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Club Management Chairman Tom Smith [email protected]

Secretary Craig Humphrey [email protected]

Treasurer Robert Tudor [email protected]

Publicity Lionel Mussell

Directors Brian Ward Debbie Cohen Bruce Beausang

Nomad Editorial Team Lionel Mussell Alan Lazarus [email protected]

Webmaster Rob Tudor [email protected]

Returning Officer Barry Konemann

Committee Chairs Budget Camping—Tom Smith

National Marketing Manager—Debbie Cohen

National Muster— Therese Goodwin

Australian Caravan Club Ltd PO Box 631 Patterson Lakes, VIC 3197

www.australiancaravanclub.com.au

The Nomad is a publication of the Austra-lian Caravan Club Limited, it is published for the benefit of club members.

All contributions and suggestions for fu-ture issues are welcomed and can be for-warded to the editor.

The content of this magazine is subject to copyright. No article may be reproduced without permission of the author. We have obtained permission from the copyright holder where a copyright article has been used.

Opinions expressed in any article are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Club Management.

Advertisements in this magazine are paid for by the advertiser. Members and read-ers should not assume that the inclusion of an advertisement is a recommendation as to the suitability or otherwise of the prod-uct or service being advertised.

Cover Photo – Bush Camping at Girgarre(Vic)

(Photo: Alan Lazarus)

Contents Regulars

From the Chair 5 Some words of wisdom from Chairman Tom.

Photo Competition 14 Recent Winners.

Member Benefits 26 Some of the offers and entitlements that your ACC membership gives you.

From the Branches 30 Who went where and did what to whom.

Club Shop 44 More new lines added to the shop catalogue.

Coming Events 46 What’s on at a branch near you.

Branch Contacts 47 Who ‘ya gunna call?

Features

Sharing the Road with 6 Oversize Vehicles Some timely advice for dealing with these “big fellows”

AGFEST 7 The ACC was well represented at this annual Tassie event.

ACC Sydney Explorers 7 The birth process explained for a new branch.

Expenditure Data 10 Our contribution to the economy—keep those forms coming in!

Travels With the Courts 16 Some more snippets from Kesley & David’s travels. This time in southern W.A.

Recipe 28 Peter H shares a favorite

From The Editor G’Day All,

A new print house and new distri-bution process are being used for this issue. Hopefully all of the “bugs” have been squashed, how-ever please let us know if you have any problems, particularly with readability.

Good article in this issue regard-ing sharing the road with oversize vehicles. It has been put together by the pilots that direct such loads and offers us some good advice, particularly with radio usuage.

Also in this issue you will find a nomination form for the upcom-ing Board elections. Two posi-tions become vacant every year, but sadly very few (if any) nomi-nations are made by the general membership. With over 3,000 individual members you would think that there would be no prob-lem in sourcing new talent for the Board—if you can’t think of someone worthy of the position, why not nominate yourself!

National Muster is rapidly ap-proaching, get your registration in now! See you there -

Lazo

NOTE: Deadline for the next (Spring) issue is August 10th,

2014.

Official Business

Elections 13 Nominate your choice for filling the upcoming two vacancies on the Board.

National Muster 18 Registrations for the National Muster close at the end of August, here’s the registration form.

Learning to play the ‘Uke, at Stone the Crows.

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From the Chair At the time of writing this column Sandra and I have just returned from attending the chairman’s muster at Yarrawonga, it was a great weekend with 37 units with members from Cairns to Mel-bourne and all parts in between attending.

We are expecting around 40 to 50 units to join us at Maryborough in June and I am looking forward to catching up with everyone. As chairman I find these musters are very important as it gives mem-bers a chance to come up and talk to me and other board members who might be at-tending and also more importantly it’s a great social event for members from all parts of the club to get to know one another. I try to make the muster as laid back, and low cost as possible - and spontaneous.

Our club is going through a real growth stage at the moment, not just in new memberships and new branches, but also as an organisa-tion to be listened to by other or-ganisations.

While I was in Yarrawonga for the chairman’s muster the local council rang me (I don’t know how they knew I was in town) wanting to meet with me. I ended

up having morning tea with the tourism officer and another member of their staff. They were very interested in some of the information from the member survey instigated during the Mudgee national muster, so thank you to all who went to the trouble of doing the survey either online or at the national muster.

We also used the results of the survey as part of our presentation that I gave at the CRVA confer-ence in Hobart, the topic of the presentation was “What do we want in a Caravan Park”.

The feedback that we have had from those attending the confer-ence has been very positive and we have been encouraged to at-tend the next conference in Mel-bourne next year.

While at the conference the four members who represented ACC took the opportunity to talk to the industry on many issues, in-cluding warranty, service, pay-load and quality of construction, as well as talking to the caravan

park operators on costs and ser-vice.

In one month alone we had 94 new members join the club and also the response from attending the shows is quite impressive.

From the Perth show we have formed a new branch in Perth with the potential to start another one on the books. Plus we are hoping to start two new branches on the New South Wales north

coast in the near future, so it looks like we will have 30 branches in the club by the time the national muster comes around in Lucindale.

With 30 branches in the club, that equates to about 180 branch mus-ters per year and we only have 50 weeks of the year when you take out Christmas, New Year and the national muster, so there is plenty of social activity in the club for members to enjoy the club cama-raderie.

The club has received a very positive comment from a retired truck and bus operator who had read our column in Caravan & Motorhome Magazine, where we mentioned how as a club we are trying to improve RV road eti-quette and therefore trying to make the roads a safer place for everyone.

The board along with the branch support committee has been re-viewing the branch guidelines. As part of the review we sent the draft guidelines to all branches

for comment; we have now re-ceived those com-ments. At the next face-to-face board meeting in June the board will be taking into ac-count these com-ments as we final-ise the branch op-erating proce-dures.

Next year’s mus-ter in Kununurra WA has had 14 units indicate they wish to attend, so we are planning to have one there in June next year. I’m also looking for a spot in New South Wales for a second chairman’s muster next year.

Remember let’s be careful out there and safe travels,

Tom

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Regular travellers on Australia’s highways will see a vast array of vehicles and machinery being transported across the country, but few understand the role that pilot vehicles play in escorting these vehicles. It’s a harsh reality but ignoring these pilots and their large & oversize vehicles can have dire consequences.

These “pilot vehicles” travel our highways with a large yellow sign on the roof, accompanied by yel-low, rotating beacons to warn mo-torists of the approach of an over-size load. Most oversize moves occur during daylight hours, be-tween sunrise and sundown. Only extremely large oversize move-ments may happen at night to avoid disturbing heavier day time traffic. These moves are well lit and are accompanied by a convoy of support vehicles, including po-lice escorts. The truck driver and escorts com-municate on UHF Radio, channel forty. These vehicles can be trav-elling very slowly from sixty kilo-metres an hour to one hundred k i l o m e -tres an hour, de-pend ing on size a n d w e i g h t , and state laws of course. Anything w i d e r than two and a half me-tres is overs i ze , and the truck car-rying this load will be flashing you with bright yellow, rotating beacons and displaying a banner across the front. If you are ap-proaching the rear of such vehicle, you may see a bright yellow bea-con, and warning sign advising

the load is wider than normal. If the load is being escorted by one pilot, it’s wider than three and a half metres. If the load is preceded by more than two pilots and a Police Traffic Escort, the load is huge and you will have to pull over in a safe place off the road. The first pilot vehicle you see may also have alternating flash-ing drive lights known as “wig-wags”. This indicates the load is more than four and a half metres wide. Then there’s the rear pilot. It’s this driver’s job to warn vehicles approaching from the rear of the presence of something big shar-ing the highway ahead. Sharing our roads is the key. A good tip if you are a regular trav-eller of our highways is the use of a UHF radio. It could save your life, or at the very least, your caravan or motorhome. A few stone chips are the least of your worries if you fail to give way to oversize vehicles.

A two-way radio allows you to scan or monitor channel 40 and communicate with the large or oversize vehicles. It’s recom-mended drivers use channel 40 as the “call channel”, and move to other channels for a chat.

There will be strategic informa-tion which you can use to your advantage to make your travels safer. Most of the time the radio language is purely and simply information about road and traffic conditions. There is a very short window of chat opportunity when passing in opposite directions. Some examples of terminology are, “Southbound oversize is 4.5 metres. You may need to back off and make some room.” Another example, “Copy in the caravan? We have six me-tres. Please find a safe place to pull over.” In some states, particularly in Western Australia, oversize vehi-cles can travel in convoy. So the call from the Pilot may be, “Copy southbound? We have two at four and a half metres.” In most circumstances the pilot or truck driver will instruct you how to safely negotiate the wide load from either direction with safe negotiation as the priority. It is in the motorist’s best interest to communicate with the pilot and truck driver. It’s a simple matter of calling up on channel 40. They will do everything in

their power to keep eve-ryone in the vicinity of the load as safe as pos-sible. Your c o -o p e r a t i o n will make their job much eas-ier. If they don’t see any indica-tion you’re waiting to

o v e r t a k e , you may stay

behind the convoy for more kilo-metres than you had planned. So be on the lookout for pilot ve-hicles and their oversize loads and share the road safely for a better traveling experience for all.

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Sharing The Road With Oversize Vehicles

Reproduced with the kind permission of the National Pilot Vehicles Drivers Association.

Sharing the Australian highways with very big loads is part of the adventure of travel.

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Held at the Rural Youth Centre at Carrick in Northern Tasmania, the Tassie Travellers manned a Show Stand for the ACC. Seven hun-dred and sixty exhibitors attracted almost 60,000 people over three days & we had our share. We

talked to about 200 people, handed out 187 applications, signed up about 15 on the day with many opting to join online because of application details & payment methods.

Topics & issues were similar to any caravan group with the Spirit of Tasmania access & cost being top of the list. Much forum com-ment on the Spirit revolves around visitors to Tasmania---spare a thought for Tasmanians heading for the warmer climes-we battle for a booking as much or more than you as visitors. We believe access & capacity relief may be in sight, we’ll keep you posted.

ACC lobbying efforts, KIT & Lone Trekkers, the benefits of Branches in all States, budget camping, Insurance & a myriad of other topics kept six of us busy. It was interesting to see people ac-tively seeking us out, looking for advice & asking questions. No touting needed!

The Show has provided good publicity for the ACC, showed us where we can expand as a Branch, & highlighted the grow-ing RV community. Worth all our efforts with a big thank you for all the advice we received in the lead up & a great team effort from our volunteers.

If you get a chance to visit AG-FEST while you’re in Tasmania,

do so. It’s held at the same time each year with exhibitors catering for every possible interest-it’s not just an agricul-tural field day, it attracts as many townies as country people.

The young people of Rural Youth run an exceptional event-it’s worth a visit to see how they make it all happen, & contribute $30M to the economy on the way.

The way they run the car parking in paddocks has to be seen to be believed!

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Some early planning and numer-ous discussions supported the de-cision to go ahead with the deci-sion to form a new Branch, cli-maxing in a formation Muster that was held at the Budgewoi Holiday Park 14 to 16 March 2014. The initial hope was that there would be something like ten interested members who would be interested in forming this new branch. With that decision made several enthusiastic members of the existing ACC Sydney City Slickers (ACC SCS) Branch set about making contact with those individuals who had no direct al-legiance to any Branch in the Sydney region at this time. Of course, there were the usual numbers of concerns voiced by the possible new memberssuch

as: where would the new Branch be located; what was the name of this Branch; who would be re-sponsible for the overall admini-stration of the Branch; and what cost was involved in joining the Branch. There were even con-cerns voiced to the effect that the individuals had never travelled as a group with their caravan, or they were unsure as to whether the new venture was really what they were looking for in the world of caravan travel. Regardless of the numerous ques-tions that were fielded by those making the initial enquiries with potential customers, we had a very enthusiastic and wonderful response with 28 potential new

AGFEST 2014

(Rod Barwick)

ACC Sydney Explorers

(Noel Bradford)

From very humble beginnings, the number of interested mem-bers in the Sydney region had finally grown too large for the inaugural ACC Branch (Sydney City Slickers) and a second Branch was now beckoning to announce its arrival on the world. Following on from some early enquiries at the very suc-cessful Mudgee National Muster, a decision was made to establish a second ACC Branch in the Sydney region.

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members expressing their interest in joining with this new venture. Of those 28 potential candidates, 16 ‘van’ owners fronted up on the day to bring the dreams of a new Branch to fruition.

