A group of travellers stuck in an outback pub in South Australia on their way to Birdsville were granted an exemption to use the rain sodden track and head to the popular music festival.
abc.net.au/news/big-red-bash-travellers-mungerannie-stranded-birdsville-track/102556616About 100 South Australians stranded at an outback pub were granted an exemption to use the rain sodden Birdsville Track on the weekend to make it to this week's Big Red Bash music festival.It hampered plans for road trippers on their way to the Birdsville Big Red Bash music festival
Mungerannie publican Andrew Norman said the travellers were granted an exemption to use the track on SaturdayMungerannie Hotel publican Andrew Norman said travellers stranded in the town were allowed to use the track after being granted access to a northern section on Saturday morning. "The police up at Birdsville sort of arranged and got a special permit for them to be able to vacate," he said."So they sort of created a bit of a caravan trail and they all headed out about 9am on Saturday morning."
It meant the travellers en route to Birdsville's Big Red Bash music festival were stranded just 315 kilometres from their destination for nearly a week."There was one car that sort of had a bit of trouble along the way but everyone was together so they all sort of helped out," Mr Norman said.He said travellers were forced to travel at a maximum of about 40 kilometres per hour along the track.
"It's just a matter of knowing your way around … it's the mud holes and things you've got to get through, but they're quite rocky at the bottom, so it's just a matter of tracking through."
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