Novice Campers Travelling Oz

Now has come the time to make some big, hairy, audacious (BHAG ? big, hairy, audacious, goals) decisions.  We have been travelling for 6 months dreaming about what great things we could do with our lives.  We are the sort of people who thrive to bite off more than we can chew and then chew like crazy, so it comes as no surprise to a lot of you when we let you all know that we are dreaming bigly.  We feel restored and fired up again ready to make a difference, and have decided to build a ?Delhuntie-type Adventure Therapy Park? on the Gold Coast Hinterland.  We have begun to look for a suitable property, but 50 plus acres within 20 minutes to Burleigh is an audacious goal.  It has to have loads of trees/ rainforest, lots of hills, prefer a cliff or two too, a road that can be accessible by buses, fertile soil (so we can be pretty much self sustaining food wise), and within a short distance to lots of schools and the beach.

We already have our first staff member Leah (currently working at Delhuntie, and is amazing) who is willing to step out in faith and work with us.  We envision permaculture gardens, free ranging chickens, straw bale housing, a big outdoor pizza oven, a tree house and a yurt in solitary spots, room for tracks for quad bikes and trail rides for horses.  We envision some sort of industry where youth can come and learn a trade/business, and we have an overall ideal of living in harmony with the environment: building with recycled timbers and non toxic paints, composting toilets, water tanks, solar power solar passive building designs etc.  We hope to find acreage straight away to move onto as soon as Brad finishes welding the P.O.T. and are even committed to camping/caravan til we build something solid.  We can?t wait until we have a few 4WDs, tents, and camping equipment to take bunches of kids out into the outback and the wilderness to find their life purpose and resilience. We see a lodge and accommodation, where we can hold family retreats, father and daughter retreats, spiritual revival retreats and host churches and teams alike.  We are passionate about healthy families, they are foundational for a healthy society.  We will be aiming to reconnect/strengthen/restore families to their rightful positive influence in communities.  Sounds like a pretty bold dream since we don?t have funds yet but sometimes faith is what happens when you step out; it doesn?t exist until you make a move.  We believe that adventure and wilderness therapy changes lives and each of those lives will change other lives, like a ripple effect.  When I say ripples, I don?t envision a small pebble dropped into a puddle, I envision a giant granite boulder being tossed into a massive lake, causing seismic waves across to every shore.

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