In the typical ACC manner of ‘doing things’, this magnificent new group of RV enthusiasts were introduced into the realms of fun, community, travel, exploration and exhilaration. The weekend kicked off on the Friday with the usual round of activities including a ‘friendly’ game of Washer Tosser followed by Finska; on to the friendly banter of Happy Hour and culminating in a communal Sausage Sizzle at the Camp Kitchen. Of course, there were also the many introductions and the usual round of welcomes, even a short speech from our President Rick, but the group remained en-thusiastic. Saturday was the big day for the new Branch formation and it be-gan with a game of Ladder Golf. In itself, that event proved to be so popular with several iterations of the competitions and a few cou-ples struggling to make lunch – prior to the inaugural meeting. From the relaxation of friendly rivalry on the sporting field, it was now on to the ‘cut and thrust’ of forming a committee from the new members.The Slickers team (Rick Lewis - President, Brad Bradford - VP and Lorraine Theo-dorus - Secretary, and (as always) ably supported by the diminutive dynamo Deb Cohen) ran the for-mation meeting and were re-warded with a new committee. That new committee consists of: President – Ms Chris Lawton; Secretary – Ms Linda Armour; Treasurer – Mr David Gardner; and Muster Coordinator – Ms Gail Stewart. Then it was on to naming the Branch. At the end of the day,

and with a final list of 15 names to choose from, the new Branch members have expressed their preference for “ACC Sydney Ex-plorers”, with ‘ACC Sydney Western Travellers’ as a back-up. With that welcoming news, the new Branch was born (I mean

formed) and was off and run-ning. Whilst the celebratory Happy Hour saw a good deal of laughter and merriment, the first ‘outing’ was also quickly planned with a Muster to be con-ducted at Norah Head. That deci-sion also saw several of the com-mittee venture out to conduct a ‘recce of the area’ and subse-quently returning to brief the new members on what they could anticipate when they at-tend this first muster. That evening it was time to relax with the hard work done – a communal dinner with all parties joining in and ‘yarning’ quite a few hours away, spinning stories of adventures that they had pre-viously enjoyed and quickly voicing options for potential Musters and Tagalongs for this

enthusiastic new group. The weekend culminated the next day (Sunday) with a communal break-fast enjoyed by all, and of course the mandatory spirit of competi-tion – a game of Boules to em-bolden the spirit of community and friendship that is so readily apparent in this new Branch. On behalf of the ACC community in general, congratulations and a big welcome is extended to this new Branch (the ACC Sydney Explorers). From a Slickers per-spective, it was an honour and a privilege to host and welcome-these new members into the posi-

tive delights of what the ACC has to offer, and to introduce them to the many joys that this new group will experience as new friend-ships are made and the spirit of community and connection grows within the group. Finally, may I also extend a spe-cial vote of thanks to the Slickers members who worked so tire-lessly to see this undertaking come to fruition. Your help and assistance has been wonderful and we are so grateful that you are members of our fraternity. Be assured that the formation of this new Branch could not have been achieved so successfully without your unquestioned offers of assis-tance.

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Owners and Code of Conduct

Signatories

Springers Solar, a Brisbane based service and product pro-vider in both the recreational vehicle and solar markets has opened its new retail centre in Capalaba.

Chief executive Brian Springer said the new store is located at 120 Redland Bay Rd, Capalaba and is easily identifiable be-cause it’s been painted in the Springers’ green colour scheme.

“The new store has allowed us to expand our business and we

now provide an installation and service centre on both the north and south sides of Brisbane.

The convenience of this means that our auto electricians can fix and install products onsite, while our customers are kept cool and comfortable in our waiting area,” said Brian.

Michael Springer, who is the Ca-palaba store manager said Springers Solar stand behind the products and services they offer.

“We are one of only eight signa-tories to the CEC Solar PV Re-tailer Code of Conduct that was launched last year by the Federal Environment Minister,” he said.

“What this means to our custom-ers is that they can be assured our business is financially sound

Expenditure Databases. (Keith Males) Two Expenditure databases are now in operation, one for National Musters and one for General Musters and a summary of the re-sults so far is set out below. Mudgee National Muster

As you can see the spend per day figures of the actual expenditure sheets correlate quite well with the base registration details. General Musters First, a big thank you, to those members who have submitted expense sheets, as this data is vital to our many discussions with State , Councils and RV representative bodies. Please keep up the good work, making sure there is a membership number, start and end date and number of days in Caravan Parks and OtherCamps - missing data affects the integrity of the database. Unfortunately a number of submissions had incomplete data and could not be used.

No. of expenditure sheets per RV submitted 161 Total spend to district of 161 RV's $173,420.89

Average spend per RV $1,077.15

No of days at Muster [161 RV's] 1482

Average spend per day at Muster $117.02

Data from Registration Excel sheets

Actual no. of RV's on site 212

No of days at Muster [212 RV's] 1870

Extrapolated spend to district ie 212 RV's $228,355.46

Extrapolated spend per RV per day $122.12

Year Cara-van Parks

Other Camps

Fuel Grocer-ies

Repair Main

Eating Out

Medical Chemist

Tour-ism

Misc Daily Spend

2013 $24.70 $1.59 $27.89 $17.30 $3.07 15.59 $1.14 $6.03 $16.50

$113.82

%21.70

%1.40 %24.50

%15.20 %2.70 %13.7 %1.00 %5.30 %14.5 %100

"Combined Expense sheets MUST state individual start and stop dates, AND number of RV's at-tending the Muster, to be useful"

and that we follow all relevant consumer protection laws.

It also means we comply with best practice requirements such as, providing a 5-year whole of system warranty on workmanship and all products, providing a site-specific, daily average perform-ance estimate for each month of the year on systems, ensuring our sales representatives act ethically at all times, and not engaging in any dishonest or misleading ad-vertising and sales tactics,”said Michael.

Springers Solar also operate a retail centre on the north side of Brisbane in Lawnton.

Telephone: 3889 8898 www.springers.com.au

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Thistlebank ‐ 12465 Gurya Road, Tingha NSW 2369. Email [email protected] Home Ph—02 6723 3303 Mob—0429 870 823 Contact Tom & Sandra Smith

Beechworth Farm Stay 1399 Woolshed Road Beechworth Vic 3747 email [email protected] Home Ph—03 5728 1464 Mob—0400 771 454 Contact Allan & Vicki Davis

Googoomara ‐ Herbert Park Road, Armidale NSW 2350

[email protected] Home Ph—02 6775 1722 Mob—0428 510 808 Contact Lola Beaton

Greg’s At Givelda ‐ 664 Pine Creek Road, Bundberg QLD 4670 email [email protected] Mobile Ph ‐ 0416 209 952 Contact Greg & Christine Lawson

Leopards Den 10A Costin Street Narooma NSW 2546 email [email protected] Home Ph ‐02 4476 2880 Mob ‐ 0419 139 127 Contact Chris & Di Woods

Lower Heart 165 Lower Heart Road Sale VIC 3850 email [email protected] Home—Ph 03 5144 4174 Mob ‐0408514790 Contact Derek & Gwen Hale

Meadow Creek 1207 Moyhu Meadow Creek Road, Meadow Creek, VIC 3732

email [email protected] Home Ph ‐03 5729 5558 Contact Alex & Dot Mark

Narrabri Farm Stay 79 Tomlinson Lane Narrabri NSW 2309 email [email protected] Mob Ph—0427 255 442 Contact Liz Tomlinson

Notre Maison 130 Sittella Road Howard Springs N.T. 0835 email [email protected] Mob—0403 800 865 Contact Lindsay & Imelda Davis

Port Curtis 109 Jelicoe Street Port Curtis QLD 4700 email [email protected] Home Ph 07 4922 6809 Mob 0427 684 021 Contact Glenn Raine

The Cams At Tamworth 1265 Manilla Road Tamworth 2340 email [email protected] Mob Ph 0428 608 162 Contact John & Loretta Cam

ACC Farm Stay Our farm-stay scheme is growing slowly , but surely! All it needs to help it grow more is YOU!

Following is a list of the current bank of hosts. They are ready and willing to make you welcome, so why not give it a go—you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

One of the special events at “Stone The Crows” this year was a reading of a play “Voices from Gallipoli” Katelyn & Jim (the author) supported by a trio from the local university gave an emotional rendition, which promoted

many a teary eye among the appreciative audience.

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Nomination Form As eligible members of the Australian Caravan Club Limited we hereby nominate: _______________________________________ for the position of: ___________________ in the Company. (Name of Nominee) (Position No.)

Nominator 1: Member Number: _____________ Nominator 2: Member Number: _______________ Name:__________________________________ Name: __________________________________ Signature: _______________________________ Signature: ________________________________ Statement of Acceptance I, _____________________________________Member Number:_____________being a financial member

(Name of Nominee)

of the Australian Caravan Club Limited, accept nomination for the position of ________________________ in the Company.

Signed : ____________________________________________ Date: _____/ _____ / __________

Election of Directors to the Board of the Australian Caravan Club Ltd. (ACN 121 300 856)

2014

I have been appointed Returning Officer for the election of Directors to the Board of the Australian Caravan Club Ltd.

In accordance with the club’s Constitution there are two Board positions to be elected this year (2014). The current incumbents are: Mr. Brian Ward (Position No.—DP2) and Ms. Deborah Cohen (Position No.—DP3).

Nominations are invited from eligible members (Financial Ordinary Member or Honorary Life Member) for the above positions.

For a nomination to be valid it must be made in writing and signed by at least two financial members entitled to vote at a general meeting, and be accompanied by a written statement from the nominee confirming their acceptance of the nomination. A nomination form is included below.

Nominations MUST include: ♦ Name ♦ Postal Address ♦ ACC Membership Number ♦ Signature of the nominee and all nominators ♦ Statement of acceptance by the nominee ♦ A brief (up to 100 words) CV or resume, accompanied by a recent photograph of the

nominee, which will be inserted with ballot papers.

Nominations, acceptance and statements must be lodged by mail or hand delivered to the Returning Officer no later than 12 noon on Friday, 25th July, 2014. Nominations received after this date will not be accepted unless clearly postmarked not less than one day prior to the closing date.

Nominations together with acceptance and other information must be sent to: The Returning Officer 75 Green Street Bathurst, NSW 2795

Should a ballot be necessary, a postal ballot shall be conducted. Please contact me by mail to the above ad-dress or email to [email protected] should you have any questions related to the conduct of the elec-tion.

Barry Konemann Returning Officer

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Photography Competition

Fancy yourself as a bit of a “dab” hand with the camera? Why not enter the ACC Photography Com-petition and show off your master-pieces to an appreciative audi-ence!

To enter the competition you need to belong to the “Monthly Photo Competition” group, on the ACC Website. To join the group go to the “Campfire” / “Groups”/”All Groups” and select the “Monthly Photo Competition” group, and select “Join Group”. You only have to do this once.

To post an image, go to the “Monthly Photo Competition” group, select the current Competi-tion Album (e.g. January Compe-tition” and simply post your im-age.

All members have the chance to vote for the picture they think is the best, by clicking on the “like” or “don't like” buttons that ap-pear on each picture. At the end of the month the winner is the picture with the most “likes”.

As well as the monthly competi-tion, there is also a quarterly competition.

The monthly winner gets to nominate the picture subject for the month after next (e.g. Janu-ary’s winner nominates the sub-ject for the March competition, and so on). Each month’s winner then goes into the quarterly com-petition, with the overall winner receiving a BEST water Filter—kindly donated by Colin Hop-good. Monthly winning entries will also be published in the No-mad.

Don’t be mistaken—this is no easy contest—just check out the

entries received so far, the quality of some would rival the works of many professional photographers! There are some really talented people out there in ACC-land.

Pictured are the winning entries for February, March, and April as nominated by you. (You did vote, didn’t you?)

So go to it! Get clicking away and show us what you, and your trusty camera are capable of. Might even be a good idea to dig out the handbook that came with your camera to ensure that you are getting the best from the little beast. When I worked for a living w e h a d a n a c r o n y m “RTFM” (Read the flaming’ manual!) You never know, you might learn a thing or two!

(Tip: You can vote for your own-photo’s—how cool is that!)

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The letter box in a thunder box gave Des & Yvonne victory in February.

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Ian & Lyn took out April’s theme of “Reflections” with this shot of the Ord River (WA)

Vinnie & Kat really captured the windy west coast at Geraldton (WA) for the “Tree” theme in March.

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Travels With the Courts

(Kesley & David Court)

We finally moved on from Man-durah, but not too far, to Bunbury - very similar to Mandurah, but smaller, with a very attractive wa-terfront.

Bunbury waterfront

We then moved on to Augusta, at the very south western tip of the country, to meet up with fellow Phoenix owners, Bev & Dave.

