Mazhead says:
Tanks Carmageddon.....thats a pretty awesome story yerself! I forgot to mention another 'wildlife' incident' that happened to us while the wife was driving.........
We were heading to Central Australia, Alice Springs to be more precise. We had an old HQ Holden panelvan (brand new at the time...) as the wife was a courier for TNT, and we were delivering a load of indoor potted plants to her sister on a cattle station near Alice. After spending the night at Port Augusta, we got an early start, and were heading north. It's beautiful country, wild and wooded, with a few rock formations dotting the countryside.....and plenty of wildlife! After being scared by a couple of roo's bounding along the road next to us(they do have this habit of just turning in front of you, so It's hell out there!....) we then came across a large flock of galahs (a pink and grey parrot for the O/S ppl.....) they too were flying in the same direction as the car was travelling..........not so bad you would think..........but then, they turned a complete 180 degrees, and all of a sudden, It was raining parrots on the windscreen! We couldn't see through the glass!
There was guts, blood, s***, feathers, carcasses, wings, beaks, dead birds, half dead birds, pieces of birds.....everywhere! I yelled out to Barb..."hit the brakes"
She turned on the windscreen wipers! OMG! The wipers got stuck on dead bird carcasses, flipped and jumped across the windscreen! Now we couldn't see anything! just this smear of....well you all know what it was....Geezez!
Eventually, my wife did apply the brakes, realizing that this situation wasn't going to be a simple 'squirt of the washer bottle! Ha Ha!
Surprisingly, there was no damage, not even a crack in the windscreen! Phew! A lucky break! there were other incidents....like on the road to Ayers Rock....the road was completely blocked by a herd of 'steers'....with the owner nowhere to be seen! Resulting in a 4 wheel skid! bob
10/31/2006
Eyre Pen. Sth Aust.