity designed to bring quietness to a group, transferring the focus from the hype of the day - to identifying noises, animals and stars in the stillness of the night.
Sustainability
Release your inner Olympian under the lights of Apex Camps. March as the hall turns into an Olympic theatre, groups into countries... and let the games begin. With more than 14 challenges, the countries will compete for the title of "Olympic Champions".
Team Development
Leadership Development
“The catering staff are very approachable, and nothing was too much trouble. they are very lovely to the children. The site was well maintained and had very useable amenities. The activity staff are great, they use the children's names and were engaged with them, Admin staff are very happy enthusiastic and helpful.” - Teachers
Year 6 | Taigum State Primary | October 2023 | Sunshine Coast
Magnetic Island, 37 Birt St, Picnic Bay QLD 4819
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