We last saw them 4 years ago in Mareeba at the start of the Over the Top Muster they were leading to some remote parts of the top end. Their home base is their for-mer dairy farm which was de-stocked over 10 years ago and leased to a company for growing plantation timber. 320 acres of blue gums surround the farm buildings and the old dairy has been converted to a camp kitchen.

While David set up camp, Bev & I drove 80 kms to Busselton with her 2 West Highland White terri-ers, Lily & Sky, to her dog train-ing class which is rehearsing for a display at the Busselton Agricul-tural Show. Within a day we were joined by our friends, Colleen and Laurie, who had also been at Mandurah. Our first full day was spent with our hosts taking us on a tour of the local area – Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse, where we could see the Indian Ocean meet the South-ern Ocean, Flinders Bay, etc. We had lunch together at the local bakery. We went our separate ways the next day, doing our own thing. David & I headed north to Mar-garet River for lunch, then on to Busselton.

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Harvey and Stirling Cottage has a tribute to her.

Snugglepot & Cuddlepie created by May Gibbs

The gardens around the cottage are a delight. At our visit, many shrubs and trees were flowering and the roses were blooming. The ducks were happily swim-ming along the creek and fol-lowed us as we walked along the path, looking for a handout.

Stirling Cottage, Harvey

Gardens at Stirling Cottage, Harvey

We continued inland to the coal mining town of Collie then south and west through Donnybrook which is surrounded by vine-yards and apple orchards. The apple trees were covered in blos-soms. So, too, are the pepper-mint trees, which have a willow like appearance and are covered in tiny white flowers.

We enjoyed Mandurah so much; we kept extending our stay – 4 times in all. It seems to be part of an urban sprawl all the way from Perth, through Fremantle, Rock-ingham and south of Mandurah. It’s much like the Brisbane to Gold Coast corridor without the traffic jams and high rise. Man-durah seems to be an affluent area with a large boat ownership, if the marinas are any indication. Many marina developments have been built over recent years and each home seems to have a boat parked at the back doorstep. We did a harbour cruise and saw many lux-ury homes, some occupied, some with overseas owners who spend the summer in Mandurah.

Rockingham beachfront

David managed several golf games at different courses in the area. We caught up with his cousin Helen and her daughter, son in law & children several times. We spent one day driving through the countryside north and east. It’s a rich dairying area with lush green fields, & cheese factory where we sampled the local pro-duce (and purchased some). The town of Harvey, at the centre of the dairy industry, also has con-nections to May Gibb, children’s author and illustrator, best known for the characters Snugglepot and Cuddlepie and the gumnut babies. She spent part of her childhood in

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MUSTER INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES

ACC 8th Annual National Muster Arrivals and Departure You are encouraged to arrive BEFORE the Muster commences. Why not come early to enjoy what the Limestone Coast Area has to offer. This will give the opportunity to explore the many towns, wineries and sightseeing spots that are the highlights of the region. The Yakka Park site will open from 9 am FRIDAY 10th October and must be vacated by noon MONDAY 20th October. Notification of Muster Office hours will be included in your Booking Confirmation. Muster Venue and Facilities Yakka Park, Centenary Ave, Lucindale SA. Office Phone 08 8766 7001 GPS – 36.97, 140.36 Website http://www.southeastfielddays.com.au All sites are Flat, Grassed and 10 m x 10 m in area and will have Power and Water close at hand. There are plenty of Toilet facilities and one large Shower block for men and women. There is a Laundry adjacent to the shower block. The Muster Office has NO EFTPOS facility however Credit card payments will be accepted. Registrations Close Registrations close on 31st AUGUST 2014. Late registrations may be subject to a late registration fee, at the discretion of the ACC Board. Payment In order to assist with Muster planning and the booking of meals and activities, it is requested that ALL Muster Fees be prepaid at the time of registration. However should you not be able to pay fees in full at the time of registration, then please contact the ACC Secre-tary by phone 1800 734 493 or [email protected] Registrations Fee A registration fee of $30 per person is charged. This fee covers administration costs, licensing, hire of equipment, rubbish removal, entertainment and free activities costs at the Muster. Badges Lucindale 2014 National Muster Badges will be provided on arrival and MUST be worn at all times. Wearing your badge will help us identify our members and promote good fellowship. Please feel free to also wear your own Branch ID. Please wear them when out and about so that our local supporters know you are with the National Muster. Members please bring along your own lanyard or neck strap to attach the badge. Non Members are not permitted to attend “member only” events. Communal Meals Welcome Breakfast - Full Hot and Cold breakfast including juice, tea and coffee. BYO Cups, plates and cutlery. Evening Meal - Hot meal. BYO plates and cutlery.. Dinner dance – 2 courses of main meal and dessert. BYO Nibbles and Drinks, Glasses, plates and cutlery. Trading and Selling of Wares Members will not be permitted to setup independently to sell their goods and/or services at the Muster. For members wishing to trade or provide service the following will be available to do so. Have a Stall at the Community Country Market. ACC members need to register as a trader so that you can trade throughout the Muster. (Please complete a Trade Registration Form) Community Country Market This market will be held in the large Lions Jubilee Shed on Sunday 12th October 9am till 3 pm. There will be stalls selling wonderful local produce, wine and crafts. To add to the atmosphere there will be music by local entertain-ers. This will be a great starter for the Muster. Should members wish to have a stall then you MUST tick the box on the Registration Form at the time of registration. Car Wash The Childhood Cancer Association will run a carwash outside the Jubilee Shed Market area. Please support this good cause by do-nating generously.

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Livestock Exchange Tour Come along for a visit to the Naracoorte Regional Livestock Exchange. View the saleyards and see how the country folk go about their business. Hear all the noise of the auctioneers at work and see the cattle in the flesh. Two buses have been booked and mem-bers should get in quickly as seats are limited. The tour is approx 115 km. Tour the Region Wednesday has been placed aside for the Muster attendees to go off site and replenish their stocks and do a bit of shopping in the nearest large town of Naracoorte. A tour has been planned the will leave the Lucindale muster site at 9 am. The route will take in the township of Penola, home of Saint Mary MacKillop, one of the Coonawarra wineries and then stopover for a while in Naracoorte to “Shop and Stock”. The tour will culminate at Yakka Park around 3 pm. Again members should get booked in early as seats are limited. The tour is approx 200 km. Tag a Long Tour Join a Tag a Long to explore the local area of Lucindale. It will be fun filled morning culminating at a picnic spot for lunch. Car pool (4 heads are better than 2) and bring along BYO lunch and something to sit on. Twilight Barefoot Bowls Play barefoot bowls at the local Lucindale Bowling Club. The Club will coordinate the competition and give out the winners prizes. Following the bowls the Club will provide a tasty country style dinner. You can choose to play bowls, come for dinner or do both. Golf Day The Lucindale Country Club will be the venue for the Golf Day. The course is undulating and a good test of golf. The players’ fee includes greenfees and a light lunch. Non players are welcome to “caddie” or just come for the lunch. A semi shotgun start will en-sure the game does not take up to much time. “Acey Squares” Naracoorte Square Dancing Club, Do-Se-Do Swing your partner, Audience participation, Basic moves will be instructed; Ladies bring your skirts and wear comfortable shoes, Casual night. Craft Workshops Two morning sessions have been scheduled for members to come along, learn a new skill or perhaps share their skills with others. It will also be an opportunity to meet at chat with others. A cost of $5 to $10 will pay for materials. No prior booking required. Games on the Green “The Green” will be a hive of activity most afternoons. Competitions in Finska, Petanque (Boules) and Ladder Golf will be available for members to partake and enjoy friendly competition. Just circle the box on your Registration Form to indicate you would like to play. Note: Finska are a supporter of the ACC National Musters. Pets The Yakka Park site is Pet Friendly. Pets are welcome however the following rules, as per the ACC Pet Policy, shall be adhered to whilst in attendance at the National Muster.

All pets must be restrained on a short leash (no longer than 2 m) or in a cage at all times at the Muster site outside your accom-modation.

Owners must clean up after their pets. Pets are not permitted in any areas where food is being prepared or served. Pets are not permitted at indoor group gatherings or meetings Pets must not be a nuisance to other guests at the Muster site. Pets must not be left unattended either inside or outside your RV if they have a tendency to bark, squawk etc and disturb the

peace. Dogs that have a tendency to snap or bite should be muzzled when in public. Pet owners agree to take full responsibility for any personal injury or damage caused by their pets whilst in the confines of the

Muster site and agree to pay for any claims for compensation in relation to their pets activities. The only exception to the above rules applies to seeing eye dogs for the visually impaired. They will be permitted in areas out-lined in points 3 and 4 above. Any complaints regarding pet behaviour should be directed to the Muster organisers.

Dog off Leash area There will be an off leash area just outside the Muster site perimeters, within a short walk from the accommodation areas. Dog Kennels There are two local Dog Boarding Kennels local to Lucindale. They are, Struan Boarding Kennels, Grant's Ridge, Riddoch Highway, Naracoorte SA, Phone( 08) 8764 7529 Griffinrowe Kennels, Fitzgerald Rd, Hatherleigh SA, Phone (08) 8735 9075

Enquiries regarding the Annual National Muster should be directed to: By email [email protected] or by phone on 1800 734 493

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REGISTRATION FORM ACC 8th Annual National Muster

Please use BLOCK letters (Write clearly) Members Surname ____________________________ Preferred FIRST Name for Badge _________________________ Partners Surname ____________________________ Preferred FIRST Name for Badge _________________________ Additional Names_____ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ACC Membership number ___________________ ACC Branch ______________________________________________ Preferred Town where you live for your Name Badge____________________________________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS Number and Street _______________________________________________________________________________________ Suburb / Town _____________________________________________ __________ State _______ Postcode ___________ Home phone ____________________________________ Mobile phone__________________________________________ Email _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your RV OVERALL length (Tow hitch or front bumper to rear bumper) _______ metres How many ACC National musters have you attended? Please circle none, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Does your RV have a shower? YES / NO and a Toilet? YES / NO Are you a CURRENT FIRST AIDER YES / NO If YES are you willing to be on the First Aid Roster YES / NO Would you like to participate in the following activities? Boules Competition YES / NO Number of people PLAYING _______ Finska Competition YES / NO Number of people PLAYING _______ Ladder Golf Competition YES / NO Number of people PLAYING _______ TAG A LONG, Tour YES / NO Number of people participating _______ Craft Workshops YES / NO Number of people participating _______ Please tick the crafts workshop you are interested in: Card Making. Hand/Machined (Own machine required) Patchwork. Xmas Decorations Cross Stitch/ Embroidery. Knitting/ Crocheting. Would you like to suggest a Craft to be included _________________________________________________________________

List any other relevant information, special requests and medical needs __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

DIETARY REQUIREMENTS, Please indicate WHAT FOODS YOU CANNOT EAT. □ Tick this Box for further contact

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MUSTER FEES

“Yakka Park” will open for RV entrances from FRIDAY 10th Oct till MONDAY 20th Oct 2014

Arrival Date / 10 / 2014 Departure Date / 10 / 2014

Please complete the Registration Form and either: Post to the Secretary, Australian Caravan Club, PO Box 631 Patterson Lakes, Vic 3197 Fax to 1800 734 493 OR Email [email protected] This is your invoice. Please print or make a copy if you require. Payment will be confirmed when payment is received. CHEQUE: Post completed Registration Form and enclose your cheque payable to Australian Caravan Club

CREDIT CARD: Please complete the credit card details below

Type of card VISA MASTERCARD Name on Card _________________________________

Card Number __________________________________

Expiry Date ________ Security Number__________ (Three digits on back of card)

DIRET DEBIT: Bendigo bank A/C Name: Australian Caravan Club, BSB 633-108 Account No: 130 553 498 Please indicate you ACC Membership Number and the words “National Muster” in the reference field.

Please advise the Secretary if you are bringing NON MEMBER GUESTS along

For details of REFUND conditions and programming please see Muster Information and Guidelines.

