Day 12 – Cairns to Townsville by train
The train leaves Cairns at 9am to head south and gets to Townsville at 3pm. When I arrived to check-in at 8am there was already a long queue of older […]
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Day 11 -Craiglie to Cairns
On the final riding day of my trip I finally got to have the ‘wet tent experience’! It was bucketing down when I woke up at 5.30am, so I stayed […]
Day 10 – Mareeba to Mount Molloy to Port Douglas…
It was raining quite heavily when I woke early the next morning. I was both grateful to be in a house, and slightly disappointed to have missed out on the whole […]
Day 9 – Herberton to Mareeba
It had been a surprise to find out the previous afternoon that Atherton was only 18 kilometres from Herberton. My plan had been to have a short day and spend the […]
Day 8 – Mount Garnet to Herberton
Breakfast consisted of eggs on toast and coffee at the BP Roadhouse. It was only necessary of course, seeing I had not had to pay for the campsite. Then it […]
Day 7 – Undara Lodge to Mount Garnet
There was a fair bit of procrastination this morning. As much as I tried to convince myself that I felt good and was raring to go, my legs still felt […]
Days 5 & 6 – The Lynd Oasis Roadhouse to Undara Lodge…and a rest day!
All I could think about as I set off around 7.30am from The Lynd Oasis Roadhouse was how good a rest day would be. Before this trip started, I had […]
