11 - 12
Valentines Wilderness Weekend Of Love
25 - 26
Introduction to White Water Canoeing
10 - 11
Exhilarating Multi-Activity Weekend
18
Come Shooting!
24 - 25
Ladies & Girls Only Weekend
30 - 01
River Wye Expedition
08
River Dart Easter Egg Hunt
14 - 15
Exhilarating Multi-Activity Weekend
29
Come Shooting!
05 - 06
May Bank Holiday Family Canoe Expedition
07
May Day Family Bushcraft
12 - 13
Coastal Wild Foods Weekend
26 - 27
Men & Boys Only Weekend
02 - 03
Exhilarating Multi-Activity Weekend
09 - 10
Ladies & Girls Only Weekend
23 - 24
Exhilarating Family Multi-Activity Weekend
30 - 01
Singles Wilderness Weekend
21 - 22
Coastal Wild Foods Weekend
04 - 05
Exhilarating Family Multi-Activity Weekend
11 - 12
Exhilarating Multi-Activity Weekend
12
Climbing and Coasteering Public Course
18 - 19
Canoe and Bushcraft Weekend
01 - 02
Singles Wilderness Weekend
15 - 16
Coastal Wild Foods Weekend
29 - 30
Ladies & Girls Only Weekend
13 - 14
Introduction to White Water Canoeing
27 - 28
Exhilarating Multi-Activity Weekend For Everyone
Take a leisurely, peaceful and romantic trip on one of the most beautiful rivers in Devon. We show you around your canoe for two, and paddle silently down the river. A glass of wine at one of the riverside locals can be arranged, before stopping for a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. On reaching our campsite we will help you to build a shelter and be reminded how to light your cook fire using flint and steel. You might also try fishing from a canoe or collecting some wild foods for your loved ones dinner. Spend the evening chatting round the camp fire or carving your own bushcraft spoon, and of course enjoy a beer or wine or two. After a peaceful nights sleep snuggled together in the trees we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast, before meandering back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125
Our introductory courses to White Water Canoeing are suitable for novices and those with some canoeing experience. This is an intensive course designed to give the candidate the skills to be able to run simple white water rivers as part of an organised group. Day one will be spent learning core canoe skills on flat and gently moving water to allow candidates to progress without the distraction of white water. Day two will start with an introduction to faster moving water and river reading culminating in a river trip on up to grade 2 moving water.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition
Price: 195
For a fun & exciting break, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and abseiling on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment & expert instruction
Price: 95/75
Join us at Newbarn Farm for a fantastic day of Shooting. Our GNAS and CPSA qualified instructors will safely introduce you to Target/ Field Archery and Clay Pigeon Shooting. We have a range of Bows and Shotguns of different sizes and gauges to cater for everyone. Start 10am - Finish 2pm
Duration: 1 day
Includes: Hot Drinks and Biscuits Included
Price: 45
It's time to show the boys that the outdoors is not just for the boys! Join us for an exciting yet peaceful river journey, which will refresh and challenge. As we canoe down the river Dart, we show you how to paddle with ease in pairs or solo. We can stop for refreshment if you would like at one of three local pubs, before having a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. At our wild campsite we help you to build a shelter, and your cook fire using flint and steel. You can optionally try your hand at fishing, rabbit skinning or foraging for wild foods for dinner. The evening is spent nattering round the camp fire, where you might want to carve your own bushcraft spoon, bow and arrows practice air rifle shooting and of course have a beer or two. After a refreshing nights sleep in the trees we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast, before honing your canoeing skills on your paddle back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
The River Wye is one of the most beautiful rivers we paddle, a haven for canoeists and wildlife such as otters, voles, mink, salmon, trout, buzzards, kingfishers, herons, red kites and peregrine falcons. Explore this superb river and approach it's wildlife quietly by open canoe. Our guides will instruct provide canoeing instruction as well as bushcraft skills and point out interesting wildlife. Spend 2 days and nights exploring the river and camp or bivouac in the evening at peaceful riverside campsites.
Duration: 3 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, camping fees, all meals, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 195/125
Take the family on an Easter Egg Hunt with a difference ? we will provide clues, maps and puzzles for you and your family to work out the secret locations for all the ?wild? eggs we have hidden. A joint effort will be needed if you are to feast on the any of the goodies. Challenges will include being the best at fire lighting using traditional techniques, wildlife identification, creating the best natural shelter, hot chocolate making and marsh mallow toasting!
