Thread: Photos of your dog

@JessicaChen Back just seen this post as l was going through looking at the hounds & thought this may interest you ,in 2004 we did a huge trip to Central Australia by motorbike, we raced in 04 Finke Desert Race, had 2 weeks off & then rode across the Simpson Desert & up the Big Red Sand Dune out of Birdsville QLD around 1400klm & 6 days all up .


The deserts in Central Australia had see some of the best rains in living memory & while we were prepping for & doing the Finke Desert Race the flocks of Budgerigar's were that huge while they flew to & from fresh patches of seed grass that they looked like bushfire smoke at first from a distance ,their was tens of thousands of them in the murmurs.

Then as we got into the center of the remote Simpson Desert we witnessed the rare sight of the reason the Simpson Desert has the world's longest parallel sand dunes ,the north-south oriented dunes form & remain that way growing to around 100ft, because when they get big rain it pools at the base of the dunes in miles long narrow pools & remains for weeks meaning the dunes are then held in position by vegetation ,(mainly seed grasses & spinifex), that grows with the help of the pooled water. What that meant was we would come over the top of these big dunes at full throttle & be greeted by huge flocks of mainly Cockatiels .

These flocks of Cockatiels were that huge that they would black out the sky ,(many the same color as yours),as they were feeding on the seed grass around these long strips of water & bathing & drinking from them .These huge flocks were that big that at sunset they would fly in for their chosen patch at night & would make their own wind, there was literally Millions of them making the most of the water & feed in the middle of the desert .We were also surprised to also see ducks making the most of the desert sand dune pools & had to wonder how far they had flown into to make the most of it.