In general inter-state car trips are hard in Aus for some strange reason.
Last time I checked not many firms allowed you to take a car into or out of
the Northern Territory (or WA) (I have just done a Townsville-Darwin trip
and only Europcar and Hertz allowed it - and they do NOT hire 4WD which
makes some of the gravel roads a little tricky legally speaking - around
Isa the McNamara Rd (Carpentarian GW) is good gravel, Painted Rocks
(Kalkadoon GW) is definitely high clearance 4WD only - we hired a Budget
4WD for the day to do this. Furthermore I think Europcar has no depot in Mt
Isa and Hertz is not open Sat pm or Sunday. A real pain I know.
Note also that many "remote" places have a very limited daily km allowance
- I was going to do Darwin-Townsville but car came with only 100 free kn a
day - in reverse (same car and company) had unlimited. So may be worth
looking at your trip in both directions!
On 3 August 2013 08:30, Keith Betton <> wrote:
> I mentioned a few weeks back that I was planning to come over. Thanks to
> the Birding-Aus members who have been in touch.
> I have three questions at the moment:
> - How easy is it to do a Alice to Mt Isa one-way trip (ie drop the car) -
> or do they not allow it?
> - Can anyone direct me to some Banded Stilts that are visible somewhere
> around Adelaide/Port Augusta?
> - I want to look for Mallee Emu-wren, and am think of Billiatt CP. I
> guess they are scarce there - so if anyone has been lucky with them do
> please let me know where in the park you saw them. (I assume it is 2WD and
> not 4WD).
>
> Regards and thanks.
>
>
> Keith Betton
>
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