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Darlington Park - 18th to 20th of July

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This trip was to somewhere new with a whole bunch of new friends. Oldmate and Clouty from the Myswag Offroad Camper Trailer forum had organised a SE QLD meet at Darlington Park.  I had been meaning to go to one of the Myswag meets for a couple of years now and it was great to finally get to one and meet some great people. I think the final count was 19 or 20 groups so a great turnout for a cold winter weekend. We took the day off from work and school on Friday and left around 8.30 hoping to miss most of the morning trafiic. We had a slight delay courtesy of a 3 car bingle at the start of the Gateway Motorway, but it cleared fairly quickly and Anna and I were kept amused with the banter on the UHF between the truckies and the tow truck drivers. We arrived at Darlington Park around 11am after paying our fees ($34 for a family of 4  for 2 nights... cheaper than National Parks) we found the Myswag group and tried to set-up. The wind on Friday was horrible with really strong gusts, we rea