Mount Cotton sounds like a place with pretty flowers, butterflies, rolling hills and maybe Julie Andrews in her milkmaid dress singing in the background.
But instead of hearing The Sound Of Music, there is the painful noise of tyres screeching.
In one corner are a Porsche Boxster S and a 911 Carrera S dancing around on an oil-stricken course, sideways.
In another area, a Cayenne Turbo is hurtling to a halt from some stupendous speed, its Michelins crying for mercy.
A few hundred metres away, another 911 is zipping around cones, looking a little lost.
In the forested area, there are more Porsches attacking a 3.5km-long closed loop in anger.
Beyond the paved areas, a pair of Cayennes are climbing up muddy trails and fording shallow streams.
This is Mount Cotton Training Centre, a facility operated by the Queensland Transport authority to train drivers.
For about 27 days each year, the place is taken over by the Porsche Sport Driving School (PSDS) to conduct its Precision and Precision Plus courses.
PSDS is also conducted in countries such as Brazil, France and China.
Open to all and not just Porsche owners, the two courses held back to back at Mount Cotton form the foundation to the advanced courses, topping off at Level 5, where participants are coached to lap the Queensland Speedway in the purpose-built 911 GT3 Cup race car.
In this instance, the participants range from a quiet housewife who uses a sport-utility vehicle to ferry her children to hot-shot bankers who want to be even faster behind the wheels of their own Porsches back home.
The coaches at the Australian chapter of PSDS definitely have the credentials to impress and impart knowledge to participants with a need for speed.
The chief instructor is Mr Tomas Mezera, an experienced and successful race driver who has competed in everything from Formula Ford to Japanese GT Series and touring cars.
His mild and calm voice hides his extremely quick pace behind the wheel.
In fact, the team at PSDS are all active race drivers, mostly in the popular Australian Super V8 series.
More often than not, 'advanced driving courses' held by car companies are elaborate marketing efforts in disguise.
Having participants experience the cars in extreme situations is certainly a good way to sell the wares.
PSDS is hardly immune to this. At various opportunities, the coaches will point out the benefits of Porsche's stability management system and how capable the Cayenne's four-wheel-drive is for off-road jaunts.
After spending two full days enthusiastically hustling the cars about, it is hard to deny their abilities whether on the road or off it.
Then again, for most of us at least, the opportunity to be let loose among a fleet of Porsches is already plenty of motivation to part with the A$1,265 (S$1,487) fee for each of the foundation courses. The price excludes flight and accommodation.
Locally, Stuttgart Auto offers complete packages to save the hassle, so those keen on catching the cotton fever can contact them for information on the next available slots.
