Old Bar Beach Festival - Old Bar - New South Wales, Australia
The multi award winning Old Bar Beach Festival celebrates all that is special and unique about Aussie beach culture. Now in its 7th year the Festival has become known throughout Australia for its feature event, Kombi Fest, the largest gathering of kombi vans in Australia. In 2010 they came from all over Australia to break the record with 218 vans… a record organisers hope to again break in 2011.
Kombis will flock to the Old Bar Beach Festival in an assortment of colours and styles from the hippie to the fully restored classic and in 2011 they will be joined for the first time by other Classic and Vintage Volkswagen cars. The Festival features a Kombi Parade that travels through parts of the beautiful Manning Valley before arriving at Old Bar for the judging and display to the 20,000 visitors that now enjoy this multifacted event.
It’s only natural that the kombi van should feature at the Festival. It has become as iconic as the Aussie surf carnival or fish and chips on the beach. Despite having its heyday in the 1960’s and 1970’s the kombi generates great nostalgia for so many. What’s more it has been rediscovered of late not only by the baby boomers and wanderers travelling Australia but the many foreign backpackers who now see a trip up the coast in a Kombi as a must do Aussie experience. It has been represented in song, in film, in art but most of all in folklore as the only way to really experience a traditional Aussie beach holiday.
However the Old Bar Beach Festival is not just about but fond memories of the good old days of idyllic summer holidays on the coast... there is all the fun and activities of the coastal culture and lifestyle of Old Bar today. Popular events include the quirky Surf Expression Session, beach fun runs, flipper running races, kitesurfing, aviation displays, the annual skateboarding comp, huge coastal mega markets, amusement rides, free all day entertainment, art and sculpture exhibitions and so much more. So its time to pencil the Festival in your diary and start planning to hit the road, preferably in a Kombi! It’s Old Bar or bust October 1st and 2nd 2011.
For more information visit www.oldbarbeachfestival.com.au.
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Web: http://www.oldbarbeachfestival.com.au
