I stayed 4 nights, Wednesday night was cloudy, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights were clear. Friday morning was cold, -0.9C with a breeze.
I looked through three 16" scopes (Ron's, Kevin's and a new 16" Meade Lightbridge), also Len's 18", Norman's 25" and Peter's 30" scope. Saw the pillars of creation in M16 with AstroJunks 20" via a monitor. We saw NGC 6888 the Cresent Nebula through Peter's 30", that was a highlight for me. It looked like this in B&W:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030415.html. We also followed the coast of the North America nebula with the 30".
I slept in a cubicle on a double decker bed, a mixed dorm with up to 28 in it, many snoring! (a guy from Scotland was one of them!) Luckily earplugs were provided. Ian and Sue cooked great meals and I met lots of iceinspace people and others. I also met two young guys David and Darren from near where I live. The place was crowded, 142 people slept there on Saturday night. Five vendors sold things on Friday and Saturday morning. The talk on Friday was by Donna Burton about her asteroid searches and on Saturday Fred Watson talked about dark matter, dark energy and dark skies. Unfortunately the country and dams are very dry, the Brisbane river is dry at Duckadang and the bore ran dry on Saturday afternoon. There were two dead cows about 1km up the road.