Sunshine Coast and Magnetic Island Camp
At Apex Camps we have 4 core development outcomes to choose from - Leadership, Team building, Sustainability and Personal Development. These outcomes are brought out through our challenging and fun activities – from canoeing, mountain biking and ropes courses; to archery, raft building, bush walks, orienteering, bush skills and much more!
Apex Camp is an important place for everyone to build life skills, relationships (both with their peers and mentors), independence and resilience.
Take advantage of our beach-side location with Surfing, Stand Up Paddle Boarding, Raft Building, Canoeing, Beach Games and more! Or step outside of your comfort zone on our Low, Mid or High Ropes Courses and Flying Foxes, or our 12-meter high Rock Climbing Tower. Other popular activities include our Mud Pit Challenge, Archery and Catapults.
We also offer a great selection of supervised night programs to keep the kids entertained all evening. With fully qualified, accredited and experienced activity staff, our activites are exciting, fun, safe and sure to engage everyone.
Each activity session is 1 hour and 50 minutes, with the exception of night activities (1 hour and 30 minutes).
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).
Having trouble deciding on a suitable activity program? Let us help you tailor a program to suit your desired outcomes.
Risk assessments for each activity, and waivers for our inflatable water park and wake park, are available here.
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
Canoeing is a great way to explore your natural waterways and is a rewarding, physical recreational activity. Canoes have a historical history behind the design and have been used for thousands of years. This activity offers the opportunity to learn new skills, develop an understanding and appreciation of rivers and their surrounding environments, and to have a lot of fun doing so! Canoeing encourages the development of communication skills and teamwork. It can be successfully mastered by participants of all ages.
Sustainability Development
Leadership Development
Team Development
See how high you can stack the crates to climb to your limits. This 'Challenge By Choice' activity has the option to challenge fears, build self-esteem and push individual goals. Each climber relies on the help of his team mates to keep pushing ahead with every step higher. Reflection time at the end of the session to discuss managing emotions, fears, and identifying how to support others when they are struggling.
*This is a ‘Challenge by Choice’ activity, the choice is yours how much you want to challenge yourself.
Personal Development
Leadership Development
After taking in the sights from the 12m platform view, participants will leap into mid air to test their fears, nerves and self-belief. Fellow peers on the ground will need to encourage their peers through each challenge. this activity is a personal trial and a personal confidence builder all in one.
*This is a ‘Challenge by Choice’ activity, the choice is yours how much you want to challenge yourself.
Personal Development
Students will be able to challenge their fears and trust levels while enjoying our uniquely designed ropes course. Our 1.5 metre high mid-ropes course allows individuals of all ages and abilities to take part. Great for personal growth, trust and partner work. Participants can also experience an exhilarating ride on the flying fox, leaving your adrenaline levels on a high! A guaranteed highlight of the activity!!
*This is a ‘Challenge by Choice’ activity, the choice is yours how much you want to challenge yourself.
Personal Development
Team Development
Take a ride through picturesque bush trials directly from camp, through to breathtaking coastal scenery. Multiple route choices enable all ages and skill levels to participate in this activity. All participants will enjoy this exciting and physically rewarding adventure.
Personal Development
Sustainability Development
This is a great roping activity for all ages. The possum glider requires complete trust and responsibility as a group of participants launch one 'Possum' up into the sky. This activity will challenge fears and create a supportive and encouraging environment for everyone. Groups are guaranteed to walk away from this activity with a sense of accomplishment and bonding with their peers.
*This is a ‘Challenge by Choice’ activity, the choice is yours how much you want to challenge yourself.
Leadership Development
Team Development
Personal Development
Sustainability Development
Climb to new heights on one of the largest outdoor rock climbing towers in South-East Queensland, an impressive 12-meters high! This activity caters for beginners to expert climbers, with five different climbing routes depending on the participant’s ability. Our qualified instructors will give climbers tips and techniques to ensure they get the most out of the activity. This activity is perfect for building self-confidence, breaking down fear barriers and encouraging peers.
