If you haven't already booked your school camp for 2012, don't panic!

Now that the Great Aussie Bush Camp has two great locations, one at Tea Gardens and another one at our new site at Kincumber, we have extra spaces available. So if you're looking to arrange a tailor-made primary or secondary school camp that will help your students achieve outcomes across a wide range of curriculum areas, you've come to the right place.

Every year for the past three years, approximately 35,000 students visited our site at Tea Gardens. Now that there's 'One great Aussie, two Great locations' this means even more students have the opportunity to have a Great Aussie Bush Camp experience.  We consitently receive a 9.5 out of 10 customer satisfaction rating, so we're sure your school will have way too much fun, just like all of our other regular visitors.

So why not call us now or make an enquiry through our online booking form to see if your preferred date and location is still available. But you'd better hurry, these spaces will fill up fast.

We know every time you visit the Great Aussie Bush Camp at Tea Gardens, your school has ‘way too much fun’, but we wanted to give you even more.

But since we already had the widest choice of onsite activities than any other outdoor education provider in Australia, as well as a fantastic team who make every moment fun, we decided there was only one solution.

One great Aussie, two great locations!

So we’re excited to announce our new facility at Kincumber, just an hour’s drive from the Sydney CBD, on the beautiful Central Coast. So now you can experience everything that’s great about an Aussie Bush Camp experience in two completely different locations.

One great Aussie, two great locations, means now there’s even more reasons to make your next outdoor education experience a Great Aussie Bush Camp experience.

Whether you need a quiet, retreat style environment suitable for Year 11 study skills camps or an action packed centre with activities to suit all ages, The Great Aussie Bush Camp at Kincumber is "way too much fun" for both primary and secondary schools.

We think it ticks all the right boxes.

For students:

• the latest and greatest outdoor education activities including two new activities that are exclusive to the Great Aussie Bush Camp in Australia
• accommodation in comfortable cabins
• a super friendly and experienced team who make every activity a winner and the whole experience memorable

For teachers:

• separate dining facilities for quiet, enjoyable and tasty meals
• assisted night time supervision for a great night’s rest
• peace of mind from working with the most professional outdoor education team in Australia (we’ consistently rate a 9.5/10 in teacher satisfaction surveys)

If you’d like to find out more about how our exciting new facility at Kincumber can assist you to meet your students’ curriculum needs we’d love to hear from you. So please contact us today and we’d be glad to help.

See you soon.

The Great Aussie Bush Camp Team

Everyone has been telling us how much fun they have when they visit The Great Aussie Bush Camp. So we decided to have a little fun as well. We've taken our home page video, re-edited it and added some great new music tracks (all properly licensed through AMCOS to make sure recording artists get the royalties they deserve) and hey presto! A brand new video clip. We hope you like it.

Helping your mates is a great Australian tradition. That’s why on 16 and 17th of April, The Great Aussie Bush Camp hosted the ‘NETS – 4WD4KIDS’ charity event. Around 100 or so families enjoyed the great facilities and accommodation of the Great Aussie Bush Camp, using it as a base for the ‘4WD4KIDS’ event.

This an annual event organised by Alternative Motoring Events (AME) to raise funds for the Newborn & paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS). NETS is a statewide service of NSW Health and is the only service of its kind in Australia. It provides expert clinical advice, clinical co-ordination, emergency treatment and stabilisation and inter hospital transport for very sick babies and children up to the age of 16 years. NETS operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The funds raised from the 4WD4KIDS event will help NETS continue to provide communities across NSW and the ACT with expert advice, fast response and a safe mobile intensive care service for babies and children up to the age of 16 years.

To say thank you to The Great Aussie Bush Camp for sponsoring the NETS - 4WD4KIDS event and helping less fortunate Aussies, AME donated one of the most significant symbols of Aussie mateship, a Gallipoli Lone Pine. This cutting, propagated from a tree at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, is a descendent of the original Lone Pine in Gallipoli.
Every year on ANZAC Day, the Dawn Service at Gallipoli continues to attract ever increasing numbers of Australians keen to remember and understand the beginning of the ANZC legend and the unofficial birth of Australia as a nation and the mateship that binds us together.

The gift of the Gallipoli Lone Pine is one that The Great Aussie Bush Camp will cherish and nurture for many years to come. We hope that it will stand as a reminder to all those who visit us of that great Australian icon, the ANZAC, and the spirit of mateship they fought to defend.

While teachers across the country have been recharging their Energizer bunny batteries ready for the onslaught of another school year, here at The Great Aussie Bush Camp we’ve been hopping into all the tasks that need to be done to keep the Great Aussie Bush Camp, Great! As you can see from our brand new website (we’re still working on it so please come back and take another look soon), we’ve been very productive and there’s even more in store. So we expect this year to be an even bigger and better year than 2010.

2011 is also The Great Aussie Bush Camp’s re-launch year. Our iconic larakin “Aussie” has had a celebrity makeover and even come to life with our very first animation. We think he looks rather stylish. Plus we’ve had a complete makeover of our corporate branding.Since taking over the Great Aussie Bush Camp in 2009, we’ve already made some great changes, adding new infrastructure, and generally working on restoring the site to its former glory when it was originally the home of the Leyland Brothers Movie World. Back then, the site was a bold step into the unknown. The Leyland Brothers were amongst the very first authentic Australian documentary film makers. We think having an authentic outdoor education experience is important too and so does research from Townsend, Carpenter and Pryor (2005). Their research showed that outdoor education in schools was not only a valuable “whole of population strategy in health promotion” but that “ a combination of nature, small groups and adventure activities are found to provide powerful experiences of learning and change in education.

This is what we do best!

The Great Aussie Bush Camp provides tailor made and curriculum-centred outdoor education programs free from the stresses associated with planning school camps. As industry leaders, we offer consistently great service, the widest choice of activities available in Australia, and a family friendly atmosphere; all in an authentic Aussie environment.

We’re also big on great ideas and innovations to allow teachers to achieve more curriculum outcomes in less time.

We’ve added new programs like our new “Rock and Water” initiative to join our regular favourites such as our challenging high ropes courses, canoeing, abseiling and the dual flying fox over Lake Ivan. With 7 separate camp sites and over 40 on-site activities, it’s hard to imagine where to start. Then there’s our off-site excursions to nearby places like Jimmy’s Beach and our largely popular “Eureka - It’s Gold!” experience.Whatever experiences you choose at The Great Aussie Bush Camp, we know that your students will have the time of their lives. At The Great Aussie Bush Camp, learning really is fun. With thousands of students visiting our iconic site each year we know that there’s going to be a whole new generation of Great Aussie Bush Campers who will return home tired, challenged and with very happy memories that will stay with them for a lifetime.

Brad Love

February 2011