Thread: Roos on the road at night.

I set my roof lights up so the outer ones shine well into the bush,the inner ones right on the edge of the road and the headlights straight ahead,gives more reaction time. Pat

Hell of a lot more than I see.
I see lots through the day as well along with emus, echidnas, eagles and spotted deer.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Hell of a lot more than I see.
I see lots through the day as well along with emus, echidnas, eagles and spotted deer.

Well I'm off to Perth soon so we'll see what's along the way there. I've been as far as Broome for the North and up as far as Karatha from the south. This'll complete me for being able to say I've been all around Australia.

Oh. I was going to start that last post with I drive day and night.

Was probably worse than that between Madura and Mundrabilla coming across the paddock last week.

Especially after a few drops of rain and some water puddles on the black top - they were all coming out for a drink. There's some bloody big ones out there too.

Wow ... you must have been travelling at 50km/h through that mess.

Are they in plague proportions again ? My drive to work is about 8minutes ... maybe 5kms and I almost hit a 'roo yesterday mornign on my way to work... broad daylight, 9:30 in the morning ... and a 'roo heads out of the paddocks .... must have been doing 40km/h ... the 2 oncoming cars and me do full on crash stops leaving about 1 meter between us as this thing hurtles through ... A massive bastard that stands higher than the 'roo bar on the rangey.... I'd only have taken it's legs out sending it through the windscreen. just to prove how smart it is ... 3/4of the way across the road, it stops and goes back. Gee's it would have look impressive if I had a dash cam. how the hell it didn't wipe out one of the cars is beyond me .... we all sat there for about 30seconds to scared to move wondering if the crazy bastard would go for a 3rd attempt and come hurtling back out of the bush again.

Oh well, it's all fun right I looked up in the paddock and all the animals were running around crazy .... I reckon there must have been someone out there shooting at the 'roos .... that's why it came hopping out of the trees at such a hell of a rate

Thanks Joe, I enjoyed your video, almost thought I was "there"!
What were you driving?
Pickles.

My Adelaide Hills street has enough of them that I travel at 40km/h most of the time to miss them. Hell, even on the mountain bike I've had to dodge the dopey beggars. Last week I chased one down the steep section of my road at 30-35 km/h until the roo saw walkers coming the other way. It's amazing how full size roos fit themselves through a single hole in the ring lock fencing.