CAMPERS-DOT- ORGANISED

Each year the CamperTrailers.org web group calls all its members to attend an annual gathering somewhere in western NSW for a week of camper trailer-related activities, good times with like-minded folk and to raise funds to assist a struggling small community. For 2019 the date was September 30 to October 4, and the destination was Bonalbo, a tiny town in the Upper Clarence Valley, almost on the Queensland border and one that is deep in the grip of one of the worst droughts in memory.

When the announcement of the destination was made, at the end of the 2018 gathering at Bungendore, near Canberra, there was some surprise. Few had heard of Bonalbo and this was further north than the group had yet been over its 14-year history of these gettogethers. The usual target towns have been in the central west, where it is