*This is a ‘Challenge by Choice’ activity, the choice is yours how much you want to challenge yourself.
Personal Development
Leadership Development
This is a fun and often wet session, fostering group problem solving, teamwork, construction skills and a little friendly competition!
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 sea-worthy 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
This is one of our most popular activities! Archery can be enjoyed by all ages, abilities and skill levels, with bows designed for each individual age and ability fired towards the target under skilled supervision.
Archery provides participants with a new outdoor experience, develops fine motor skills, increases self-confidence and you will gain an understanding of the fundamental skills and safety issues associated with Archery.
This activity is sure to hit the mark!!
Personal Development
Beach Games will foster initiative in a team environment to achieve a common goal, applying strategic thinking and communication. With a 2 minute bus trip from camp to North-shore beach front, this is a great selection for groups travelling from inland areas.
Note: Does not involve free swimming, though participants may get wet during some games.
Leadership Development
Team Development
Ready, set, go - and the race is on! In this challenge, two competitors sprint for the lead down the inflatable race track to see who can stick their marker the furthest. But they've got to be quick before being flung back to the beginning by the bungee cord.
Team Development
Personal Development
Sure, we’ve all seen ‘Bear Grylls’ but what happens when you’re injured or stranded and you 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, water collection and snake first aid. They will be a budding ‘Bear Grylls’ in no time!
Sustainability Development
Discover flora and fauna while navigating through bush land and coastal treks of the traditional landowners of the Gubbi Gubbi people. Learn hike planning, navigation, safety, respect and awe for our natural surroundings.
Sustainability Development
Participants are placed into teams and are taught basic knot tying skills and design to enable them to build their own team catapult. They then test there catapults and aim by trying to hit a target placed in the field.
Leadership Development
Circus skills is more than just great fun! It’s for all ability levels from beginner to advanced, circus skills is the development of fine motor skills, co-ordination, fitness and teamwork. The skills acquired has the ability to set and have you work towards personal goals, it provides confidence through success and performance. You will learn the skills of juggling, plate spinning, hula hooping etc before turning it up and putting on a show!!
Personal Development
Focus on team challenge in a series on our multi-purpose court that encourage active participation and respectful relationships. Participants will be provided with the opportunity to compete alongside their team, while showing mateship to the competition.
Team Development
Students will participate in a series of fun activities that focus more on active participation than competition. Fun, physically challenging games that will have everyone smiling in a supportive and positive environment. Held on the camp's large sports oval, activities can include safe foam hockey, lacrosse and Olympic frezbie to name a few.The emphasis is on ‘TEAMWORK’ and how each individual participates and contributes within a team environment.
Team Development
Enjoy a relaxing session on the banks of the Maroochy River wetting a line in the hope of landing that BIG ONE! Fishing can be so much more than simply throwing your line into the water, it’s a fun and exciting way to enjoy the great outdoors and be both physically and mentally challenged. Our instructors will teach you the basics of how to tie your own fishing rigs, find bait, casting and correct fish handling techniques.
Sustainability Development
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
Cables, logs, bridges and ropes run amongst the trees, allowing participants to challenge themselves in different ways, all approximately 50cm off the ground. Included is also a small rock climbing wall, new 'tarzan swing' bridge and new single foot wire which gets participants balancing and reaching out to hold various ropes in their traverse. This activity relies on team trust which must be demonstrated ahead of the activity through a series of basic trust exercises. Participants do not require harnesses, therefore the use of spotting by team mates is a must.
Leadership Development
Personal Development
Our army inspired mud pit challenge course is the perfect activity for anyone with a sense of adventure and fun, and a willingness to get a little muddy! Incorporating team work and communication, participants work through various challenges including rope swings, cargo nets and tyres, all topped off with a fabulous, giant mud trench.
Team Development
Personal Development
Leadership Development
Manual navigation is a precious disappearing skill in our current 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.
Leadership Development
Team Development
Sustainability Development
Let our staff facilitate a fun filled session of Australia's favourite past time!
