On the 548km drive from Marree to Birdsville on what is without doubt the rockiest, harshest, most inhospitable piece of road in the known universe including Mars, Jupiter and Uranus, we were discussing why Birdsville was named Birdsville.
Paul, a television reporter, suggested it was because of the large rock that tourists visit. Deb and Jo who own a shop in the beautiful town of Bangalow that features a sealed road thought it may be because the local pub is called the Birdsville Hotel. So you can see what I have had to put up with apart from trying to steer the world's oldest Mercedes laden with four large adults, camping gear, espresso machine and gallons of expensive wine and tequila on the above mentioned roads in this year's Shitbox Rally.
Of course, this may be the reason we shredded three tyres and two rims. In our team of seven cars we managed to shred nine tyres, put three holes in one sump and put a large hole in the fuel tank of Michael McMichael's BMW.