Birdsville Track.

Hell Jim - is there somewhere else you can go ? "Bloody hot" hardly describes it. You could have a "good time" I suppose (weather permitting) BUT you'll need to plan for the worst case scenario as back-up - leaving reasons aside, make sure you have the water, the shade, the communications hardware, the tucker, tools and spares so that you can survive on a treeless plain, in high heat levels, with no breeze, hundreds of k's from the nearest service center ! Call me over-cautious, but that's what I do for a trip there in July.

and heaps more bloody flies!!!!
Did it last october holidays, got stranded in the mud for 3 days. At least it was not dusty.
Cheers

Vic alps sound a much better idea, march flies will be friendly but at least there is some water around, the buggers can't swim!!!

Flies ? Oh yes.....there are flies too ! (thought there was enough gloom to relate to Jim without adding the ever present, bad in summer, trying at other times .... flies !

Good idea, the temperature is already sliding up to the 50's (over 40 for the last few days).

As far as the flies are concerned there seems to be some common misunderstandings though. Whether it is hot or cooler has very little to do with how bad they are, though obviously they won't be doing too much under 16 degrees. There seems to be some bad years and some good years. For instance at the moment the flies are not bad at all ! Yet in April they were shocking....

The end result is that you will never know just how good/bad the flies are anywhere unless you are there! (Much like asking somebody what the road conditions are on a certain track......It will totally depend on the individual's experiences.....Ah, the beauty of life)

As far as wet season goes here, there is no guarantee of floods in summer. In fact, there are more dry summers than wet ones! Then when it does rain up north we usually have between a month and two month's warning that the water is coming.

Hope this clears up some misunderstandings re: weather around Birdsville.