For the ever-growing community of Australians navigating life on the open road – grey nomads, "not so grey" nomads, and the rising tide of van lifers – your house is your haven. But where you park it matters. Standard caravan parks, while functional, often lack the freedom, seclusion, and genuine connection many travelers crave. This is where the Camping, Outdoors and Accommodation Cooperative (COA) Property steps in, offering a unique and powerful alternative: shared ownership of small, 'out of the way' parcels of Australian land.

This isn't just about finding a cut-price campsite. It's about fundamentally changing how we interact with the land we travel through and securing a meaningful, resilient future together.

The Problem: Parking Without Roots

Life as a modern nomad – whether in a pristine, late-model motorhome or a self-converted vintage van – is a beautiful paradox. You have total mobility, yet you are often restricted.

The traditional options present a choice: expensive, crowded caravan parks that can feel sanitised and predictable, or increasingly regulated free camping spots that are becoming harder to find and even harder to linger in legally, short term or long term.

You have freedom of movement, but you lack freedom of space. You park on land owned by others, under rules set by others. What's missing is the core human need for a place to genuinely be, not just a place to stop. A place with dirt you can connect with, water you can trust, and a community of like-minded people.

The COA Solution: Strength in Shared Ownership

The Camping, Outdoors and Accommodation Cooperative (COA) isn't your average property developer. We are a member-owned cooperative – the "C" stands for our collective strength. Our core business (discover more at coa.au/discover/about-us/core-business) is built on the simple yet profound principle of cooperative land ownership.

Instead of one person bearing the immense financial and regulatory burden of buying a property, COA facilitates many members coming together. By pooling our resources, we can access small, strategically located parcels of land – beautiful "awake land" that might otherwise be out of reach.

COA Property is NOT about:

• Just owning a share in land to short stay camp.
• Having a tiny house long stay location (though that is a definite bonus).
• A private 4WD park or hunting ground to use any day of the week.

COA Property IS about:

1. Shared Costs: Drastically reducing the individual financial barrier to land access.
2. Strategic Seclusion: Acquiring "out of the way" land that offers genuine peace, privacy, and connection to nature.
3. Community Hubs: Creating safe, welcoming, and resilient spaces where fellow COA members can truly connect.
4. A Shared Investment: In real, physical land – a tangible asset for a complex world.

More Than Just a Stop: A Secure Foothold in a Volatile World

We believe in being practical optimists. While we relish the freedom of the road, we aren't blind to the complexities of the 21st century. This is why a key – and increasingly vital – part of the COA Property vision is about having somewhere to go when Australia, and indeed the world, becomes "mixed up."

The New Realism: Prepping is Rational

Increasingly, across the world, people consider prepping (short for emergency preparedness) to be a rational, proactive response to a volatile world, rather than a fringe or paranoid activity.

Driven by a perceptible rise in:

• Natural disasters
• Supply chain failures
• Economic instability

Prepping is seen as a crucial way to ensure safety, reduce dependence on strained, fragile systems, and maintain independence. For those of us living on wheels, this is not theoretical; it's a deeply practical consideration. What if fuel supplies are disrupted? What if major highways are closed for weeks by fire or flood? Where will you go?

The Distinctly Australian Way of Prepping

Prepping in Australia is distinctive. It's less about guns and private militias, and fundamentally more about food, water, and community.

This difference matters profoundly. The threats most Australians imagine are not urban shootouts or civil war. Increasingly, they imagine (and have already experienced):

• Frequent and severe floods
• Intense, widespread bushfires
• Extreme heatwaves
• Brittle supply-chain breakdowns for essentials like food and clean water.

In this context, having a secure piece of land that is "awake" – land where you can access water, potentially grow food, and contribute to or benefit from a shared community project – isn't just a lifestyle choice. It's a strategic act of self-reliance and mutual support. COA properties are designed with this resilience in mind. They are places you can stop on your travels, but they are also secure footholds to retreat to.

Is the COA Land Network For You?

The COA Land Network is a special kind of cooperative for a special kind of person.

The COA Land Network is NOT for you if:

• You are a conformist or a stickler who strictly adheres to rules, procedures, or regulations without understanding why.
• You are someone who ignores the "spirit" of the rule and strictly prefers the letter of the law.
• You expect the predictability and serviced infrastructure of a high-end caravan park.

The COA Land Network IS for you if: You can be a Property Custodian: A person entrusted with the care, control, and safeguarding of COA Land, requiring vigilance and discretion about its whereabouts and its contents. You approach the land with respect and take responsibility for your shared asset.

We are looking for people who are:

• Dreaming of accessing land, going off-grid, and being part of a sustainable future.
• A homesteader or aspiring homesteader who knows this can't be done alone.
• Looking for real food security through access to "awake land" and community projects.
• A home-educating or freedom-focused family.
• Someone with skills, time, or energy to contribute to the shared land.
• A values-aligned investor or supporter of a more resilient Australia.
• A person who simply wants to find their people.

No matter where you are in Australia — if you're awake and want freedom, the COA Land Network is for you! We invite you to be part of something bigger than just the next campsite. Share the cost, build the network, and secure your future, your terms.

Here's a very simple example of cost: out of the way block of land is $250K. Minimum shares in COA is $2,500. Just 100 people is all it takes to make that happen. If you know someone wanting to sell such a block of land privately, let us know about as we can enter into lease with the landowner so members have immediate access to the property while we raise the capital through share ownership.

Take the Next Step

Ready to learn more about how we share the cost of buying land? Watch this introductory video: https://youtu.be/fyNfk1JiSBI or Contact Us and speak to a friendly, helpful human.

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