Number Each Total

Registration Fee ( $30 per person ) $ 30 $

Site Fees ( $23 per night ) $ 23 $

Communal Welcome Breakfast on Tuesday ( $ 8 per per-son ) $ 8 $

Communal Evening Meal on Friday ( $ 10 per person ) $ 10 $

Dinner Dance on Saturday ( $ 28 per person ) $ 28 $

Dinner Dance on Saturday ( $ 15 per child 5-15 yrs ) $ 15 $

Visit to Naracoorte Regional Livestock Exchange on Tues-day 115 km (Bus $ 8 per person)

$ 8 $

Bus Tour to Naracoorte via Penola on Wednesday 200 km (Bus cost $ 15 per person) $ 15 $

Golf Day on Thursday ( $ 22 per player includes greenfee and lunch ) $ 22 $

Golf Day ($ 8 per NON player lunch ONLY) $ 8 $

Barefoot Bowls on Tuesday ($ 5 per player) $ 5 $

Dinner at Bowls on Tuesday ($ 12 per person) $ 12 $

TOTAL FEES $

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CURRENT MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

It has become apparent that many members—particularly our newer members are not fully aware of the many benefits that their membership entitles them to. Here’s the current list. To keep up to date, simply log on to the club website, then click on “The Club”, and then “Member Benefits”.

All members are encouraged to patronize the businesses listed, they have been generous in supporting the ACC, and in turn warrant our support. There is an old adage that we need to bear in mind—it goes along the lines of “Use it or lose it”!

ALL ABOUT AUTO www.allaboutauto.com.au [email protected] 20% discount on purchases

NO BOUNDARIES * www.noboundaries.com.au [email protected] Specials as advertised.

B.E.S.T. WATER FILTERS * Ph: 1800 240 822 www.bestwaterfilters.com.au [email protected] Free water alerts and advice.

CAMPING BUG Ph: 02 6762 7184 www.campingbug.com.au 10% off anything on website Use code “Nomad” or call

CAMPS AND VANS Ph: 0416 043 492 www.campsandvans.com [email protected] $5.00 off subscription.

CELLERMASTERS www.cellarmasters.com.au/cmcommunity 5% discount

ENGINESAFE Ph: 1300 764 476 www.enginesafe.com.au [email protected] 10% discount on purchases Quote “Nomad13” when ordering

GSL ELECTRONICS Ph: 02 9620 9988 www.gsl.com.au [email protected]

HITCH-EZY Ph: 0407 246 407 www.hitch-ezy.com 5% discount

NATIONAL BENEFITS

NOVUS WINDSCREEN REPAIRS www.novusautoglass.com.au [email protected] 10% discount on all Novus products and services.

NRMA PUBLISHING Ph: 1300 782 312 23% off subscription to Australian Caravan + RV.

OZLINKED Ph: 03 9020 3496 www.ozlinked.com.au [email protected] Partnership telecommunications ar-rangement with ACC.

THE HOSEBAG * Ph: 0438 385 622 www.thehosebag.com.au [email protected]

TYRECHECKERS Ph: 1300 789 549 or 0408 778 492 www.tyrecheckers.com.au [email protected] 20% off LED and Mechanical Tyre-checkers, and deals on In-Dash Tyre-dog TPMS by phone. Online offer when you type “Nomad” in the promo code section of the web checkout page.

ULTRA TUNE AUSTRALIA www.ultratune.com.au 10% off the local retail price of “Ultra Manufacturers Handbook Service”, “Ultra Minor Service”, and “Ultra Ma-jor Service” at any of the 260 nation-wide locations.

SOUTHERN METAL SPINNERS Ph: 08 8382 6990 www.southern-metal-spinners.com.au [email protected] 20% off Dr. Livingstone range.

QUEENSLAND

BESTS CARAVAN SERVICE 6/23 NissenSt, Pialba, Hervey Bay Ph: 07 4124 7166 [email protected] 3% discount on products and services

BORUMBA FISHING& OUTDOORS 111 Yabba Road, Imbil, Qld 4570 Ph: 07 5484 5303 www.borumbafishing.com.au [email protected] 10% 0n orders of $50 or more.

SUNCOAST CARAVAN SERVICE * 17 Fishermans Road, Maroochydore, Qld 4558 Ph: 07 5443 1036 www.suncoastcaravanservice.com.au [email protected] 10% discount on all items including spare parts.

ESSENTIAL R.V. 14 Glendale Ave, Hastings, Vic 3915 Ph: 03 5979 3393 www.essentialrv.com.au [email protected] 10% discount off RV accessories, cara-van servicing.

VICTORIA

N.S.W.

R&J BATTERIES 1/7 McIlwraith St, Wetherill Park, NSW 2164 Ph: 02 9616 3200 www.rjbatt.com.au [email protected] 10% off any purchase.

LANDBASE AUSTRALIA Ph: 0408686 461 www.landbase.com.au [email protected] 12 months rego for 6 months fee for new clients.

POWER BY NATURE 0414 246 535 www.pxn.com.au [email protected]

INVERELL BOATS & CARAVANS Ph: 02 6721 2211 www.tohatsu.com.au/content/inverell-boats-caravans [email protected]

SOUTH AUST.

JAYCO MT. GAMBIER Ph: 08 87256122 www.jaycomtgambier.com.au [email protected]

For more information visit

australiancaravanclub.com.au

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ACC PREFERRED CARAVAN PARKS

NATIONAL

ASPEN PARKS All sites nationally www.aspenparks.com.au

N.S.W.

ATPM Escape 2 Holiday Parks www.atpm.com.au

BALLINA Ballina Lakeside Caravan Park 02 6686 3953

BOYDTOWN via EDEN Twofold Bay Beach Resort 1800 631 006

BUCKENDERRA Buckenderra Holiday Park 02 6453 7242

CAREY BAY Paradise Palms Holiday Village 02 4959 1271

COWRA Cowra Holiday Park 02 6342 2666

DUBBO Big 4 Dubbo Parklands 1800 033 072

MOAMA A Shady River Holiday Park 1800 674 239

MOAMA Horseshoe Lagoon Holiday Park 03 5482 2320

HUSKISSON Jervis Bay Cabins & Hidden Creek Real Camping 02 4441 5809

INVERELL Sapphire City Caravan Park * 02 6722 1830

MOAMA Maiden’s Inn Holiday Park 1800 356 801

MURRURUNDI Murrurundi Caravan Park 02 6546 6288

NUNDLE Fossickers Tourist Park 02 6769 3355

NORTH TUNCURRY Wallamba River Holiday Park 1800 268 176

SOUTH MAITLAND Coachstop Caravan Park 02 4933 2950

PEAK HILL Peak Hill Caravan Park 02 6869 1422

TERALBA Teralba Lakeside Caravan Park 02 4958 5370

TWEED HEADS Pyramid Holiday Park 1800 617 323 or 07 5536 3666

CHARTERS TOWERS Charters Towers Tourist Park 1800 357 944

BOYNE ISLAND Boyne Island Caravan Park 07 4976 8888

QLD

FISHERY FALLS Fishery Falls Holiday Park 07 4067 5283

HAZELDEAN Lake Somerset Holiday Park 07 5497 1093

KURRIMINE BEACH Kurrimine Beach Holiday Park 1300 725 525

STANTHORPE Stanthorpe Top of the Town Tourist Park * Ph: 07 4681 4888

GUNBOWER Gunbower Caravan Park 03 5487 1412

TAS

LAKE BOLAC Lake Bolac Caravan & Tourist Park * 03 5350 2329

MILDURA Palms Caravan Park 03 5023 1774

VIC

Entries marked with an * are operated by ACC members.

BOMBAH POINT Myall Shores Holiday Park 02 4997 4457

CAIRNS Cairns Holiday Park 1800 559 800

GIG GIN Lake Monduran Holiday Park 1800 988 532

MARYBOROUGH Huntsville Caravan Park 07 4121 4075

PALM COVE Palm Cove Holiday Park 1800 736 640

S.A.

PORT AUGUSTA Port Augusta BIG4 Holiday Park 1800 833 444

ROXBY DOWNS Myall Grove Holiday Park 1800 356 103

VICTOR HARBOUR Victor Harbour Beachfront Holiday Park 1800 609 079

LAKES ENTRANCE Eastern Beach Holiday Park 1800 761 762

PORT ARTHUR Port Arthur Holiday Park 1800 607 057

More, on the next page!

BELMONT Geelong Riverview Tourist Park 1800 336 225

BRAYBROOK Ashley Gardens BIG4 Holiday Village 1800 061 444

BRIGHT Bright Holiday Park 03 5755 1141

EBDEN Boathaven Holiday Park 1800 352 982

ECHUCA Yarraby Holiday Park 1800 222 052

MILDURA Golden River Holiday Park 1800 621 262

KERANG Ibis Caravan Park 03 5452 2232

PORT CAMPBELL Port Campbell Holiday Park 1800 505 466

BARCALDINE Barcaldine Homestead Caravan Park 07 4651 1308

Hey Everyone—Use

Them, or Lose Them.

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RUTHERGLEN Rutherglen Caravan & Tourist Park02 6032 8577

RAVENSTHORPE Ravensthorpe Caravan Park 08 9838 1050

W.A.

PORTLAND Portland Bay Holiday Park 1800 622 005

TAWONGA SOUTH Mount Beauty Holiday Centre 03 5754 4396

CAVERSHAM Perth Vineyards Holiday Park 1800 679 992

COOGEE Coogee Beach Holiday Park 1800 817 016

CORAL BAY Ningaloo Reef Resort 1800 795 522

EXMOUTH Exmouth Cape Holiday Park 1800 621 101

KARRATHA Balmoral Holiday Park 08 9185 3628

KARRATHA Pilbara Holiday Park 1800 451 855

MUNSTER Woodman Point Holiday Park 1800 244 133

PORT HEADLAND Cooke Point Holiday Park 08 9173 1271

SHARK BAY Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort 1800 653 611

So I decided to help out with a recipe that works great with stale bread and saves on spending money on a dessert - but there is a warning with this recipe, if you are diabetic or someone who is watching their sugar levels then maybe you should avert your eyes now.

This dessert is very cheap but delicious and easy to make.

“Pain Perdu”, or the English translation is “Poor Knights of Windsor”.

Ingredients: Slightly stale partly used French loaf or any thick sliced bread Milk Sherry Sugar Cinnamon Oil for frying Ice cream

Method: Heat oil till it is hot, the hotter the oil the less oil is absorbed into the bread.

Combine sugar and cinnamon.

Diagonally slice the French loaf at about 5cm thickness.

Mix the milk and a small amount of sherry.

Dip the slices into the milk and sherry mix, let the bread drain the excess off.

Place bread into the oil and fry until golden on one side then turn, this won’t take long.

When golden on both sides, take out of oil and allow the excess oil to drain.

Place the fried bread into the cin-namon sugar and coat both sides.

Place the bread in a bowl with your favourite ice cream and en-joy.

Pain Perdu can be eaten hot or cold but I prefer to eat it hot with my ice cream.

By the way it will smell like hot doughnuts!

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Hi all,

We are new to caravanning and like most of us we have bread that we buy but only get to eat some of it before it goes stale.

RECIPE Pain Perdu, or

“Poor Knights of Windsor”

(Peter Harding)

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On the way, we passed through the small town of Cowaramup, known locally as “Cow Town” for obvious reasons –

It appears that a herd of dairy cows have taken up residence in the main street. Each one has a unique ear tag naming the spon-sor as a local business.

Each one has a different colour pattern.

We spent another day exploring some of the caves between Mar-garet River and Augusta. Dave, our host, used to work for Na-tional Parks and belongs to the caving club, so his local knowl-edge is extensive.

Bride Cave, Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park

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He took us along trails through the kauri forests and to a gallery dis-playing furniture from local tim-ber, i.e. a dining table made from Blackwood inlaid with a border of kauri for sale for $18,500. There were also many beautiful artworks – locally made timber ware, glass ware and metal works like a cop-per fountain in the shape of branches and leaves.

The Old Dairy Farm, near Au-gusta

Our stay on the Old Dairy Farm included Melbourne Cup. At short notice we pulled together a self catered lunch for 11, with a sweep and dress up. WA time meant the race was at noon, so we enjoyed nibbles while we watched the race on satellite TV then had all afternoon to eat lunch.

Dodgy costumes were the order of the day.

After leaving Augusta we moved to Pemberton, where we based ourselves for a couple of days to do some sightseeing. One day was spent driving south to the coast at Windy Harbour (which certainly lived up to its name). We also took a ride on an old tram through the forest. The ride is kept alive by volunteers keeping the track through the forest in working order.

We also spent a day touring through lovely country towns be-tween the forest and the wheat

belt. It’s still spring and the wildflowers are in full bloom. Roses are spectacular and I wish I could capture their perfume. There are several very large karri trees – Diamond Tree and Gloucester Tree – over 50 metres high. There is a spiked ladder up the Gloucester so the very brave can climb it.

50 metre Diamond Tree near Pemberton

After leaving Pemberton, we continued east, stopping at the Valley of the Giants. We had done this tree walk 14 years ago, so didn’t intend to repeat it, but had been told about the Ancient Empire boardwalk, so followed that through the forest floor. After having lunch in the car park, we continued on to Albany where we intended staying for 4 or more days.

