Bringing to the modern day the lost skills of bush craft
Incorporating a common sense approach to finding your way in our potentially hostile environment you will be leaving the comfort of your familiar surroundings and the sounds of the urban sprawl, as we venture into a variety of terrains utilising basic provisions.
Local Weekends
Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, Qld
International Weekly Adventures
Sumatra, Indonesia
Customised programs
To suit your group
- Bush craft Skills
- Day and night navigation
- Creating shelters
- Working with nature
- Respect for the environment
- Finding water
- Establishing fire
- Bush cooking
- Traditional aboriginal techniques
- Less conventional methods
- Setting snares and traps
- Improvised use of tools
- Rescue skills
- Starting with an attitude of respect for the environment we are operating in and working with nature, as opposed to against it, will enhance your chance of finding your way back to civilization in one piece.
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- Creating shelters to protect you from the elements, whether it is man made from a broken down 4WD or utilising the protection of fallen logs or make shift “lean-to”.
- Gain a greater insight into navigation by day and night, walking your way through the constellations of our night sky and direction finding, as well as daytime navigation with the use of map and compass.
- Learn the basics of finding water, to ward off dehydration, in what may seem a desolate environment.
- Establish a fire for warmth, to cook your food, sterilise your water, using traditional aboriginal techniques as well as many other less conventional methods.
- Practice the skill of setting snares and traps should you ever need to catch food to sustain energy, forage for natures bush food, manufacture improvised tools for digging, hunting, and most importantly obtain the skills to facilitate rescue, with a variety of tried and tested methods.
With 11 years of military service, 9 of those with the Australian SAS Regiment, I have been fortunate to have been trained in many facets of survival, both here in Australia and overseas. I have gained and built on valuable skills along with mental conditioning that will ensure you are mentally able to control your fears and emotions when you find yourself ill prepared in a potentially hostile environment! There is nothing I would love more than to pass on some of the skills I have acquired to those who have an open mind and attitude. I am privileged to have spent time working with and learning from Aboriginals from remote parts of the Northern Territory, where I was a professional guide for 8 years. I am now based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. – Rick Petersen
Our Grassroots Survival Training and Workshops cater for father and son, sporting and team groups with Hostile Environment Training for Corporate Business.
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