Howdy,
This is a general request for information on birding
and just all-around travelling in Australia. Any
advice is welcome; I am woefully underprepared for a
trip of this magnitude.
My name is Randy Yuen, and I'm a birder from Colorado.
I will be in Australia from Oct7 to roughly February,
at which time I plan to head down to New Zealand for a
few months.
My current plan is to travel a big ring route. I fly
into Sydney. After a few days, I then fly to Alice
Springs, and then proceed north to Darwin and Kakadu,
east to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, then work
my south back down to Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and
Adelaide. Except the jump to Alice Springs, I plan to
do this all by Greyhound bus. Oh, and possibly spend
1-2 weeks in Tasmania at some point.
The reason for this odd route is to see as much of
your beautiful country as possible, and at the same
time, avoid the intense heat in central and northern
Australia by doing them first. The other quasi-reason
was to hit a few of the pelagic trips leaving from
Wollongong, by being in the Sydney area a few
different times of the year.
None of this is set in stone; the reason for this
email is to get a sanity check from a local - do you
think this makes any sense at all? Will this allow me
to see a lot of the Fauna of Australia?
Do you have any recommendations, and most especially,
do you think you might want to show a tired Yank
around your local patches when I'm in town? Thanks so
much for any help or advice you can lend me.
Randy Yuen
Denver, Colorado
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