Flooded Secetion of Birdsville Track May be Open Today

Hi Boobook

When I rang this morning at 9.30am, my contact is on leave and will not be back until next Monday. What I can also now officially report from the next person in charge was that there was a team up there at the Birdsville Track site as I was on the phone and officially at 10am, today the 12th January 2012, the ferry will be taken out of service and the Birdsville Track will be open to all traffic.

He did say however that the ferry is still floating on the water and will only be put back on its blocks once they are 100% sure that the flow coming down the Cooper again will not reach and cross the Birdsville Track.

So hopefully early next week I will be able to post the next lot of Official figures from Transport SA.



Cheers



Stephen

Dont worry about your contacts, just check out the outback roads report and it shows the BVT is now open.
BS

We took a flight over the lake and up the cooper from the inlet up to The Ferry, Wrights Air. There were over 10,000 pelicans ( the pilot's estimate). They have all concentrated along that section of the cooper. Last time I went over the lake when it was full we didn't see any.

What a sight! Very memorable.

Thanks for your help Steve.

Hi BS

If I did not worry about my contacts, I would not have been able to give out the details over the last 2 years here on the forum. The details that I have given out you will not find anywhere else but here on the forum, or if you can they would have been taken from what I had written.

And for the record, when I posted the above, the Birdsville Track Ferry was still running and again here on the forum, readers will have read before anywhere else that the ferry was taken out of service at 10am today, well after your 3.30pm reply.




Stephen

Hi Boobook

Yes the bird life from the air must be seen to be believed, and what a sight it was. Your flight would have been fantastic and I am pleased to be of help to you and others here on the forum.



Cheers



Stephen

Stephen
Your posts have been a great help to may travellers over the past few years. (Me included). Thanks for the wonderful reports. It's because of people like your that others can enjoy the outback without fear of being caught out.
Regards
Skip

Hi Skip

Thanks for that. It is like I mentioned before here on the forum, once I started to give out the information, it had to be accurate and I intended to follow it through until the ferry stopped running.


Cheers



Stephen

Hi Darian

That is strange, as I would have thought that yes, 2010 was a very wet year with the greatest ever closures of the Birdsville Track because of the wet weather and it would have effected tourists travelling the Birdsville Track.

However last year during 2011 the Birdsville Track did not suffer from the constant rain of the previous year and was open all the time. The only tourists that would not have been able to head that way would have been travellers in large caravans.

I would have thought that they would have been a minority compared to the camper trailer, tent travellers that travelled the Track last season.

When we were at Mungeranie last year, there seemed the usual number of vehicles there like a normal year, but then Phil would know from the figures.


Cheers


Stephen

Gday Stephen,
Maybe Phil at Mungarannie is sick and tired of the mice and rats he's had to deal with?

Hi Phil

As they say, one pest moves out and another moves in to take its place....LOL



All the Best to you and your family for 2012.



Cheers



Stephen

Hi Sharon

Do you know how it compares to the other flows when it came down and crossed the Birdsville Track, and do you think that it could do so again at this very early stage?



Cheers



Stephen

Hi Steve, i dont think it would change anything down further towards Btrack. Inna is pretty dry now. John said current flow is from Grant. It would take another decent Tc to have any real impact like ave seen in the last two years. Unfortunately Qld folk need to put up with Cyclones to fill the Cooper completly.
Sharon

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Cooper crossing on the Adventure Way

Hi Phil

I have not heard any reports about the Warburton at this stage and I know that a lot of people are waiting for the crossing to be open again.



Cheers



Stephen

Thanks Stephen

I had been following your track reports and was waiting for a chance to ask you. I cannot PM you. Not a member.

No more follow ups please folks. This is off topic and I am trying to be a good boy this year.

Phil