Our friends, Colleen & Laurie, caught up with us the next day, so we again had happy hour companions.

Although we’d been to Albany on our previous visit, there was still much to see and do. The Anzac Memorial high on Mt Cla-rence and the Military Museum on nearby Mt Adelaide were of particular interest to me.

My grandfather’s brother was in the first Light Horse detachment to leave for Gallipoli and Albany was their last sight of Australia. The fleet gathered in King

George Sound, 24 transport ships carrying Australian & New Zea-land troops and their horses, many of whom never returned. Only one horse returned to Aus-tralia. It broke the soldiers’ hearts to have to shoot their horses. Albany was the first settlement in WA and the Magistrates house, the Old Gaol and other buildings reflect the age of the town.

First Magistrates house, Albany waterfront

Another day was spent driving along the coast to the town of Denmark, then north through Na-tional Park then vine yards and dairy country to Mt Barker, re-turning to Albany through more farmland. Our stay extended to a week so we could see and do more. One day was spent out along the Flinders Peninsula to see The Gap and Natural Bridge.

Natural Bridge More to come in next issue

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From the Branches Sundowners Port Vincent

Muster

(Albert Kramer)

Port Vincent is located on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia and is one of the most popular towns in the region. Port Vincent is the ideal location for fishing, boating and sailing, and the attrac-tive and peaceful bay provides swimming for families. With a magnificent coastline and shel-tered bay, Port Vincent has be-come a popular retirement town and holiday destination.

Some of the members arrived on the Thursday or earlier in the week whilst the majority drove into Port Vincent on Friday morn-ing and booked into the Foreshore Caravan Park. The weather was-n’t the best as we arrived as rain squalls and a south westerly wind blew over the Peninsula. We had 7 member vans 1 visitor van and one tent booked in for the week-end. The visitors were Stephen and Yvonne Woolley recent new ACC members and introduced by Paul and Jenny Blake. Welcome to both and we hope they have a great weekend with us. The tent belonged to Trevor and Margaret Aird who are in the middle of up-grading their van but can’t pick it up till the end of the month.

Joe and Pat Vella were the week-end hosts and had a full itinerary for us. The van park was filling

up fast for the weekend so it was an early move to the camp kitchen for the Happy Hour. Joe welcomed us all and introduced Stephen and Yvonne before de-tailing the events for the week-end. Dinner for tonight was go-ing to be Fish and Chips bought from the local town café. Orders were taken and monies paid and before long we were all munch-ing on fresh local fish and chips.

Saturday morning saw us all climb in our cars and drive to Minlaton for morning tea and a look around the ‘Red Devil’ mu-seum and Chocolateria shop in town.

The Minlaton Bakery was the venue for coffee, and as usual they were very busy for the dura-tion. Afterwards we drove to

Stansbury for a walk on the beach and a stop at the local fish monger for some fresh fish, cala-mari, scallops or prawns. Most of us purchased fish so the fish-monger did well out of us. Then

it was back to the van park for lunch and an afternoon of either Finska or rest. I think the major-ity selected rest as I didn’t see anyone playing Finska. Unfor-tunately, Ron and Bev had to leave to go home in the afternoon as they had made previous ar-rangements in Adelaide. It was good to see them again. The visitors, Stephen and Yvonne, fitted in very well and were en-joying themselves with all the activity.

Sunday morning, Pat arranged a walk along the coast following a pleasant trek amongst the native bushland and along the coastal cliffs.. This was followed with a Pancake Breakfast in the camp kitchen, before those departing today went to pack up. By lunch

time there were 6 vans left. Stephen and Yvonne said they had had a great time and would be back for some more mus-ters later in the year.

Paul and Jenny Blake tried a bit of fishing in the af-ternoon without any luck. Back to

the Fish shop for tea?

Geraldine and Sue made us some scones for Happy Hour today so I’m happy!

Until next time, safe caravanning!

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Port Vincent Foreshore Caravan Park

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The Coorong town of Meningie hugs the shoreline of Lake Albert, in the lower Murray River region of South Australia and boasts pic-turesque parks and picnic areas where locals and visitors can en-joy a wide range of water sports.

Situated at the northern end of the Coorong on the shores of Lake

Albert, Meningie combines all the charm of a small country town with the stunning natural beauty of the Coorong and the freshwater lakes, Albert and Alexandrina.

Sundowners Meningie Muster

(Sue Thompson)

first, which Dennis Gregory won, followed by 2 games between the men and women. Surprise, sur-prise Dennis won both of those games as well. He was unstoppa-ble. We reckon it was all the practice he had in Mudgee at the National Muster last year.

Another happy hour that night followed by a BBQ, which most of us had in our vans because the weather cooled down.

Sunday morning we had a lovely pancakes breakfast which was organised by yours truly. Trevor Aird, Albert and Geraldine Kramer, Ron Gaynes and I did the cooking.

After breakfast and the group photo the Gaynes and Lilfords

Happy Hour was at 4.30pm and afterwards we went to the Men-ingie Bowls Club for dinner as suggested by Ron and Bev Gay-nes as they were having a snitzel night that night. It was a great meal with good company. We got a lovely welcome from the president of the club so we felt very much at home.

Saturday morning most of us walked up to the local bakery for morning tea. We were met by Trevor and Margaret H from

Millicent on their way back from doctors ap-pointments in A d e l a i d e . They had not been able to come to mus-ters since the AGM so was great to see

them.

After the coffee stop it was back to the caravan park to have our lunch before the Klop/Finska competition in the afternoon. We had one individual game

Lake Albert Sunset

Trevor cooking pancakes.

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headed off home. The Kramers and Thompsons went for a drive to Narrung to check out the free camp near the ferry crossing whilst the rest did their own thing including visiting the Cheese Fac-tory Museum just outside the park.

We all had a wonderfully relaxing weekend and are eagerly looking forward to our next muster.

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the shade sheds provided, closely followed by George and Marion. Steve and Rhonda, Trevor and Glenys arrived on the Thursday and our guests John and Zita turned up on Friday. We only had five vans as most of our lo-cal members are on the road.

The Gremlins came with us as George and Marion, after a lot of testing and male discussion had to buy a new battery for the van in Clermont. Rod and Val were having trouble with their fridge and Steve and Rhonda still had trouble with a leaking system.

Did all that spoil our muster? NOT A BIT!

Our new banners were erected and resulted with one definite new member, Steve McGregor and Robyn Gettens from Ilbilbie and another who took an applica-tion.

Theresa Creek Dam is a really beautiful spot 20k from Cler-mont in central Qld. There are quite a few shade sheds donated mostly by the mines for the use by the campers. Great for happy hour. There are toilets and hot showers.

Rod and George put in the red-claw pots on Thursday morning but caught nothing until the fol-lowing morning. Not too disap-pointing when we were told by other campers that nobody was catching many. Our combined catch gave us a good taste at one happy hour.

We had intended to do a tour of the Blair Athol mine (the grem-lins again) The mine was closed. Some of the members went in to

You could be forgiven for think-ing we had Gremlins in the wood-pile for our start of the Theresa Creek Muster. First Gary and Mary were unable to attend as their fridge wasn’t working. Parts and repairs weren’t available until the time of the muster. Steve and Rhonda had a mad dash to get a leaking hot water system repaired and George and Marion were up to 10pm the night before departure working on a faulty (new) tail light.

Rod and Val arrived on the Wednesday and set up at one of

Clermont to have a look around, do some shopping, including buy-ing the battery and visited the market.

On Saturday night we all went to Clermont to the golf club for a Thai dinner. Very enjoyable.

With swimming, kayaking, and taking the boat to check the pots and the usual happy hours we quite forgot to play any of the games we took.

Three of the vans left on Sunday with only Rod, Val, George and Marion staying on until Monday. Back to the real world for every-one.

The gremlins paid us one final visit when Steve and Rhonda had a flat tyre on the way home.

All in all we all agreed it was a very enjoyable and successful muster.

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Exhausting game,this Finska!

Capricornia Tourers

Theresa Creek Muster

(Marion Baxter)

Kay and Kevin Small and Lauren and Colin Hogg meet on Monday 3rd February at Happy Hallidays Caravan Park, Hallidays Point. For those that haven’t been to this park it is well worth a stay. After swimming in both the indoor and outdoor pools, taking full advan-tage of the parks facilities, spend-ing time sightseeing the local area and then dining at the local tavern where we had the best meal (the writer had the best chicken schnitzel he has ever had) it was

Southern Highlanders Muster North

(Col Hogg)

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Branch forums are there to keep members abreast of what’s hap-pening in their Branch, and much more!

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Many of our members have toyed with the idea of forming an ACC branch which would cater to their particular needs—it could be to simply get together with other local members, or to get a common interest group together (e.g. antique vans).

Sadly, oft times the idea is dropped as being “too hard”. Or we sometimes just sit around waiting for “someone” to do it!

The document “ACC Branch Guidelines and By-Laws” con-tains all the information required and can be down-loaded from the club website under the Members/Documents area.

Why not drop an email to the Secretary, and find out how easy it can be—he’ll be glad to walk you through the process.

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There is a lucky membership num-ber hidden in this edition. Truly! It’s in here somewhere!

If it’s yours get in touch with the Secretary for your reward of a $20 Bunnings voucher.

Kaye Petterson (W00023) found her number in the last edition—Congratulations Kaye!

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time to move on to North Haven.

The Jacaranda Caravan Park, an-other very nice park, but smallish sites making it a bit difficult to get in and out. Warm weather greeted us with Kevin trying his luck with his fishing rod in the river near the park, with a pod of dolphins enter-taining us a bit further up the river, a great day sitting in the sun/shade. The Raffle Queen en-ticed us to go to the local club for the raffles (with no luck) but we had a great dinner afterwards, catching the club bus home.

Because of commitments Lauren and Colin had to go to Forster on Saturday with Kay and Kevin us-ing the weekend to catch up with relations in Port Macquarie.

It was great to catch up with Ellen and Dave when we arrived at Forster, Lakeside Resort is a very nice park well worth a stay. Kay and Kevin arrived on Mon-day giving us the opportunity to enjoy the parks facilities, fish the local spots, enjoy a bit of retail therapy, with the Raffle Queen again enticing everyone to go to the local club on their bus, once again with no luck. A very nice dinner was enjoyed by all at the club.

It was time to move on to Norah Head where it was great to catch up with Ros and Bruce and

Patricia and Br ian . The weather was not the kindest to us but luck-ily no one was washed away with everyone able to enjoy a fair amount of local sightsee-ing and retail therapy.

Friday night saw the Raffle

Queen strike again and had all of us walking to the local Bowling Club for the raffles and dinner afterwards. Winners are grinners, with Kay and Kevin and Patricia and Brian successful in winning big meat trays which eventually fed the masses in the parks’ very nice camp kitchen.

A great fortnight was had by all with a few of us spending a cou-ple of extra nights at Mannering Park Big 4 on the way home.

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Murray River Ramblers 10th mus-ter was held at Tocumwal Boo-merang Way C/P 21st to 23rd March. 2 couples ar-rived on Thursday & by Friday afternoon another 10 vans had setup. It was windy and we al-most got wet from a nearby storm but it cleared quickly and the weekend was fine. New members John & Phyllis came for their first muster, member-ship is growing with a local dropping in for an applica-tion form as well on Saturday a couple from Numurkah invited along by Kaye will also join.

Happy hour started about 4 which included a game of Golf Fling won by Trevor. Sat morning members vis-ited Christie's Museum a collec-tion of many things from tools to cars, trucks, machinery and of special interest were the restored caravans. It's a place worth a

visit when you are passing through. Several members checked out the Op shops for Formal wear to be used at our

hind the pub and enjoyed a pig on the spit dinner and evening entertainment by a singer/guitar player.

*The Bunya mountains got us moving as we enjoyed walks through the rainforest and a Dev-onshire tea. Sadly the cloud cover stopped us from visiting the astronomical centre in Maidenwell that evening.

*In Nanango we visited Rings-field House, a 100 year old Queenslander home, for a guided tour and generous Devonshire

Barham muster in Sept Our meeting was held at 3pm fol-lowed by Happy hour and raffle. Then members headed off to the Golf Club for our evening meal and on return several played a Quiz game brought along by Glo-ria. Sunday morning we had our tra-

ditional egg and bacon breakfast . Gordon from Toc dropped in to say hello and gave us a up-date on his new van.We hope to see more of him and Wendy in the future. A game of Klopp was played with a lot of en-thusiasm and fun finally won by new member John. Most members left by 11am and 3 couples

stayed an extra night. So ended another great muster.

