You’ll arrive at the Sunshine Coast Airport in Maroochydore before 1pm and be greeted by your host, Andrew McCarthy, or a member of his team and transferred to his family property COD-N-UP, with a small detour to pick-up your alcohol on the way – if required. After arriving at COD-N-UP you and your luggage will be driven to the top of Mount Goomboorian, which you’ll call home for the next three nights. It’s hard to explain the vista until you see it with your own eyes, but let me try, it boasts 360 degree views stretching to the west and to the east where you can see the sand dunes near Noosa. It’s an incredible campsite where you’ll enjoy true bush comforts, including a tent large enough to swing a cat in, stretcher bed with all linen provided, bedside table. Trust me – you’ll be more than comfortable. On sunset you’ll have the pleasure of enjoying a Liberty riding demonstration by Andrew. Tonight’s meal will be a camp oven roast before you retire to your spacious tent for a good night’s sleep.

After waking to a spectacular sunrise over the Pacific Ocean and enjoying a hearty cooked breakfast, you’ll be transported off the mountain and introduced to your horse for the five days. Once you’re comfortable in your swinging fender saddle you’ll commence your riding adventure through cattle grazing country. With plenty of opportunities to enjoy a trot and canter if you wish, you will venture through vine scrub, across creek crossings and through a stand of Eucalypt timber where you will have a chance to spot a koala (trust me – your chances are good!).

After the morning’s ride you will arrive at Silky Oak Tea Gardens (pictured above), your lunch location. Here you’ll literally step off your horse and walk into a professionally run, rustic country pub dining experience. Now you’re in for a real treat here globetrotters because at Silky Oak you will be given the opportunity to have a photo of yourself on a horse IN A BAR (yes, you read that correctly!). An awesome keepsake to take home and cherish of your riding adventure and more importantly social media bragging rights!

Once all the modelling contracts have been fulfilled you’ll sit down to enjoy a hearty meal. Following lunch you’ll get lost in pristine scrub and virgin rainforest, possibly spot another Koala and eventually finish at your Mount Goomboorian campsite for a sundowner.

After a long but fulfilling day in the saddle and with your bellies full from dinner, you’ll retire to the blazing warmth of a camp fire and enjoy a whip-cracking demonstration, a photo viewing opportunity of your day’s modelling and discussions of the following day’s activities before falling into a wondrous and peaceful slumber.

Today you’ll ride off the mountain, mustering cattle as you go. Once yarded, the cattle will be processed exactly the way it’s done in a real cattle station environment. Your guide, Andrew McCarthy, has previously run about 17,000 head of stock on a cattle station in WA that was a bit less than a quarter of a million acres, so he’ll be able to demonstrate to you the skills and procedures used in daily life on the stations. Stock will be branded, dehorned, ear marked, ear tagged, castrated and treated for tick and fly as required. This is a dinky- di, real life cattle work experience globetrotters, dirt moustaches included!

Following the day’s work you’ll head back up the mountain where you will reminisce on the day’s activities and enjoy another night of breathtaking views, campfire yarns, whip cracking and delicious, satisfying camp oven food.

There is also the opportunity to brand your name into a piece of rough sawn timber with fire brands for you to help remember the occasion (please note, this will be an additional cost of $100 or $120 depending on the piece of timber you choose).

After another stomach-filling breakfast, it’s time to pack up and leave the mountain campsite onto your next adventure – campdrafting! The horses will be loaded onto the truck and taken to ‘Cots Camp’ at Widgee.  En route you’ll enjoy an early lunch stop for a multi award-winning pie at Ross Creek Store before arriving at Rod Cotter’s property at Widgee to commence the cattle mustering at 1pm. At the conclusion of mustering and possibly some drafting in the yards, you’ll be reunited with your luggage and shown to your tent.

Tonight we advise you to get some early shut-eye so you’re ready for the next two days of campdrafting!

It’s campdrafting time globetrotters – YAY! After breakfast you’ll enjoy a full day’s campdrafting clinic with quality instruction by none other than campdrafting royalty, Rod Cotter. You’ll learn the in’s and out’s of this fast paced, exhilarating discipline and try your hand at the sport on board your trusty, knowledgeable horse that you’ve already bonded with for the past three days. I guarantee you’ll spend the entire day grinning from ear to ear as you transform into a cowboy or cowgirl and chase after some cows. What is so special about this clinic is Rod has broken the sport up into easy to manage sections from teaching your horse to cut out properly from the camp, beast selection and going through the rules. Trust me, you’re not thrown into the deep-end, this clinic is perfect for beginners to experienced riders who have been campdrafting all their life.  With a full day’s clinic under your belt and another hearty meal for dinner, you’ll collapse into your tent dreaming of cows!

Today you’ll get the opportunity to continue practicing what you learnt yesterday as you try your hand at some more runs. Rip and tear around the course, chasing after your beast at speed. The final part of the day is a friendly competition as judged by Rod, with trophies for first, second and third. After lunch you will be transported back to the Sunshine Coast Airport, arriving in time for flights departing after 4pm. For those who drove you’ll also bid farewell to the team and head off after lunch.

Round trip transfers from the Sunshine Coast Airport (Maroochydore) are available for $200 AUD per person on arrival and departure day only. Guests need to arrive no later than 1pm on day one, and departing flights are to be booked after 4pm on the final day.

Please note, due to varying arrival times lunch is not included on arrival day.