Duration: 1 Day
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 50/35
For a fun & exciting break, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and abseiling on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment & expert instruction
Price: 95/75
Join us at Newbarn Farm for a fantastic day of Shooting. Our GNAS and CPSA qualified instructors will safely introduce you to Target/ Field Archery and Clay Pigeon Shooting. We have a range of Bows and Shotguns of different sizes and gauges to cater for everyone. Start 10am - Finish 2pm
Duration: 1 day
Includes: Hot Drinks and Biscuits Included
Price: 45
Bring the whole family on this overnight mini canoe and bushcraft overnight expedition on the river Dart. This event ideally suited to families and groups of friends and has been developed over several years. Help and work with your children, friends or parents to survive this mini-canoe expedition into the wilds! Learn the arts of traditional fire lighting using flint and steel, natural shelter building , fishing from your canoe, wild food foraging for dinner, wood carving and of course enjoy a beer or wine or two around the evening fire. After sleeping out under the stars amongst the trees listening to the owls, we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast before paddling quietly back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
Make this a day for the whole family, learn new skills and work together as a team! If you are a fan of Ray Mears and have always wanted to have a go, this is a great introduction to subjects such as traditional fire-lighting, bushcraft and campcraft skills, wood carving and natural cordage. Spend a day with the family out in the woods learning some of these basic bushcraft and campcraft skills, as well as learning about the wildlife, wild foods and their environments.
Duration: 1 Day
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 50/35
The Stunning River Dart Estuary is the perfect location for our Wild Food Weekend. ?When the Tide is out, the table is set?. We will use our Canadian Canoes to explore this wonderful estuary, hunting and foraging for Food for Free. The estuary is the perfect place to rely on Mother Nature to provide for your needs, offering Oysters, Mussels and Cockles at low tide, sea bass, delicious Marsh Samphire, wild garlic, sea beet and tasty and nutritious nettles. Cook your feast on an open fire, then sit back and enjoy your meal! At our hidden ?Wild Campsite?, your guides will show you how to pitch your basha and string your Hammock between the trees or even one of our Traditional Single Pole Tepee’s. We will guide you through lighting your cook fire with traditional flint & steel, construct a stone hearth or make a tripod to suspend you billy cans from. Choose from dishes such as shellfish chowder, nettle soup, samphire fried in wild garlic butter and delicious Rabbit Curry served with fresh Bannock. With a little guidance and imagination you too can be the next ‘Riverbank Masterchef’.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
Get into the wilds, bond with the boys and survive our men and boys only weekend! After introducing you to your canoe, we let you lose on the river Dart, showing you how to paddle like the professional hunters and gatherers of old. A brief re-introduction to civilisation can be arranged at one of three local pubs, before stopping for a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. On reaching our wild campsite you will be shown how to build a shelter, be reminded how to light your cook fire using flint and steel and you can try your hand at fishing, rabbit skinning or start collectin
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
For a fun & exciting break for all the family, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and coasteering on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition
Price: 95/75
It's time to show the boys that the outdoors is not just for the boys! Join us for an exciting yet peaceful river journey, which will refresh and challenge. As we canoe down the river Dart, we show you how to paddle with ease in pairs or solo. We can stop for refreshment if you would like at one of three local pubs, before having a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. At our wild campsite we help you to build a shelter, and your cook fire using flint and steel. You can optionally try your hand at fishing, rabbit skinning or foraging for wild foods for dinner. The evening is spent nattering round the camp fire, where you might want to carve your own bushcraft spoon, bow and arrows practice air rifle shooting and of course have a beer or two. After a refreshing nights sleep in the trees we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast, before honing your canoeing skills on your paddle back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
For a fun & exciting break for all the family, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and coasteering on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment & expert instruction
Price: 95/75
Take a leisurely, peaceful, fun and romantic trip on one of the most beautiful rivers in Devon. As we paddle our canoes in twos, the first fun thing to do will be to choose your paddling partner, and paddle peacefully down the river perhaps getting to know each other better! A glass of wine at one of the riverside locals can be arranged, before stopping for a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. On reaching our campsite we will help you to build a shelter and be reminded how to light your cook fire using flint and steel. You might also try fishing from a canoe or collecting some wild foods for dinner. Spend the evening chatting round the camp fire or carving your own bushcraft spoon, and of course enjoy a beer or wine or two. After a peaceful nights sleep in the trees, we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast, before meandering back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125
The Stunning River Dart Estuary is the perfect location for our Wild Food Weekend. ?When the Tide is out, the table is set?. We will use our Canadian Canoes to explore this wonderful estuary, hunting and foraging for Food for Free. The estuary is the perfect place to rely on Mother Nature to provide for your needs, offering Oysters, Mussels and Cockles at low tide, sea bass, delicious Marsh Samphire, wild garlic, sea beet and tasty and nutritious nettles. Cook your feast on an open fire, then sit back and enjoy your meal! At our hidden ?Wild Campsite?, your guides will show you how to pitch your basha and string your Hammock between the trees or even one of our Traditional Single Pole Tepee’s. We will guide you through lighting your cook fire with traditional flint & steel, construct a stone hearth or make a tripod to suspend you billy cans from. Choose from dishes such as shellfish chowder, nettle soup, samphire fried in wild garlic butter and delicious Rabbit Curry served with fresh Bannock. With a little guidance and imagination you too can be the next ‘Riverbank Masterchef’.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
For a fun & exciting break for all the family, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and abseiling on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment & expert instruction
Price: 95/75
For a fun & exciting break for all the family, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and coasteering on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment & expert instruction
Price: 95/75
For a perfect combination of water and land based activities, why not try two half day activities. This course, based on both the north and south coasts of Devon, combines half a day of climbing and abseiling, plus half a day of the ever popular and exhilarating activity called coasteering. As with climbing, no experience is necessary for the coasteering activity.
