Fat Bike Tour – Bowen River – Burdekin Dam – Fletcher Creek – Townsville
This post is very late, but it is finally getting a go. At the end of September 2020 (last year) I took the opportunity to do a quick bicycle tour […]
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Fat Bike Cycle Touring – Ravenswood to the Burdekin Dam to Mt Coolon return
It’s been a while! In fact it has been nearly two years ago since we last went on a cycle touring trip. After that six week adventure we progressed through […]
Hughenden to Charters Towers to Townsville
The next post is a couple of days late. We actually arrived home in Townsville two days ago on Thursday afternoon after a looong day…but you will read about that […]
Windy Winton and on to Hughenden
After a relatively peaceful night with almost no wind, the next morning dawned with clouds of dust blowing across the road near the caravan park. It was that same strong […]
Longreach to Winton – days…a couple
Two nights in a caravan cabin was enough to give us itchy feet, thankfully only the metaphorical kind, and we were packed up by 7am ready to go. Darcy’s Diner […]
Stonehenge to Longreach – Days 24,25,26
We have no idea if the days in the title are correct. That’s the beauty of a long holiday, you start to forget what the date is and what day […]
Windorah to Jundah and Stonehenge – Days 23,24
Around 8am the next morning, we headed off for Jundah. It is almost 100km from Windorah and the road runs through some fantastically barren land with the occasional grid, sheep […]
Windorah and rest day
The last post finished rather abruptly because we were hot and hungry and tired. That was the first day we had experienced on this trip that was really hot and […]
Quilpie, rest day and onto Windorah – days 19-22
Unwashed, slightly grimy and covered with zinc, we arrived in the small town of Quilpie just after 9am the morning after our peaceful roadside stop. We had eked out a […]
Charleville rest day, Cooladdi and the Fox Trap Roadhouse PLUS water supplies – Days 17 – 18
A second day of rest was just what we needed in Charleville. We decided to book into the 9am town bus tour for $10, which ran for 2 hours, then […]
