Trip to see the Golden Guitar

Stop reminding me.

 

Change your belts and tyres and come on a GG Papster.

 

Tyres are sorted, belts will be right.

Yeah, one day mate. Need to stop working myself to death first.

 

Geez the front looks nice. That’s the first time I’ve seen it..


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I wish he'd keep taking the blue thing,I see the front of that a lot..................................................briefly

 

fixed

 

Olio


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very sad...

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/08/21/13/39/man-dies-swerve-avoid-kangaroo-fossickers-way-bingara-new-south-wales

 

Very sad, but not all that surprising.

I was genuinely shocked by the kangaroo carnage on my recent drive to Cairns.
It was particularly bad in NSW, particularly in the Cobar / Bourke area and a few hundred km north of there.
I kid you not there was a dead roo probably every hundred metres or so for hundreds of km.
I had at least half a dozen very near misses (having to emergency brake / swerve) each way.

I don’t want to start a whole thing here as it is my uncle’s company and opinions vary wildly as to the effectiveness of it, but even if it makes only a slight difference if I was regularly driving in the outback I’d definitely have a Shu-Roo fitted (and a roo bar). Pretty cheap insurance considering the alternative, IMO.

I’ll definitely get one fitted before my next drive to Cairns in Feb.

 

No seatbelt

 

Having driven that road 3 times in the past, 1 and a half times doing a Cunnabloodymulla return!,.....

A/you don't drive it at night.
B/always drive with a bullbar.
C/I don't have a response to the Shooroo or those little plastic sonic thingys,they certainly would make no difference at night.

Between the 'Cruiser and the car trailer I took out at least 20 of the bloody things.
After about the 5th I didn't bother using the brakes,talk about plague proportions....

Mind you,the silly bloody Emu's tried it on as well,on my way back from Tassie in the ute I had a flock of 5 cross the road in front of me after 8 of 'em were running parallel for a hundred metres,all of a sudden 5 of 'em decided to do a left....4 of 'em were faster than the 5th....I had him/her/it,bent over the front of the ute as the tyre smoke was subsiding in the rearview mirror..........the bloody sh%t was looking at me to dare run him/her/it over!

 

Yep sad when you have the tools...

 

First rule of driving in the outback.............do not swerve to avoid hitting the wild life.

Sad news, feel sorry for his family and friends.

 

Totally agree with all of that.
I would just say that the closest two calls I had during the whole 6500km journey was at 10am with a roo, and 1pm with - of all things - a goat. So while not driving at dusk / night will definitely lessen the risk it won’t eliminate it.

Along the way I dodged roos, goats, pigs, sheep, emus, cattle, countless birds (mainly crows who were on the road eating the carrion), and people who can’t drive. Not to mention the countless large recently killed roos which were filling the lane ahead and necessitating a move into the other lane.

It actually made me wonder how I’d go doing that in the Ferrari, given it is so low, and of course couldn’t mount a bull bar or a ShuRoo.
How do you idiots go on the GG?

 

+10000%

 

Well interestingly I saw a billion goats and they were the best behaved of all,totally afraid of vehicles and going nowhere near the road

 

YEP! Roos 2... 1 Daytona + ! 308QV

Plus various other ...um...distractions...

 

Dumbest / bravest wildlife would have to be the Cape Barron geese that just stand in the middle of the track at Phillip Island...

 

I love goats




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