Richard
You have come to the right place! Snake Valley Camp is on March 8-12 next year. Snake Valley is just over an hour west of the centre of Melbourne. Last night was the final night of their November camp and the skies were spectacular once the moon went down!
We usually have a number of visual observers and quite a few imagers there. It is fairly casual but very friendly.
The club website is here
http://ballaratman.wix.com/svaa#! and the events page is here
http://ballaratman.wix.com/svaa#!events .
I was speaking to Ken who runs the website and the Camps webpage is down at the moment, but hopefully he will have more info up again soon.
Malcolm