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For the once-only Tandem jumpers, choose to tandem jump over the Sunshine Coast and land on the beach at Coolum Beach or choose to tandem jump at Toogoolawah drop zone - Ramblers purpose-built skydiving institution.

The minimum age is 14 (with Parents consent) and a 86 year old groover holds the age record at Toogoolawah! Check out the Tandem Skydiving page. Click the tandem skydiving icon to find out more!

For those with a taste of something more than a tandem jump, choose the First Jump Course or try the 'Introduction' 3-jump freefall package, either at Toogoolawah drop zone or Coolum Beach. If you are up for the course or even the sport, choose the 'Completion' 10-jump Freefall package or better still, go hard and go off with the 'Addiction' 20-jump 'A' License package.

For the experienced jumpers, Ramblers drop zone at Toogoolawah is a REAL drop zone, for the fun jumpers - yeah! The 17-place turbine Cessna Caravan flies loads pretty much every day throughout the year - the average is about 4 caravan loads daily mid-week and up to 20 loads daily on the weekend, sometimes with 2-plane formation loads just because we can! Regular events including fun competitions, organised dive days, big boogies, Learning Curve Camps, team training camps and monthly Safety Meetings.

About Ramblers

Back in 1966 Bob Morrison was the original Rambler. He trained up Instructor Dave McEvoy in the late 60s. Dave carried the Ramblers torch and founded Ramblers Parachute Centre in 1974. He also founded the first successful parachuting magazine in Australia ‘Rambling On’, specifically to communicate with the jumpers nationwide.

In 1979 Dave purchased the land at Toogoolawah and built the drop zone from scratch. In the same year Ramblers was the first organisation in the world to use modern sport parachute equipment for student use. In 1982 Ramblers was the first organisation in Queensland to adopt the Accelerated Freefall (AFF) method of student training.

During the 80s Ramblers Drop Zone was the host of two international skydiving competitions, the South Pacific Championships and the World Cup of Canopy Relative Work. In the late 80s the drop zone hosted three consecutive Australian National Skydiving Championships.

In the early 90s Ramblers was the first operation in Australia to use the Tandem Assist (TAF) method of training students. In 1994 the drop zone hosted the first of many successful international parachuting conventions called the Equinox Boogie. The Equinox Boogie is regarded as Australia’s premier international skydiving event.

At the turn of the Century, the new Millenium, the Australian National Skydiving Championships were again hosted at Toogoolawah and were held there for another two consecutive years.

Over the past 30 years, Ramblers has grown to become a family-run organisation. Dave’s sister Karen continues her 5,000 jump career as an Instructor, her daughter Deb is a full-time instructor, cameraflyer and coach at Toogoolawah drop zone with 2,000 jumps, while Dave’s daughter Susie, also an Instructor of over 1,700 jumps has taken the magazine “Rambling On’ into the next millennium and publishes ‘ASM – the Australian Skydiver Magazine’ for the National Membership. Dave’s nephew Junior is also a full-time cameraflyer who travels around the drop zones in search of work and fun! The photo here was a milestone moment when six McEvoy’s took to the skies together!

Ramblers is the longest running and most experienced skydiving institution in Queensland. To this day Ramblers continues to grow and reach new heights in the Sport and in the Industry. Ramblers is undoubtedly Australia’s most progressive parachuting and skydiving organisation – a leader that has set the standard for other drop zones to aspire to.

For more info about Toogoolawah DZ, click here
To see photos of the Drop Zone Facilities, click here
To find out more about Coolum Beach, click here
To meet the staff, click here