Cave Habitats Tour, Initiative Challenges and Orienteering
The initiative challenges encourage cooperation in a fun, safe and supportive environment, these games bring peers closer together. Our guides choose from a range of chal- lenges to suit the age and objectives of your student group. Take this activity one step further and volunteer your student leaders to run a short activity with the support of our guides.
During Orienteering, students explore the bushland surrounding the Capricorn Caves in this challenging outdoor activity. Using a map and compass, students will hone their new navigational skills to find their way to given points around the property. Students can work in small groups and race to be the fastest finishing team!
The Cave Habitats Tour will allow your students will discover the diversity of our unique local environment firsthand. Starting with a bushwalk and an interactive scavenger hunt through the remnant dry rainforest that surrounds the caves, our guide will reveal rare and threatened flora and fauna that have adapted to past climate change in ingenious and fascinating ways. As your students venture into the cave, our guide will explain the unique ecosystems, life cycles and interspecies relationships that flourish in the remarkable tropical karst limestone caves.
Your students will also uncover the impacts of recent major natural disasters, introduced species and the importance of preserving habitats and threatened species such as the Ghost Bat and Cave Fern. Your students will complete this tour with a new found appreciation for cave food webs, ecosystems, and animal and plant adaptations.
About the Program
The initiative challenges encourage cooperation in a fun, safe and supportive environment, these games bring peers closer together. Our guides choose from a range of chal- lenges to suit the age and objectives of your student group. Take this activity one step further and volunteer your student leaders to run a short activity with the support of our guides.
During Orienteering, students explore the bushland surrounding the Capricorn Caves in this challenging outdoor activity. Using a map and compass, students will hone their new navigational skills to find their way to given points around the property. Students can work in small groups and race to be the fastest finishing team!
The Cave Habitats Tour will allow your students will discover the diversity of our unique local environment firsthand. Starting with a bushwalk and an interactive scavenger hunt through the remnant dry rainforest that surrounds the caves, our guide will reveal rare and threatened flora and fauna that have adapted to past climate change in ingenious and fascinating ways. As your students venture into the cave, our guide will explain the unique ecosystems, life cycles and interspecies relationships that flourish in the remarkable tropical karst limestone caves.
Your students will also uncover the impacts of recent major natural disasters, introduced species and the importance of preserving habitats and threatened species such as the Ghost Bat and Cave Fern. Your students will complete this tour with a new found appreciation for cave food webs, ecosystems, and animal and plant adaptations.