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Small bush festival wins big
Annual Boggabri Drovers' Campfire in rural NSW wins Australian Tourism Awards trophyA family-friendly bush and farm festival that attracts hundreds of campers and caravanners to a tiny north-western NSW town each year, has won a major trophy at the 2015 Australia Tourism Awards.
The Drover’s Campfire in Boggabri collected the Silver trophy in the Festival and Events category of the major tourism awards, behind the ‘Gold’ winning Fun4Kids Festival in Victoria.
From humble beginnings in 2006, when the first week-end event attracted just 29 vehicles and caravans and included a big campfire, story-telling, poems and music at night and tours by day, the Boggabri Drovers' Campfire has grown into a significant annual event with more than 2200 people and around 500 caravans and motorhomes attending in 2015.
According to the festival website, “the weekend involves entertainment, campfire cooking, bush yarns and demonstrations of rural activities and connects visitors with good old fashioned bush values and past-times”.
Some of the activities scheduled for this year’s event, which runs April 20-25, include picking cotton, visiting a local coal mine and beef cattle farm, and a picnic at Dripping Rock, a local attraction.
Other ‘old school’ activities planned include a trivia night, vintage fashion parade, antique machinery display, and billy boiling competition, as well as whip cracking, blacksmith, wood turning, and working dog demonstrations. Nightly entertainment includes musicians, singers and skits, as well as sessions for budding bush poets.
The campground set aside for the event at the local showground includes access to an amenities block and dump point, as well as fresh water. Pets and generators are welcome, and powered and unpowered sites are available.
Meanwhile, a swag of other RV-related businesses also took home trophies at the 2015 Australian Tourism Awards including three ‘five star’ BIG4-affiliated caravan parks.
Serial award winner, the Deniliquin Holiday Park in NSW, won the Caravan and Holiday Parks category, with runners up the BIG4 Beacon Resort in Victoria and BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort in Queensland.
Tasmanian campervan and motorhome rental business, Cruisin’ Motorhomes, which also has depots in NSW and Queensland, was runner-up in the Specialised Tourism Services category, behind Canberra Airport.
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