This package is an introduction to 4WD techniques although drivers with experience have commented that they have learnt a lot.

DAY ONE
We have endeavoured to make it a family package and, to this end, on the first morning non-trainees go on a property tour on our custom built 6WD 32 seat vehicle.

For participants, our instructor presents a 90-minute theory session in the conference centre before breaking for morning tea.

Drivers are then taken on a circuit of the 600m trial track in an instructor's vehicle, while he explains his approach to each hazard. He then travels with you in your 4WD and coaches you through the challenging terrain.

In the meantime, those on the 6WD property tour will be seeing wild emus, three different species of kangaroo, horses, and other station stock. They will visit an old Myall tree from which Aboriginals have removed boomerangs and shields. Another highlight is visiting the homestead ruins of the first white settler in the district at Woolundunga Springs. This is also the head works of Port Augusta's first water supply (1868) and is the site for a morning tea stop.

After lunch, there is a family tag-along tour in the Flinders Ranges to Horrocks Pass. When any challenging terrain is encountered the drivers will "conference" with the instructor who will then coach them through. We recommend that the whole family enjoy this afternoon but, if you prefer there are some great tracks into our private gorges for bushwalking. There are also some great tracks for anyone who wants to bring a mountain bike.After the tag-along tour there is time to relax around the campfire before the famous Spear Creek 4x4 Ridge Tour - a short and exciting 4WD jaunt to the top of a nearby ridge for champagne and nibbles as you watch the spectacular sunset.

We then have our four-course meal after which you are welcome to build up the campfire and enjoy the rest of the evening under the stars.

DAY TWO
After another great cooked breakfast you will leave for the Nectarbrook Discovery Plantation, an eight acre, 2000 tree experimental plot which is the largest plantation of Australian Sandalwood in the Southern Hemisphere.  Many different types of arid-land trees and fruits are being trialed at this site for future commercial production.

You then enter the Nectorville Hills via the homestead ruins of past Herde generations, through Lions Gorge, Dingo Gorge and onto the top of the Nectarbrook Range past a patch of Quongdong trees for a view of Spencer Gulf. Next stop is Mount Gullet Creek for lunch of homemade soup, cold chicken salad and hot baked spuds from the campfire.

Our next stretch of track is our favourite 4WD road to Nectarbrook Reservoir. This is a "Make Work Scheme" instigated by the Port Augusta town leaders to remove the unemployed from the town in the late 19th century.

Then it is back to Spear Creek with course participants feeling quietly pleased with themselves and wondering if they really did that.