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Murray River Ramblers

Tocumwal Muster (Phil Griffiths)

Gold Coast Gadabouts

Tag-a-Long 2014

(Kaye Hawkins)

We met up for our tag-a-long at the small town of Clifton, just south of Toowoomba, on April 24th. Thirteen vans arrived and we shared a pot luck dinner- what great cooks we proved to be!!

On Anzac Day we went to the lo-cal service and the following Li-ons Club luncheon, before visiting the local railway and heritage mu-seums.

That night we enjoyed a private viewing of “The Great Gatsby” at the local historic theatre where hessian double deck chair seats were a feature and jaffas and pop-corn a tasty treat!

The next day we set off on our journey north and over the next 10 days fitted in a great variety of activities: *At Maidenwell we camped be-

tea on the verandah. The interest-ing energy display at the informa-tion centre kept us entertained before we headed to the go kart track for “burn” around the course. Kevin proved the fastest driver!

*A visit to the 44 “pets” at Mysty Gums Alpaca Farm proved an entertaining morning as we fed and petted the animals and learned a great deal about them from Peter and Trish. *Kingaroy Historic Museum gave us a great insight into the farming of peanuts and we were surprised

to learn that the whole of the last summer crop failed due to the dry sum-mer we had.

*Wandai is a small town but has a very active community that supports a great timber museum, wood working workshop, art gallery and historic museum as well as a great butcher who was Ray & Lynton ready to go!

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happy to see us all visit to shop for our camp oven cook up.

*Kimkombi Falls were flowing into the attractive gorge when we called in on our way to Kilkivan Bush Camp. Many of us walked the 200+ steps down to the bottom and up again!

*Our country music night that evening saw us enjoying our cook up, country music, line dancing and even trying some square danc-ing in sets of eight.

*Next day a 1880’s copper smelter chimney was an interest-ing find 8 km along a bush track. It has been restored and is a re-markable structure. Mudlo Nat Park was not too far away and a steep climb saw some members puffing but proud as they reached the top for views of the hoop pine forests.

*Barefoot Bowls at Kilkivan Bowls Club saw some talent emerge as teams attempted to get close to that kitty and then drinks and dinner at the club followed as lightening sent us indoors.

*Cherax Aquaculture Farm, where they grow red claw (fresh water crayfish), was reached next day near Theebine. A huge morning tea was included as well as a most interesting tour of the whole proc-ess by owner Peter.

*Paradise Dam proved a lovely camp spot and we enjoyed further walks, campfires, jokes and story telling as well as a great camp oven roast dinner followed by

sticky date pudding with butter-scotch sauce. A fitting celebra-tion for the Gilligan’s 51st wed-ding anniversary!

All of this, as well as magic from our resident magician Chris Wheeler, putt putt golf, finska, whip cracking, bush poetry read-

ing, fun games, card making, singing, charades and celeb-rity heads to keep us all laughing!

Gay Clark penned these words for us all to sing on the fi-nal night (To be sung to the tune of “We still call Austra-lia Home”)

We've been to Clifton and old Wondai town

Through beautiful country, and along windy roads

But no matter how far or how wide I roam

We still call our caravans home! We've played some finska, some golf and lawn bowls

We've had magic, square danced, had yummy camp meals

The alpacas, the red claw, the brand new lamb

What, an adventure it’s been. All of the Gadabouts, travelling on this trip

Away from their family with friends

Paradise got colder, Gillies marriage one year older

This is where this journey ends.

Some day we'll all be together again

At some muster or campsite, feeling no pain

We'll realise something, we've known all along

We had a great Tagalong!

We realise something we've known all along

We had a great tag

O h , w h a t a g r e a t t a g We had a great tagalong!

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Nug Nug Reserve is about 10kms south of Myrtleford in the bucolic Buffalo Valley. The drive in, is enough to put you in a relaxed frame of mind. The road winds gently through grazing land with fat contented cattle and goats. There are homely farm houses, grape vines and apple orchards. This is the sort of place where one could easily settle!

The camp is situated on the Buf-falo River which is little more than a babbling brook. There are spacious grassy areas and enor-mous shade trees. Cockatoos, Ga-lahs and King Parrots screech overhead. Tiny Fairy Wrens flit about the camp nonstop and liz-ards laze in the sun by the river. We even spot a trout in the river, a spotted trout perhaps?

For a mere $15 per day there are powered sites with river water on tap as well as toilets and cold showers available to those who need them. It doesn’t get much better. There is a second camp-ground across the bridge with a deep swimming hole and a wide pebbly beach, it has no facilities other than solitude.

Keen to get started Geoff & Sharon arrived on the weekend

Circle to the left!

Bayside Wanderers Nug Nug Muster

(Sheryl Opie)

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were a great excuse to eat far too much cake.

In all there are 12 vans. Ray and Kath Barton join us from South-ern Nomads and Ray makes happy hour even happier with his poetry and his Limoncello (rocket fuel).

Pete and Caron arrive, still jet lagged from their flight down from Bali only 24 hours earlier. Talk about looking like rabbits caught in the headlights!

Being autumn in the mountains the weather alter-nates between humid plopping rain and warm sunshine. When-ever the sun breaks through we all complain about the heat. The mornings are warm and misty with shafts of sunlight glinting through the trees. The nights cool enough to sleep easy.

When it rains it plops and plops so that everything that had fi-nally dried out gets wet again. Not to be daunted we wander about chatting under dripping awnings or hibernating with

good books.

Tony our fire warden is kept busy between showers hovering around the fire like a mother hen, building and stoking the fire with his new op shop ski pole. When-ever the rain clears chairs begin to circle around the fire again and soon we’re talking about the best places we’ve visited.

Each day a few folk drift off to town to see the local market, or the shops and others to check their phone messages.

Peter Horton and Tony return with a boot load of chestnuts and spend the afternoon shelling them. The ladies get to talking about knitting and a crochet and knitting group quickly swings into action with needles clicking away. The men fill in a lazy after-noon wandering about the camp with a tape measure checking the lengths of their vans.”Does that include the A bar?”

A few folks play ladder golf and then as always happy hour sneaks up again. Under a starry sky we roast the chestnuts over the fire and despite doubts from Mary they really are good.

In fact most nights give us perfect

conditions for campfires and the food is great, BBQ’d dim sims, little boys with sauce and Shona’s delicious Cobb Loaf.

It is a true camping muster and so relaxing. But why oh why are the toilet signs in Bosnian?

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prior to the muster along with Mavis, Ed and Val. We all have lush grassy sites some beside the Buffalo River and shaded by trees. In fact the whole camp is awash in emerald green. Each night we fall asleep to the sound of the river beside us.

A few kilometres up the road is Lake Buffalo, it is peaceful and still with a few pelicans wander-ing the banks. The old concrete spillway is gushing water into ‘our’ river. We are surrounded by hills so there is no TV, phone or internet. Although those with satellite dishes can get TV so we really don’t miss out on too much.

Some of us are My Kitchen Rules fans and have missed out on a cook off. So Geoff re runs the pre-vious night’s show on the outside TV of his new van. It is spitting with rain so there we are sitting under a tree staring at the TV mut-tering “you didn’t crumb it prop-erly”. I had always thought that outside TV’s on caravans were a waste of time, I stand corrected!

Val has been recommended to try the fish and chips at Bright by a couple of New South Welshmen she met on her travels. “It’s the Ocean Catch” she says. So we bundle into the cars and head into Bright. It’s a gorgeous day and Brights famous leaves are turning a brilliant cerise and tumbling like red stars onto the footpaths. We wander the streets and ask shop-keepers and finally find two possi-bilities a burger joint and Rok Salt. “Oh well” says Val, “that’s close”. But wow it is good. Blue Grenadier, crumbed Calamari and the hand cut chips are oh so good and huge potato cakes.

RokSalt Gourmet Fish & Chippery, 41A Camp Street,

Bright.

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An invitation was sent to all mem-bers of the ACC Slickers to enjoy a relaxing, restful muster on the lovely beaches of the NSW South Coast for seventeen nights. As the Christmas and New Year holidays are always hectic, it was thought that a restful muster would be welcome and accepted by many of our members. It seems that we had 21 members who had similar thoughts!

Our first stop was the small town-ship of Currarong, located on the south coast just east of Nowra. A friendly and welcoming park with enjoyable amenities and a covered BBQ area saw our group quickly settle in to the routines of camp life, including setting up the vans, discussing the delights of what this area has to offer, and of course completing those essential preparations for Happy Hour. From our ‘base camp’ we were now ready to venture out to some wonderful locations including: a short trip to Point Perpendicular Lighthouse; a visit to Long Nose Point; and then it was on to Hon-eymoon Bay and Abrahams Bosom – where gorgeous blue wa-ters and white sand entice the swimmers from the shelter of the Club. A communal dinner was enjoyed by all at the local bowling

ing several parked cars by inches! It seems that the recently replaced “U” bolts had snapped. Lucky for us there were several clever members of our Club on the tag-along and the repair job was com-pleted the same day after pur-chasing new “U” bolts on all four wheels, and including replace-ment of the damaged water outlet pipes. When all the repairs were suc-cessfully completed, and in his usual cheeky manner, Russ Voy-sey wanted to know who would volunteer to travel behind Rick’s van to the next destination. De-spite the lack of ‘takers’, there was still lots of fun to be had at this park –kayaking, Finska, fish-ing, searching for worms, relax-ing and reading. One member (Monty) was so determined not to be left out of the fun of kayaking that he headed off into town and purchased a kayak for himself ( with his wife Mary’s consent ….. of course!). Support for the local community was also on display Friday night with 20 plus servings of fish and chips ordered from the local store. There were also a few showers of rain, but even that failed to dampen our enthusiasm for having a good time. The Ulla-dulla RSL Club was our choice for dinner on Saturday night but it proved a little disappointing with one of our members not being served his dinner (presumably the order must have been lost). Re-

gardless, we sol-diered on and en-joyed our meals (or at least those that were delivered), and then quickly left the Club for home as the local band had started playing noise – not music! At this site, we were joined by Rob

club on Saturday evening, and Sunday morning saw the group of adventurer’s gather together for a BBQ breakfast. Nine of our members enjoyed the short stay at this spectacular lo-cation, including Rick and Joy Lewis, Debbie and Alan Lidbet-ter, Christine and Geoff Wright, Monty and Mary Byrnes, John and Lorraine Theodoros, Russ and Diane Voysey, and Phil and Lyn Deaves. All too soon it was time to move on to our next destination and of course, enroute we all just had to sample the delights of the ‘Heritage Bakery” at Milton for

morning tea time. The delights of the bakery and some delightful scenery masked what was in store for Rick and Joy when they ar-rived at the Lake Tabourie Caravan Park – our next stop on the tagalong. After registering at the office, it was off

to our allotted camp site – or so we thought! Our booking com-plete, we headed off quietly but at the first speed bump we heard many whistles and shouts for us to “stop”! Up until that point we had no idea that our two rear wheels, complete with and in-cluding the axle, had sheared off from the securing brackets and now ran freely behind us‑ miss-

Sydney City Slickers

South Coast Tag

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Update Your Details!

Sadly, every week, we have mail that we have sent to a member returned to us marked “No Longer at This Address”.

On behalf of the club’s record-keepers, please, drop us a line or a call to let us know when any of your details have changed!

Chairman’s Musters

A quick reminder from Chair-man Tom— Chairman’s mus-ters are held several times in any year, attendance is open to any and all ACC members!

and Marion Caruso, Maureen and Ron Nielsen, Denise and Gavin Wenham, Chris and Ted Fielder, and newcomers Dallas and Diane (neighbours of the Nielsen’s). Dis-appointingly, this park was not the cleanest place that we visited but that is a story for another time. Heading off the next day, we again visited the Milton “Heritage Bakery”, a wonderful venue that is highly recommended for their wares. From there it was off to Huskisson –a short drive away. Unfortunately this van park does not really cater for large vans, so we were more spread out than we

would have preferred, noting that our last two stops saw us all co-located, but the amenities were good and we enjoyed the stay. Several members went out in their kayaks, whilst others simply en-joyed swimming at the beach.

