While most would steer clear of a Hyundai Getz while travelling, I
myself found it to be quite a reliable, quite comfortable car while
travelling from Perth inland through Cue to Port Headland and then south
back to Perth along the coast. While the poor thing came back orange
rather than the light blue it left as, the car happily took on dirt
roads, corrugations, sea spray and mining trucks!
The key thing is to make sure your hire company allows travel off formed
public roads. Then it's up to your interpretation as to whether this
means sealed or unsealed. The interpretation there is usually clarified
a couple of pages later, after you have bounced along for a while,
observed numerous Orange Chats but missed the Banded Whiteface which was
why you were driving down the public, but unsealed track.
Back to birding, I have recently moved north from Deniliquin to
Griffith. Our new abode, although being across the road from tall tanks
of a winery, has provided every morning so far a natural alarm clock in
a pair of Pied Butcherbirds, a pair of Black-winged Kite and Kestrel
both nesting within a short (200m) walk and Variegated Fairy-wrens and
Singing Honeyeaters along the roadside veg.
Cheers
David Parker
Griffith, NSW
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Graham
Etherington
Sent: Saturday, 26 August 2006 3:40 PM
To: Tony Russell
Cc: BIRDING-AUS
Subject: RFI: Strzelecki Track condition
Hi,
Thanks for the quick replies.
Currently, these places are just names in a book and I've no idea of
they type of terrain I'm entering. Whereabouts does the going get
tough/risky?
Is the number for Mt Lyndhurst still 08 8675 7796?
Many thanks,
Graham
On 8/26/06, Tony Russell <> wrote:
> Hm ! Well, you could try, but I wouldn't myself.
>
> Tony,
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Graham
> Etherington
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 2:06 PM
> To: BIRDING-AUS
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] RFI: Strzelecki Track condition
>
>
> Hi all,
> I find myself in SA next weekend for my first ever visit, so I'm
hiring
> a car and spending 3 days around Flinders/Lyndhurst. I want to try and
> see Chestnut-banded Whiteface and many of the other birds people
target
> for the region. My only concern is about the state of the Strzelecki
> Track. Is the part of the Strzelecki Track that I'll need to travel
> drivable in a small 2WD car (Hyundai Getz)? Any 'recent' gen on birds
of
> the area would be gratefully received too. Many thanks, Graham
>
> --
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> Indooroopilly,
> Queensland, Australia
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