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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1290122" data-attributes="member: 27337">Kunoth Bore , Trip Financial update , etcetcCheck edited last post for embarassing admission of recent ids now thought to be less than undodgy.Ads-yes we did go to the Curtain Fig. Good parkup in fact in area hard to find spots to stop overnight.H- Vid not for general consumption I'm afraid. It's for the best.Chowie- Aha! Yes these birds seem to be in the zone between the two species don't they! When I first saw them I thought they looked small enough to be Paperbarks, then I looked at range map and thought hmmmm. Then I did what all good birders shouldn't do, and went to look for other birds instead as I didn't "need" either species. When you don't have much time it's sad, but who wants to spend half an hour trying to get a good view of rictal bristle length on a flycatcher you've seen already when there's probably a lifer parrot in the next bush. I guess that's what sorts out the real birders from tarts like me. So I reckon Ads is spot on with Paperless Fly.Kunoth BoreWe found it! Head north for 20km out of Alice on main highway then left on the sealed Tanami rd for c30km and it's on the left by a big windmill. Looks like a cracking spot as there were lots of birds around considering it was dry. Must be amazing when there is water in it. Just spent a couple of hours there in late afternoon and came back to Alice. Call me paranoid but I reckon it would be a sketchy place to spend the night.Didn't see any of the many target birds, but had little groups of Southern Whiteface and Crimson Chat feeding round the van, as well as seeing the first Red-capped Robins, Mulga Parrots and Crested Bellbird of the trip, Varied Sittelas, Grey-crowned Babblers etc. Van's at the quacks, so if all gos well and it gets fixed today we might try going there tomorrow morning. Surely I've got to luck into something. Please.Trip Financial UpdateWe've finally been able to do some calculations that may perhaps be useful to anyone wondering about the costs of a trip like this.It cost us a bit less than 3000 pounds each for the 7 months and one week journey between Bristol and Singapore. Everything included. Costs could have been reduced considerably by removing beer and internet (especially BF!)from the equation, spending less time in Europe (especially London!), and buying the transiberian ticket in Moscow train station rather than in the UK. Note that in Asia the cost of single and double rooms are often the same, so anyone doing this alone would incur a greater cost. We also could have reduced costs by staying in cheaper places on many occasions.The boat trip to Oz was expensive, 800 pounds each including everything, so a flight would be cheaper.In Oz we've spent 1500 pounds each so far in 3 months, not including the initial cost of the van, which we're hoping to recoup (!). Costs could be reduced hugely by reducing beer and internet, and by sharing transport costs by having a bigger "team".Hopefully that's of some help (VB?)1148 Crested Bellbird1149 Red-capped Robin1150 Mulga Parrot</blockquote>

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