Australian CamperTrailers
national meet at Condobolin 2010

friday

camper trailer walkabout

    Dave Cook once again hosted another well attended camper trailer walkabout. Members give a brief talk on what they like about their camper, points they don't like & modifications they have done or they would like to do to make camping all that more enjoyable.

magnet making for the kids

    Tracey Smidt held a magnet making workshop for the kids. This involved colouring line drawing sketches and gluing these onto a fridge magnet. There were plenty of variations. Some of the girls decorated their bikes with their creations.   

uhf radio

    A workshop was given by Kevin Beckwith. Workshops like this gives members the chance to get face to face, one on one feedback, rather than the usual quetions & replies via the CamperTrailers Group.

    Kevin Beckwith started the session discussing the aspects of UHF use as a means of communicating between vehicles travelling together   or other road users. He then went on to aerials & the different types & their suitability in different types of terrain. 

closing ceremony

    Friday afternoon saw the closing ceremony. Kevin thanked everyone for their attendance. Mayor Mainwaring once again attended and thanked us for choosing Condobolin as the venue of our national meet and hoped we all had a great time and a safe trip home. He extended an invitation to plan a revisit at some stage.

    Kevin and Rob presented over $1000 in money that had been raised through raffles, the trivia night and auction, to Rob Baxter president of the Lions. He thanked us for our generosity and hoped we would come back again.

    Kevin & Rob thanked the Condobolin Lions for supplying the firewood over the week and also councilor Marg Weales for making sure everything went smoothly during our stay.

    Rob went on to hand out certificates of appreciation to members who had given their time in hosting workshops.

    Alan Haworth donated six locks and vinyl coated coil cables which were raffled off. Alan drew the six winning tickets.

    Over the week members were encouraged to nominate someone for 'The Person Who Most Represents the Group' award. Neil and Margaret Morton had donated a perpetual trophy which Margaret presented to Dave Cook. Dave has a fantastic time at the weekend meets as well as the national meets and was nominated for his enthusiasm and in the way he has promoted the group.

    Another award presented was the ‘Condobolin Capers’ award which is for the most embarrassing or funniest moment during the week. This went to Colin and Libin Lu and family. On the Wednesday morning they drove into town looking for the ‘Lions Club’ and asked locals the location of it as they were cooking breakfast for them. They were told there was no ‘Lions Club’ in town, so they decided that they would go back to camp and cook their own breakfast. On returning to the showground they saw a long line up to the Lions Caravan. On asking what was going on, they were told this was the queue for the cooked breakfast by the Lions Club.

    Rob and Kevin welcomed Jason Cox onboard as a co-owner and moderator of the forum.

    At this stage in proceedings the location of next years national meet had not been decided.
 

See ya all next year.

Rob

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