Skills weekend · 2 days · Bribie Island · first to open for bookings
Sand driving and recovery fundamentals, an hour from Brisbane.
A practical skills weekend on Bribie Island's beach and inland tracks — the closest real sand driving to Brisbane. This is non-accredited training: no assessment pressure, just a professional trainer, your own vehicle, and the skills that make everything else possible. It's also the ideal warm-up for K'gari, and a prerequisite pathway for our advanced trips.
Morning theory: how a 4WD actually works (traction, low range, diff locks) · loading a vehicle safely · journey planning · basic techniques · reading the track — identifying hazards, assessing risk, picking the line.
Afternoon practical: sand driving — tyre pressures, momentum, hills, ruts and soft stuff, on the beach where it's safe to get it slightly wrong.
Morning theory: self-recovery through driving technique first · recovery equipment fundamentals — shovel, traction boards, snatch straps — and the physics that make them dangerous when misused.
Afternoon practical: staged recovery scenarios — you bog it, you plan it, you recover it, with the trainer managing the risk.
Non-accredited skills training — certificate of participation. Want the nationally accredited version? See contract training (TLIC0023 and related units).
Your own high-clearance 4WD with low range. Vehicle checked over together on day one — that's part of the learning.
Small groups, family-friendly. Partners and teens who'll share the driving are welcome in the same vehicle.
Bribie Island recreation area — vehicle access permit required (we'll walk you through it). Day trips from Brisbane; no camping needed.
Tell me your vehicle and what you want to get confident at — dates are set once a small group comes together.
scameron@diverseroutes.com.au