With games designed to included all swimming abilities, this is a perfect activity for laughter and fun. Participants that are not confident swimmers can pop on a PFD and participate 100%
Personal Development
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. With 40 available checkpoints, no team has ever beat 20!
Leadership Development
Team Development
Sustainable Development
Round robin is the perfect way to get your entire group working together. Participants rotate through action-packed team challenges and sporting games such as 'coconut toss' safe foam hockey, lacrosse, Olympic frezbie, volleyball, rapid T-ball, multiball soccer and crazy cricket!
Students will participate in a series of fun activities that focus more on active participation than competition. Fun, physically challenging games that will have everyone smiling in a supportive and positive environment. Held on the camp's large sports oval, activities can include safe foam hockey, lacrosse and ultimate frisbee to name a few. The emphasis is on ‘TEAMWORK’ and how each individual participates and contributes within a team environment.
Leadership Development
Team Development
The launch of our Sustainability project has brought fresh life to Apex Camps. This activity will take students on an important journey to understand how to better care for the world around us and the positive difference resourcefulness can have on our environment. Participants will see first-hand how recycled, organic, food scraps feed our worm farms and chickens while we reduce waste and repurpose leftovers. Students will be educated around the interconnectedness and benefit of the worm farms to our fruit trees, fruit from the fruit trees, fresh eggs from our chickens, and honey from Apex Camps stingless Beehives.
Sustainability
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, escape from hand cuffs, race a ball down the pipeline, and guide your tanks to victory. Based on the principle of TEAM "Together Everyone Achieves More", participants will work closely to communicate and cooperate to "stay alive"
Team Development
Body boarding is a great introduction to surf skills aimed at younger participants. Under the guidance of professional surfing instructors, participants are taught how to catch waves and to control and steer their boards. Conducted at the beautiful North Shore beach, a short trip from the camp.
Note: This activity is not able to run on Mondays or weekends.
*Participants must be able to swim.
Personal Development
Challenge yourself on the latest in aerial adventure courses to hit the Sunshine Coast!
Participants can traverse the 10 and 14 metre high adventure courses, then launch themselves from the 12 metre high tower and race their mate on our thrilling twin 70 metre zip lines
Incorporating the most up-to-date technology, this course provides the best available personal safety system for participants by ensuring a constant connection to the overhead life lines. The revolutionary new belay system recognizes when a carabiner is clipped and closed on a safety cable, and will only then allow the other carabiner to be opened and transferred to the next element.
This activity is sure to challenge all of your senses while providing an awesome sense of achievement, all with unparalleled safety equipment.
*Participants must be minimum 140cm tall and weigh less than 120kg.
Personal Development
Our stand up paddle (SUP) boarding offers adventure and skill learning on the water, just a short bus trip to our beautiful North Shore Beach. Standing full height on the latest SUP boards, large in size designed for ease of use, participants experience a real adventure.
Note: This activity is not able to run on Fridays or weekends.
*Participants must be able to swim
Personal Development
Enjoy one of Australia's greatest traditions, a camp fire under the stars by our specially designed fire pit. Our staff will give kids an authentic campfire experience, with toasted marshmallows and interactive games.
This is a great bonding activity that will have your group singing songs, having fun and winding down after a day of activities. For ages 5 and up, this activity may be combined with our red faces activity.
Leadership Development
Personal Development
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
Based on the popular game show, minute-to-win-it is a hilarious activity for the whole group and perfect for ages. Teams strive to complete challenges and games within the one minute time limit. This high energy and uplifting games night will have everyone in stitches!
Note: May be run as a whole group activity.
Team Development
Relax under the stars and watch a movie on our large pop-up cinema screen while enjoying fresh popcorn (and ice blocks during summer). This is the perfect activity to unwind after a busy day of activities.
Release your inner Olympian under the lights of Apex Camps. Watch as the grounds 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
The ideal team based activity where everyone can come together in a relaxed and fun environment. Let our facilitators entertain your group with fun and interactive trivia questions, and mini games in between. This activity is sure to keep everyone engaged.
Note: May be run as a whole group activity.
Personal 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, 171 Nojoor Rd Twin Waters QLD 4564
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