We visited the “Lady Denman Ferry Museum” where we boarded the old ferry and read about its life on Sydney Harbour etc., and enjoyed a delightful meal at the Huskisson Pub overlooking the bay. Visitors Cathy and Heino Berger joined us for a few days as visi-

tors, as did Debbie and Mike Cohen, John and Gillian Scan-lon. Some of our members also left us at this location (Ted and Chris, and De-n i s e a n d Gavin). The following day we left for C o r r i m a l Caravan Park w i t h n i c e a m e n i t i e s . Corrimal is located on the beach just out from Wollongong. This camp site had an ideal set up with our vans forming a big circle, all backing onto an area with an electric BBQ in the middle. The site also proved to be a wonder-ful venue for communal dinners and breakfast BBQ’s. Here we welcomed new mem-bers Russ and Sue Lewis to the fold, and were also joined by Brad and Helen Bradford and Lance and Rhoda Pedrana. On the Saturday, we enjoyed a great meal at the Towradgi Bowling Club but unfortunately no one managed to win any of the meat

raffles that night. We were also joined by Rob and Marion Caruso, and Alan and Debbie Lid-better for the dinner as they lived fairly local and had left us previ-ously. On the Sunday, Gavin and Bobbie Hardy also called in to say hello. Similar to other sites on the tagalong, Corrimal

was no exception with eleven vans in location for the final few days of our travels. On the Sunday morning, we said our sad farewell’s (until next time of course) to several of our members who had to return to their home location and their preparations for that dirty four

letter word – w..k! Sunday eve-ning saw the remaining partici-pants enjoy a wonderful commu-

nal dinner with much musing about the delights of this tagalong and discussions on what the next one’s had to offer. Then it was off to bed before packing up the next morning and departing for home.

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What a good turnout we had, eleven vans one cabin and visitors Dale & Deb Johnson shared our fun, I do hope they liked us! Also local ACC member Des dropped in to say “G’day”, at happy hour.

Lake Boga is about 15kms south of Swan Hill in Victoria’s “fruit bowl”. One had to look hard to see the variety of crops that they grow as in parts it looks like semi arid desert. But the red soil is crisscrossed with irrigation chan-nels from the Murray and there are vineyards, stone fruits and rice, lots of rice.

During World War Two Lake Boga was home to the RAAF No.1 Flying Boat Repair Depot. This base was responsible for the repairs and maintenance of Aus-

tralian and American flying boats and was home to several thousand personnel.

The Lake Boga Caravan Park is situated on the lake shore with grassy lawns running down to the beach. There is a flock of resident pelicans that reside close to the adequate camp kitchen and all facilities are excellent. It is only a five minute walk into the tiny township that has a conven-ience store and a cosy old pub with good meals.

As is normal Wanderers start ap-pearing several days before the official muster start having free camped along the way. The weather alternated between snatches of beautiful bright sun-shine to cold, wet and windy but heck it was late autumn. Every van had a stunning view across the lake and yes, that dot way out in the middle of the lake was Kel paddling, paddling.

Ian & Sheila arrived quite late after losing the back window of their car when they drove off with the power cord still at-tached...whoops. They may have gotten away with it had members Con and Molly not been driving past. On the topic of caravanning mishaps it probably should be recorded that another member happily paid a visit to her toilet, whilst hubby was emptying the cassette over at the dump point. One thinks she would have been on cleaning duty afterwards.

In the absence of Tony our Fire Warden, Brett and Trevor pro-vided us with some lovely fires to keep us warm under the stars each night. You better watch out Tony.

One night Chris an amateur as-tronomer was staying in the park and he gave us all a crystal clear close up look at the moon. He promised to show us Saturn later

Bayside Wanderers Lake Boga Muster

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in the night but nature intervened and gave us rain instead.

Tina and Trev were busy catching carp which being a local pest they then fed to the waiting pelicans. In fact one fish was so big that the

boss pelican walked in circles for quite some time wondering how he could eat it. Trev came to the rescue and cut it into three large chunks.

A group of us visited the Catalina Flying Boat Museum to escape the

rain and found it fascinating. There is an aircraft on display, plenty of memorabilia and the un-derground communications bun-ker is open to visitors. It is hard to imagine how this tiny town played such an integral part in the war when it was so far from the action.

On the Saturday a convoy of four

wheel drives set off to the local Murrabit Market. It is a 70km drive on sealed roads. We take the more direct dirt road and get there in half the time, a bit muddy though. The market is billed as the largest in regional Australia but not this time as it was quite a cold day. The local pumpkins look great for $1 each and Tina got herself a very healthy Tahitian lime tree.

We were as sated as the pelicans at the happy hours. Along with all of the other nibbles on offer Pat created a cob loaf, Gabbi baked scones, Tina made nachos and yours truly made pumpkin

soup from the Murrabit pump-kins. I think the cold weather in-spired us to cook.

We made a con-certed effort to support the local hotels and groups

visited the Federal on the Murray river in Swan Hill and the cosy old Lake Boga Hotel. Both pro-vided large and delicious meals. At the Lake Boga Pub we made the mistake of sitting Daryl & Trev together and they kept us entertained all night with their boasts of “taking on” the blokes in the bar.

There were lovely walks to be had along the lakeshore. Every day the lake showed us a differ-ent face. Sometimes grey and choppy, bright blue and calm and then the soft pinks and blues of sunset.

As the muster slowly wound to a close Val and the Macca’s were, as Daryl puts it “itching for hitching”. Early Monday we farewelled them on their trip to “Birdsville and Beyond”. Others headed towards the Gulf country with plans yet to be decided. Lake Boga certainly makes a good starting point for the winter migration.

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The Port Arthur Holiday Park was the venue for our Muster. It’s a spacious Park with easy drive through sites, & if you’re in-clined, an award winning kids playground!

Good facilities, close to all the attractions on that part of the Tas-man Peninsula & friendly Manag-ers Steve & Leeanne make it an ideal choice.

The usual plans for a Muster weren’t needed when we were contacted by Fred Wright, the Editor of Caravan & Motorhome on Tour. The Magazine wanted to do some filming of us doing what we usually do at a Muster—enjoying ourselves. We partici-pated as it was an opportunity to promote the ACC as well as the local area which had been badly burnt in the Dunalley bushfires of January 2013. They still need all the help they can get—Blaze Aid were fantastic with their fence building.

Fred arranged for local identity Roger Self with his 1928 side loading bus to pick us up for a tour of the many sights around Port Arthur. The bus has a 1928 body on a 1942 truck body with a gas producer on the back which is original—never been used. Who remembers those in use?

Bit of a squeeze as it only took 12

Tassie Travellers Port Arthur Muster

(Rod Barwick)

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passengers. Thankfully not too many smelly armpits! We found a fish & chip van which was the best- didn’t know it existed. A very different way to go sightsee-ing.

We hope the DVD which should be in the June issue of the Maga-zine shows Fred cooking breakfast for us—he looks a treat in an apron!

We met new members Barry and Denise, escapees south from Wide Bay Burnett, Ross and Pauline.

A good weekend made better with great company.

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Gippsland Gypsies Yarram Muster

(Alan Bebee)

The weather, regrettably, was in-different alternating between showers and fine under overcast cloud occasionally clearing. But that did not stop twenty five vans and RV’s, one cabin, and one par-ticipating couple living off site, of intrepid Gypsy members from en-joying another great muster. The venue was the Rosebank Caravan Park, a delightful setting with ex-cellent amenities. Several early arrivals had their happy hour and catch up nattering before the in-flux of the bulk of participants ready for the Friday start.

A hearty welcome to Mal and Sharron White, recent ACC mem-bers on their first Gypsies muster. And a hearty welcome was also given to Maz and George Hannah from the Southern Nomads who

chose to join us.

Happy hour on the Friday eve-ning was a meet and greet gath-ering, with an impromptu group-ing of the branch’s musicians.

Featured were two guitars, bass guitar, keyboard, auto harp and trombone, plus vocals, an unlikely combination to be sure, but very entertaining. There is some talent in this branch some-where!

Having adjourned for evening meals, those who wished to par-ticipate walked the short distance to Yarram’s Regent Theatre for a screening of “The Castle” and “Russell Coight’s Celebrity Challenge”, two very amusing Australian made films. As a bo-nus the licenced bar at the theatre was open for patrons.

Saturday saw a spontaneous car pooled tag along for those who wished to join through the prime-val forest to nearby Tarra-Bulga National Park where a picnic lunch was enjoyed. The return to the caravan park was in good time for the branch’s combined general meeting, raffle and happy hour. This was arranged early so that only a short walk was needed afterwards for mem-bers to the Yarram Country Club where Barefoot Bowls had been organised for a 5:00 pm start. This strenuous activity was fol-lowed by an enjoyable evening meal in the Club’s Bistro from 6:30 onwards.

Sunday’s activities started with our egg and bacon breakfast ca-pably cooked by Rob and Judy Quirk assisted by Joan and Geoff Brumby.

A car pooled tag along followed taking in visits to various nearby beaches. A fish and chip lunch at Port Albert was enjoyed before returning to the caravan park.

Several members had to depart on the Sunday leaving a much

smaller happy hour for the stay-ers. Monday saw most depart to conclude another great muster.

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Hunter Ramblers North Haven

Muster

(Di Stubbs)

Well the Hunter Ramblers have a complete change of Committee for 2014. The blind leading the blind! Thank you to the previous Committee, President Barbara Garvin, Vice-President Cheryl Sherlock, Treasurer Rod Garret and Secretary Nevis Rothery who have done a superb job. We are still ‘leaning’ on them for ideas and guidance. Thank you so much, Barb, Cheryl, Rod and Ne-vis.

The new Committee is; Graham Lucas President, Ken Arnold Vice-President, Jenny price Treasurer and Di Stubbs Secre-tary. We have also co-opted Ella Miles to act as our Social Secre-tary/Games.

We had about 17 vans at Beach-front Caravan Park North Haven for our Muster. Unfortunately it clashed with the Ukulele Festival at Katoomba so many of our members were not able to attend.

As well this year a large number of our members are travelling and we may not see many of them until we meet again at Lucindale.

Bernie, Barry & Ray—very natty!

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The highlight of Beachfront was our Cocktail Party on the Saturday night (great idea Janet!!!) More photos are on the ACC web-site. Go to the group link, under your profile pic, then choose Hunter Ramblers.

The wide variety of cocktails in-cluded a Singapore Sling (the original recipe which had been given to two of our members after drinking at the Long Bar. They earlier had afternoon tea at Raffles' Opera Café!)

Other cocktails included Whales Tail, Midori Pine Lime Spritzer, The Brown Cow, Illusion, Golden Dream and Champagne Cocktails. Needless to say a great night!

Our Visitors, Merv and Fay, ap-plied to join both the ACC and the Hunter Ramblers and Robert and Anna, who were already ACC members , also applied to join up with us.

Some of the boys spent a bit of time fishing. It seems the only thing they brought home was an injury to Robbie. He spent quite a bit of time at the Doctor, when we returned, having treatment for the oyster shells left in his body

and the subsequent infection which occurred.

Ella brought a 1000 piece jigsaw which she set up in the spacious Camp Kitchen. This was much enjoyed by Hunter Ramblers and other Park visitors. Great meet-ing opportunity!

Park Management provided a Pancake breakfast on the Satur-day morning. Fantastic machine, operated by them, not us. We just enjoyed the eating of them.

We had a short visit one day from some of the Southern High-landers, who had come from the Park down the road. They thought our Park was superior to theirs and were going to recom-mend it as a Muster to their own Branch.

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The Pomona Showgrounds was the venue for the second WBBN muster for 2014. The Rehrens, Hoffmanns, Jacksons and Owens were first to arrive on Tuesday as early starters for the muster. Wednesday saw the arrival of the Tillsons, Robinson/Bracken, Nel-son/Pressler. A few more vans to arrive on Thursday were the Kernkes, Cornalls, Tsakisiris and Victorian visitors Geoff and Joan Brumby from the ACC Gippsland Gypsies joined us. Friday John and Chris Anear, Jan & David Stuart and their friends Neville and Margaret Mundt ar-rived. On Saturday Dave & Myra arrived making a total number of 15 vans.

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Pancakes—Yum!

Wide Bay Burnett Nomads

Pomona Muster

(Narelle Hoffman)

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Sadly we received the news that Russ and Gail were unable to at-tend as Russ had his appendix re-moved on Friday evening. Hope you are well soon Russ. We are all thinking of you. Some of us took advantage to visit the Eumundi markets, others drove around sight-seeing the area, visiting various lookouts and Boreen Point. One couple thought they saw some marijuana plants when they were at one of the look-outs.

