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A New Branch for Queensland
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
At the last Board Meeting, a new branch was approved for the Brisbane region.
The "ACC Moreton Bay Drifters" will be holding their inaugural muster at the Pottsville North Holiday Park from January 30th to 2nd February, 2009.
Congratulations to Ron and his team.
Any members in the area who are interested in either joining the new branch, or who may like to join in on the inaugral muster, should contact Ron, using his contact details in the Branch Contacts Section of this site.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 January 2009 )
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A.C.C.E.S.S. Australian Caravan Club Environmentally Safe Scheme
Thursday, 11 September 2008
AUSTRALIAN CARAVAN CLUB - CARING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
LAUNCHING OUR OWN SELF-CONTAINMENT SCHEME
More and more freedom loving caravanners who wish to camp independently of formal caravan parks, are now travelling in vans that are self-contained. They have their own cassette toilets, fresh water tanks and the capacity to retain grey water and other waste either on board or in sealed removable containers. To cater for this trend and ensure that all of this waste can be disposed of responsibly, Councils and other authorities are providing dump points, water taps and decent size waste bins in towns around the country.
Also recognising this move to self-containment, a growing number of authorities are restricting the use of existing informal camping areas (we call them independent camps) to self-contained RV's. Many authorities, in an effort to encourage RV travellers to stop and spend in their towns, are creating new short term stopovers for self-contained RVs. They recognise that these stopovers attract money into their town that might otherwise be spent elsewhere.
To ensure compliance with self-containment requirements some authorities are insisting that caravanners and motorhomers who want to use such areas provide evidence of their capacity to be self-contained.
To cater for this requirement and to show our determination to be environmentally friendly campers, the Australian Caravan Club has introduced a self-containment scheme that we have called the Australian Caravan Club Environmentally Safe Scheme (ACCESS). This scheme not only identifies a caravan as being self-contained, it also includes a requirement that a member sign and be bound by a Code of Conduct, stating their intention to abide by environmentally friendly principles. Members who join the scheme will be supplied with a window sticker and a copy of the code to keep in their caravan and show on request.
It is not intended that self-contained vans be inspected and certified although in time we hope to have a network of experienced members who can help with any queries.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 December 2008 )
Has our Chairman lost his marbles?
Monday, 01 September 2008
In another of his rash, impulsive and exciting, spur-of-the-moment decisions, our chairman made a last minute application to join the ACC Sunshine Nomads Tag-along Tour of outback Queensland which finishes at the Annual Muster at Casino.
Not content with travelling from Mornington, Victoria to Katherine in the Northern Territory via the Flinders Ranges, Oodnadatta Track and Alice Springs and then to Karumba on the Gulf of Carpentaria before heading across the North on the Savannah Way to reach the East Coast at Innisfail, he now intends to add another 800km to his trip to arrive in Roma in time to join about 20 other ACC members on what promises to be a fantastic trip.
Lionel is no stranger to Western Queensland as he, and wife Vi, were school photographers at one stage of their chequered careers, and many children, now grown to adulthood with families of their own, would have had their pictures taken by them in schools in places like Longreach, Tambo, Barcaldine and Blackall.
In many ways it will be a journey of remembrance – like the afternoon in Charleville when, after taking all the class photos, Lionel discovered there was no film in the camera and had to do them all again before they moved on to Augathella that same day. Yes - Murphy had already showed his hand back then.
“The itinerary looks fantastic.” says Lionel. “How could I resist the chance to travel to those wonderful outback towns again – this time with fellow ACC club members?”
I’m sure he won’t regret his decision and will have much to recount when they all arrive at the Muster.
