A dawdle over rolling hills to the cafe at the top of the Gillies Highway for a morning coffee and cake. Never too much cake.

Then it was over a few more hills, seemingly getting steeper, before starting down the …

Out of Milla Milla the worst way. With a 2km climb up a hill.

Then 20 km of rolling hills and a dangerously narrow main road to Malanda.

Malanda was having its annual agricultural show so took the opportunity to …

A day off in lovely Milla Milla.

Bacon and eggs at one cafe, a walk up the street to the museum and coffee and scones at another.

Some of the locals gave some background on why the old Milla Milla …

A good road and a more of less continuous gradual climb up the western fall of the Great Dividing Range to Ravenshoe (the last climb into town was a grind).

Ravenshoe is pretty much at the highest point on the …

Struck camp after drying off the light rain.

Downhill ride for twenty kilometres to Hidden Valley Resort (For Sale) but the road got progressively rougher so the thirty kilometers to the Ewan iron ore mine (closed) took four hours!

Popped …

Time to wrap it up.

I ring Robyn back in Perth ‘hello sweetie, I have finished and am ready to come home’.

Robyn to Stuart ‘no way, I am not ready, go somewhere else!’

Hmmmm. Not what I was expecting.…

After a welcome beer on the beach at Townsville after arriving the next two days were spent at the CWA hall in central Townsville.

As always, one has to see “The Saint” a stick figure from the credits of the …

The last day of crossing Australia!

Last night’s camp was tucked awkwardly out of sight between the road and a barbed wire fence. Not much traffic but one ute was out spotlighting (night shooting with a high powered light) which …