We all enjoyed a nice taste of Toogoom prawns kindly supplied by Ian. Ian had been prawning a few days prior to coming to Pomona and as he is allergic to prawns (Jenny does eat them) he thought he would bring some to hand out – to every ones delight. I think there would be a few smelly bins around in town. The bin col-lection at the showgrounds took place early in the week. Danny bought his “on farm doc-toring skills” to the fore when Ian

complained about under his foot being sore where he had stood on something when fishing before he left home. After Danny had a

bit of a probe and applied some drawing ointment and plaster it seemed to be ok the next day. Everyone enjoyed a good array of hot dishes supplied by every-one for the Saturday evening

meal, followed by dessert of cara-mel tartlets and cheese cake slices made by Jenny and Narelle. To top off a great night, Chris Anear entertained everyone after dinner with her ukulele. Early on Sunday morning, John and Rose Tsakisiris, Lorraine Owens, Dave Gatfield, Dave Till-son, Neil Robinson and John Anear decided to tackle the King of The Mountain Climb up Pomona Mountain. John and Rose and Lorraine decided that halfway up the mountain was enough for them, while the other four men made it right to the top. After morning tea, trivia and the raffle a few departed for home. Thanks to Dave Tillson for step-ping in with questions for the Trivia quiz in Gail and Russ’s absence. On Sunday evening, some drove their cars and some caught the courtesy bus to the Pomona Hotel for dinner. Pomona is a pretty little town with plenty to see in the sur-rounding area and lots of little shops to browse in. The bakery makes beaut pies and sausage rolls which were sampled by a few of us.

After a great weekend the re-mainder of vans packed up and left for home on Monday. We all look forward to catching up again with everyone at the next muster at Esk.

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Quality shirt in taupe with green and gold trim features club logo.

Mens sizes M to 5XL with pockets; Ladies sizes 12 to 26 without pocket (pocket available, no charge - to be self sewn) $38.00 Postage: 1 --- $8, 2 to 4---$12 extra $3.20 for registered

Quality long sleeved shirt in taupe with green and gold trim. $42.00 Postage: 1 --- $8, 2 to 4---$12 extra $3.20 for registered

Snag resistant fabric. Knit collar with contrast tipping, side splits. Features club logo. Mens sizes S to 5XL with pockets. $38.00 Ladies sizes 8 to 24. Postage: 1 --- $8, 2 to 4---$12 extra $3.20 for registered

The club jacket is a polar fleece full zip jacket, bottle green in colour, similar to the green on collar of club shirt with club emblem on the left side. $44.00 Postage: 1 or 2 jackets --- $12.00

100% Polyester jacket with contrasting microfibre panel, jersey lining. Full zip front with two zippered pockets bottle green with gold trim.Adult sizes: XXS to 5XL. $50.00 Postage: 1---$8.00 2 or 3---$12

Quality club cap, with embroidered club logo in green and gold. One size fits all. $15.00 Postage: up to 4 caps---$8; 5 to 8 caps---$12

The brimmed hat, bottle green in colour with club emblem in gold

on the front. Available in 2 sizes, small 57cm and large 61cm. The hat as an adjustable elastised band inside the hat for a snug fit. $18.00 Postage: up to 4 hats---$8; 5 to 8 hats---$12

Club Flags, 600 x 400, complete with small staff $15.00

Postage: 1 Flag = $9.50 : 2 Flags = $11.50

Club Stickers available in 3 sizes, tough and durable, suitable for car and van. PLEASE NOTE: Postage costs: If any sized stickers are purchased along with another item/s that attract a postage cost, then no additional postage will apply for this item. Jumbo Van Sticker, A4 size $10.00 If jumbo stickers purchased separately, postage is $2.75 for up to 5 stickers Large Van Sticker $3.00 If large stickers purchased separately, postage is $1.75 for up to 5 stickers Small Windscreen Sticker, fits inside windscreen. $1.00 If small stickers purchased separately, postage is .75c for up to 5 stickers

Picnic Basket $25.00 Postage: 1---$13.00 2 or 3---$19

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Club Stubby Holder, durable and handy for that cold one. Comes in

club colours of green and gold. $7.00 PLEASE NOTE: If purchased with a bulky item, post on first stubby holder is free then each additional is .50c postage. If purchased alone, postage is up to 10 $7.50, 11-18 $12.

Club Spare Wheel Cover, from high quality marine vinyl, displays club logo, name and web address in green and gold. Please advise tyre size when ordering. Now have good stocks of wheel covers. $50.00 $12 postage + $3.20 registered post if selected

Written by our own Lionel Mussell, the RV travellers handbook. A MUST

for all travellers. (Limited Stocks) SPECIAL PRICE $15-00 $2 post & handling

Club Keytag, individually numbered, with name recorded in a register for return of keys if lost with return address on reverse. “If found please return to Australian Caravan Club Ltd. PO Box 631, Patterson Lakes Vic 3197” The size is approx. 55mm long and 25mm wide. $7.50 Postage $1.50 (Maximum 2 per pack - if greater number multiply accordingly)

Club Umbrella, quality umbrella with fiberglass shaft with carbon fibre bow makes a very durable umbrella in club colours of green and gold with club logo on 2 sides. $25-00 Postage: $13.00 each

Club Lanyard including small clip, in gold with green club name. $4.00

PLEASE NOTE: Postage costs: If this item is purchased along with another item/s that attracts postage, then no additional postage will apply. If purchased separately, postage is $1.75 for 1 or 2 lanyards

The pens are silver and green with club emblem in gold. $8.00 SPECIAL $6.00 PLEASE NOTE: Postage costs: If this item is purchased along with another item/s that attract a postage cost, then no additional postage will apply for this item. If purchased separately, postage is $1.75 for 1 or 2 pens

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The apron is approx 83cm long x 65cm wide with pocket and adjustable neck. $25.00 Postage: 1 or 2---$8.00 3 or 4---$12

Membership card holders $1.00 PLEASE NOTE: Postage costs: If this item is purchased along with another item/s that attracts postage, then no additional postage will apply. If purchased separately, postage is $1.50 for 1 or 2 membership card holders.

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Coming Events Check the Events Calendar and the Branch Forums on the Web Site for further details.

Date 2014 Branch State Venue Contact Phone

Jun 6—8 Tassie Travellers TAS St Helens Muster

Jun 6—9 Gippsland Gypsies VIC Barham Muster Neil Kolmorgen 03 9707 3808

Jun 6—9 Lakeside Drifters NSW Merriwa Muster Max Plumb 0408 689 526

Jun 11—16 Country Cruisers QLD Beaudesert Muster

Jun 11—23 Sydney City Slickers NSW Lwr North Coast Tag Lorr. Theodorus 0417 486 017

Jun 18 –24 Chairmans Muster QLD Maryborough Muster

Jun 19—24 Moreton Bay Drifters QLD ToolgoolwahMuster John Mathams 07 3351 1713

Jun 19—24 Northern Buswhackers NSW Maryborough Tag Sue Fletcher 02 6733 2003 Jun 27—29 Hunter Ramblers NSW Cassilis Muster Di. Stubbs 02 4982 3815

Jun 27—29 Wide Bay Burnett Nomads QLD Baffle Creek Muster Jenny Rehren 07 4128 0379

Jul 10—14 Family Firesiders QLD Maryborough Muster Peter Snook 0419 688 853

Jul 11—13 Southern Cross O’landers SA Riverton Muster Sheila Livingston 0421 982 369

Jul 11—13 Western Wallabies WA Gillangarra Muster Bruce Buchanan 0419 964 306

Jul 18—20 Southerly Busters NSW Katoomba Falls Muster Peter Stanhope 0419 225 271

Jul 25—27 Murray River Ramblers VIC Shepparton Muster Kaye Hocking 0408 230 147

Jul 25—27 Swan River Rovers WA Moora Muster Kaye Petterson 08 9725 8925

Jul 27 Brisbane Roustabouts QLD Jabiru Island Picnic Chris Lloyd 0412 614 260

Jul 31—Aug 4 Gold Coast Gadabouts QLD Pomona Muster

Jul 31—Aug 4 Sunshine Nomads QLD Woodford Muster Denn. Mulholland 0412 274 154

Aug 1—7 Lakeside Drifters NSW Narabeen Muster Max Plumb 0408 689 526

Aug 1—4 Brisbane Roustabouts QLD Mt Warning Muster Chris Lloyd 0412 614 260

Aug 1—3 Hunter Ramblers NSW Norah Head Muster Di. Stubbs 02 4982 3815

Aug 1—3 Tassie Travellers TAS St Helens Muster

Aug 6—11 Country Cruisers QLD Toolgoolwah Muster

Aug 7—12 Moreton Bay Drifters QLD Jacobs Well Muster John Mathams 07 3351 1713

Aug 10—24 Sydney City Slickers NSW Bourke Tag-a-long Lorr. Theodorus 0417 486 017

Aug 15—17 Border Hoppers NSW Temora Muster Leslie Gaskin 0418 479 855

Jul 9—14 Country Cruisers QLD Goombungee Muster

Aug 15—17 Gippsland Gypsies VIC Rawson Muster Neil Kolmorgen 03 9707 3808

Aug 15—17 Family Firesiders QLD Maleny Muster Peter Snook 0419 688 853

Aug 18—22 Golden Westerners NSW Nambucca Hds Muster

Aug 22—24 Wide Bay Burnett Nomads QLD Cania Gorge Muster Jenny Rehren 07 4128 0379

Aug 29—31 Western Wallabies WA Brookton Muster Bruce Buchanan 0419 964 306

Sep 4—8 Gold Coast Gadabouts QLD Iluka Muster

Sep 5—7 Golden Westerners NSW Temora Muster

Sep 10—14 Lakeside Drifters NSW Broke Muster Max Plumb 0408 689 526

Sep 10—15 Country Cruisers QLD Killarney Muster

Sep 11—14 Sunshine Nomads QLD Casino Muster Denn. Mulholland 0412 274 154

Sep 12—14 Family Firesiders QLD Gympie Muster Peter Snook 0419 688 853

Sep 12—14 Bayside Wanderers VIC Echuca Muster

Sep 12—14 Southerly Busters NSW Bungendore Muster Peter Stanhope 0419 225 271

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ACC Branch Directory

Branch Name & State Secretary Email

Family Firesiders QLD

Peter Snook 0419 688 853

[email protected]

Gippsland Gypsies VIC

Neil Kolmorgen 03 9707 3808

[email protected]

Gold Coast Gadabouts QLD

Shirley Carey 0408 451 206

[email protected]

Golden Westerners NSW

Graham Humphreys 0409 126 308

[email protected]

Hunter Ramblers NSW

Di Stubbs 02 4982 3815

[email protected]

Moreton Bay Drifters QLD

John Mathams 07 3351 1713

[email protected]

Southern Cross Overlanders SA

Pam Gregory 0437 093 412

[email protected]

Southern Highlanders NSW

Ellen Wightman 0447 001 370

[email protected]

Southern Nomads VIC

Geoff Halson 03 9758 5382

[email protected]

Sunshine Nomads QLD

Den. Mulholland 0412 274 154

[email protected]

Swan River Rovers WA

Kaye Petterson 08 9725 8925

[email protected]

Sundowners SA

Rolly Hill 08 8556 2273

[email protected]

Sydney City Slickers NSW

Lorraine Theodorus 0417 486 017

[email protected]

Wide Bay Burnett Nomads QLD

Jenny Rehren 07 4128 0379

[email protected]

Country Cruisers QLD

Robyn Ward 0417 780 201

[email protected]

Bayside Wanderers VIC

Ray Flynn 03 9707 0293

[email protected]

Northern Bushwhackers NSW

Sue Fletcher 02 6733 2003

[email protected]

Border Hoppers NSW/VIC

Leslie Gaskin 0418 479 855

[email protected]

Murray River Ramblers NSW

Gloria Griffiths 0428 236 158

[email protected]

Western Wallabies WA

Bruce Buchanan 0419 964 306

[email protected]

Southerly Busters NSW

Peter Stanhope 0419 225 271

[email protected]

Lakeside Drifters NSW

Max Plumb 0408 689 526

[email protected]

Tassie Travellers TAS.

Rod Barwick 0427 674 780

[email protected]

Brisbane Roustabouts QLD

Chris Lloyd 0412 614 260

[email protected]

Capricornia Tourers QLD

Mary Benney 0409 475 030

[email protected]

Cooloola Coasters QLD

Joan Smith 0438 387 948

[email protected]

Sydney Explorers NSW

Linda Armour 02 9624 6036

[email protected]

Your presence at a branch muster is always welcome, regardless of whether you are a member of a branch, or not. If you would like to attend just give the contact person a call so that you can get the current infor-mation. Full details can also be found on the Club’s website for those of you that are computer-literate.

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