Duration: 1 day
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition
Price: 50/30
Bring the whole family on this overnight mini canoe and bushcraft overnight expedition on the river Dart. This event ideally suited to families and groups of friends and has been developed over several years. Help and work with your children, friends or parents to survive this mini-canoe expedition into the wilds! Learn the arts of traditional fire lighting using flint and steel, natural shelter building , fishing from your canoe, wild food foraging for dinner, wood carving and of course enjoy a beer or wine or two around the evening fire. After sleeping out under the stars amongst the trees listening to the owls, we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast before paddling quietly back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
Take a leisurely, peaceful, fun and romantic trip on one of the most beautiful rivers in Devon. As we paddle our canoes in twos, the first fun thing to do will be to choose your paddling partner, and paddle peacefully down the river perhaps getting to know each other better! A glass of wine at one of the riverside locals can be arranged, before stopping for a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. On reaching our campsite we will help you to build a shelter and be reminded how to light your cook fire using flint and steel. You might also try fishing from a canoe or collecting some wild foods for dinner. Spend the evening chatting round the camp fire or carving your own bushcraft spoon, and of course enjoy a beer or wine or two. After a peaceful nights sleep in the trees, we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast, before meandering back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125
The Stunning River Dart Estuary is the perfect location for our Wild Food Weekend. ?When the Tide is out, the table is set?. We will use our Canadian Canoes to explore this wonderful estuary, hunting and foraging for Food for Free. The estuary is the perfect place to rely on Mother Nature to provide for your needs, offering Oysters, Mussels and Cockles at low tide, sea bass, delicious Marsh Samphire, wild garlic, sea beet and tasty and nutritious nettles. Cook your feast on an open fire, then sit back and enjoy your meal! At our hidden ?Wild Campsite?, your guides will show you how to pitch your basha and string your Hammock between the trees or even one of our Traditional Single Pole Tepee’s. We will guide you through lighting your cook fire with traditional flint & steel, construct a stone hearth or make a tripod to suspend you billy cans from. Choose from dishes such as shellfish chowder, nettle soup, samphire fried in wild garlic butter and delicious Rabbit Curry served with fresh Bannock. With a little guidance and imagination you too can be the next ‘Riverbank Masterchef’.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
It's time to show the boys that the outdoors is not just for the boys! Join us for an exciting yet peaceful river journey, which will refresh and challenge. As we canoe down the river Dart, we show you how to paddle with ease in pairs or solo. We can stop for refreshment if you would like at one of three local pubs, before having a demonstration of traditional fire lighting and a brew. At our wild campsite we help you to build a shelter, and your cook fire using flint and steel. You can optionally try your hand at fishing, rabbit skinning or foraging for wild foods for dinner. The evening is spent nattering round the camp fire, where you might want to carve your own bushcraft spoon, bow and arrows practice air rifle shooting and of course have a beer or two. After a refreshing nights sleep in the trees we will blow the fire alight to cook breakfast, before honing your canoeing skills on your paddle back to civilisation.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition, evening camp meal, breakfast, tea, coffee & hot chocolate
Price: 125/95
Our introductory courses to White Water canoeing are suitable for novices and those with some canoeing experience. This is an intensive course designed to give the candidate the skills to be able to run simple white water rivers as part of an organised group. Day one will be spent learning core canoe skills on flat and gently moving water to allow candidates to progress without the distraction of white water. Day two will start with an introduction to faster moving water and river reading culminating in a river trip on up to grade 2 moving water.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment, expert instruction & tuition
Price: 195
For a fun & exciting break for all the family, join us for this exhilarating two day multi-activity and adventure weekend. Suitable for singles, couples, families and small groups, activities include kayaking or canoeing on day one and climbing and abseiling on day 2. These activities are suitable for complete beginners or for those looking to improve existing skills.
Duration: 2 Days
Includes: All equipment & expert instruction
Price: 95/75
Tel 08432 896361
E-mail enquiries@essential-adventure.co.uk
"Very enjoyable day, learned new skills and would recommend to friends, thank you."
Gordon (London) Jun 2009
"Thanks very, very much for yesterday - it was absolutely great! We had a fantastic time."
Albie (Exmouth) Apr 2009
"Thanks for a great week. We both had a great time and enjoyed your company and guidance. Hope to see you again soon..."
Kate & Tom (London) May 2009
