MUNDI MUNDI BASH FEATURE
For three days in August, the privately owned Belmont Station on the windy Mundi Mundi Plains just out of Silverton, NSW, becomes the location for the largest caravan park in the world (well, at least Australia) for the annual Mundi Mundi Bash.
Affectionately known as ‘Bashville,’ this mini city of a record 12,246 people in about 4500 caravans, camper trailers and RVs and a handful of tents and swags emerges from the desert plains with military precision. Rigs of all shapes and sizes are spread over 5000 sites in a semicircular plot of roads and interconnecting pathways.
Bash founder and CEO Greg Donovan told me that he's estimated the combined total value of all the RV equipment on site including vans, campers, motorhomes and tow vehicles at about $1 billion, based on a figure of $200,000 per rig. My guestimate is more conservative based on the rigs I observed while sitting in the line waiting to get into the site. Even at $100,000 per rig, there's $450
