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What is the best route you have taken to darwin I would be coming from Pa or east coast. What airlines are best to look at | ||
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Will your choice is either Sydney or Brisbane. I've flown Qantas into both airports. Airline will be Qantas or AA. Don't know what class service you want to fly. But if you can get Premium Eco on one of the A380 flights it's very good, same deck as business. Business is better but very expensive. Don't know when you are going. But NYE in Sydney is something to see. Need at Agent call Nicole at Gracy x234. | |||
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Done AA and Quantas into Brisbane, AA much better in my opinion. Word of advice…clean your hunting boots very well and if you have ANY foodstuffs, be sure to declare it. We spent an hour and a half in an interrogation room being videoed while 4 customs guys with a K9 emptied all of our bags because my wife failed to declare a box of Pop Tarts. Karl Evans | |||
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Australian customs always give a laugh. Never been there, but seen episodes on Youtube. They do have a big problem with people mostly from the far east bringing all sorts of farm products. But, some of them seem to be a bit silly, and react with no common sense whatsoever! An American lady, I think, coming from one of the Asian countries, through several flights. Had an apple in her handbag, given to her on one of her flights. They gave her so much hassle, as if she was smuggling 10 kilo of hard drugs. Then insisted on fining her something like 200 dollars. She refused, after all the hassle. They kept her at the airport for several hours, then they let her go! | |||
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you could consider Newark to San Fransisco , to Singapore, to Darwin with Singapore airlines. Have an interesting stopover in Singapore and fly with a quality airline instead of an American one! Saeed! The Australian (and New Zealand) customs take fruit imports very seriously because of the very serious consequences of imported pests to our economies. $200 fine is in my opinion ridiculously too little. Last time fruit fly was found in Auckland it cost many millions to eradicate it including repeated spraying of the city. We don't have the luxury of vast oil reserves to shelter our economy. My daughter in law got fined $200 for a banana in a childs back-pack last year and was upset. It would have cost me personally in loss of income from my orchards, a lot more than that if there had been fruit fly on it! How else are you going to teach people, especially Asians, to take these regulations seriously. | |||
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I do agree with with smuggling things in like lot of the Asians do. But I would like to see some common sense. The lady wasn’t mulling anything in. The fruit was given to her on the plane, and I would wish the customs officer would see that. She did not pay the fine because she called their bluff! | |||
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Hunting.... it's not everything, it's the only thing. | |||
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What Karal said. They found cheat grass seed in places in my backpack I didn't know existed. They were very nice about it though. As usual, read the rules and do your best to follow them  | |||
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Paranoia at its highest level. | |||
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thanks everyone for all that info | |||
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Ya’ll might think it’s fun and games until you have to battle a non native invasive species on YOUR property!!! What counts is what you learn after you know it all!!! | |||
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It’s been a few years now, but I flew Qantas via DFW. To Darwin if I remember right. It’s one long flight. The Australian customs were no big deal… except for the rifles. I had to get in during working hours on a work day both ways. If I wasn’t so determined to use my double, I admit I would have just used a camp gun… had an extra hunting day. I think I still have my Australian gun permit card here somewhere… Fun place and wonderful people. Even the customs and gun people were nice. Just the rules were a bit over the top. Then on return I saw a young Australian girl who was going to camp Perry for the matches get treated the worst I have ever seen seen in any airport by our customs clowns. | |||
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Invasive plants are nothing to take lightly. In the next generation a vast part of the inter mountain west desert will be consumed by medusa head Fire stimulates it and nothing eats it. Just sayen  | |||
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Sort of like kudzu in the southeast US, or feral pigs over much of the US (pigs have totally ruined some of my hayfields, can’t shoot enough of them), or snakehead fish or pythons or iguanas. I’m sure there are lots of people wishing our US Customs people had been more diligent about these species. I can’t fault the Aussie customs people for doing their job…on the trip where Pop Tarts created a problem, the head lab guy helped me scrub every bit of dirt/cow poop off of mine and my wife’s boots. He was very pleasant the whole time. Can’t say the same about the guy that discovered the undeclared toaster pastries , but his supervisor didn’t impose a fine so only issue was a “seized” box of strawberry Pop Tarts and a couple of hours time. But…the couple traveling with us were absolutely scared shi*less during the whole ordeal, they searched their bags, too, but found no contraband .Karl Evans | |||
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anyone know if taking a bow is a big deal? | |||
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I did this five consecutive years. I live 45 minutes from Washington Dulles so did IAD to LAX to Brisbane to Darwin. What Karl said about customs in Brisbane. I innocently had one of those small peanut bags that they hand out on the plane in my carry on bag. I did not declare. After two hours of interrogation and lecture, they finally permitted me to go on. I truly believe that the anti gun/hunting customs bitch targeted me since I was traveling with a firearm. Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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First trip to Oz, late 80's. At that time the 747 from LAX could not make the flight nonstop. Your flights stop choices were Tahiti or Fiji. I picked Tahiti as you could take a break without additional charge. I found a plant that I thought my mother would like so I bought some seeds. I declared them in Sydney. What a mistake. Customs emptied my hard side suit case and weight each side looking for drugs. After they found nothing, I was free to go. If I had kept quite, I would have zipped right though. Last trip to Oz and NZ, first stop was Cairns for the GBR, then spent the next 2 weeks in Oz. Landed in Auckland, NZ custom went crazy about my snorkel equipment. Same ocean as Oz and they were going to confiscate it. After I explained the equipment had been dry for 2 weeks he let the equipment into NZ. | |||
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I think you might be right about being hard on hunters and the diligent customs officer that discovered my wife’s contraband was a large female. They searched all of our luggage, (videoed it, too) even pulled the foam out of my gun case. And, emptied my wife’s toiletry bag and opened (inspected) every bottle and tube of makeup. Plus, I didn’t see them dump the offending Pop Tarts into one of the many yellow trash cans where the Chinese passengers fish heads, pickled eels and dried fish were being dumped, I figure they took and ate them . After all of that we still had a great trip.Karl Evans | |||
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If I was coming out of the east coast USA to Darwin I wouldn’t start from there…. I have had customs take my boots I didn’t have time to clean from the Borneo jungle and clean them beautifully, with a don’t do that again warning! I always declared something, lollies, booze etc, usually got me through much quicker. But pop tarts, seriously? Better to declare them and you might have kept them. DRSS | |||
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I did a Double Rifle buffalo hunt in Australia back in 2012 IIRC. It was Cal, Scottyboy, OmnivorousRob, Mike Brooks and myself. We all went through all the proper jumping through hoops to get our permits in order. What we didn't know or understand, is that you need the same type stuff to get your rifle OUT of Australia. We all showed up in Darwin to go home, tried to check our bags & Guns. Their version of TSA just looked funny at us. They completely understood and actually helped us fill out all the export documents to get out stuff home. They were genuinely helpful and seemed to enjoy getting us on our way. IIRC, OmniverousRob was the only one of us that read all the rules and had his stuff in order. On the trip IN to Darwin, we flew Sydney-Darwin. When we were re-checking our guns in line, we were looked at like criminals, all of us having gun boxes standing in line. Australia is an odd place with their very strict policies on in/out and declaring stuff. I remember Scottyboy bought a didgeridoo. For some reason they would not allow him to carry it on the plane. As hard as it was to get the guns there, I'd never even consider going back to Australia to hunt. Formerly "Nganga" | |||
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