Meet the school camp team that makes your school camp experience easy and enjoyable. Our camp concierge Shannon works with teachers well in advance of a school camp to design just the right itinerary. Once you arrive, the full team gets to work making sure you school camp runs smoothly. Whether it’s just the right food prepared by our chef, or fun, safe and creative activities facilitated by our Activities team, we all pull together to ensure teachers and students feel welcome and fully enjoy the school camp experience.
Team
Riki Karaka
General Manager
Joined Adventure Centre in 2014
My role varies from day to day, however, my main objective is to ensure that the Coffs Coast Adventure Centre meets its objectives and one of our major objectives is being profitable so we can help the orphaned and underprivileged in Bali Indonesia. Therefore if keeping things running smoothly means I have to facilitate an activity, wash dishes or clean a toilet……then that’s what I’ll be doing.
I have achieved my “Guide” qualification with the Professional Association of Climbing Instructors (PACI) and this qualification gives me a more professional approach to Outdoor Recreation and the management of all levels of clients, including school students. Along with my PACI qualification my ongoing professional development gives me an edge over other “Instructors” and Managers in terms of safety standards, group behaviour management and overall client experience.
Jared Fairall
Assistant Manager / Head Trainer
Joined Adventure Centre in 2013
Shannon Kent
Camp Concierge / Bookings Team
Joined Adventure Centre in 2017
Samantha Tobin
Camp Concierge / Bookings Team
Joined Adventure Centre in 2023
Tim Karrasch
Head Chef / Catering Manager
Joined Adventure Centre in 2015
Meet Tim our Chef. Tim is a highly experienced Chef, with over 30 years in the catering industry. “I completed my cooking apprenticeship in Brisbane in 1987, before moving to country NSW.
After spending 1992 in Europe, where I worked as a chef at the Bibury Court Hotel in Glostershire UK, I moved to Coffs Harbour where I worked as a chef at Pelican Beach Resort & the Bonville International Golf Resort. In 2015 I came to work here at the Coffs Coast Adventure Centre, starting as a casual chef and also working as an Activities Facilitator. I’m here to meet all your catering needs & I am always up for a chat. I believe in the 3 F’s, Family, Food & Football. Family come first, cooking is my passion & I’m a mad St George Dragons fan. Go the Dragons !!”
Paul Smith
Activity Facilitator / Trainer
Joined Adventure Centre in 2021
My passion is to encourage and lead young people in challenging themselves to achieve outcomes that create growth from within through leading activities that are physical and exciting to be a part of.
As an ex-serviceman, I believe growing the next generation to be self-confident and have the drive to overcome adverse situations with critical thinking through teamwork are all important things to learn in childhood.
Natalie O’Brien
Activity Facilitator / Bookings Team
Joined Adventure Centre in 2023
Jim Wightman
Activity Facilitator
Joined Adventure Centre in 2023
Will Snape
Activity Facilitator
Joined Adventure Centre in 2023
Sandra Maione
Bookings Team / House Keeping
Joined Adventure Centre in 2023
Nicole Deres
House Keeping
Joined Adventure Centre in 2022
Catering Team
Activity Team
Our Awesome CCAC Team
Call our Camp Conccierge 02 6653 5311
Let Shannon help you with booking and planning your camp.