Alive to Mt Isa by car & Banded Stilts

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 <keithbetton@hotmail.com> 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 > > > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================