Category: 2017 Cairns Darwin

DAY 11 GEORGETOWN TO LITTLE RIVER

Up at 6 am to scavenge a free cooked breakfast with the charity riders. I took the opportunity to invite interested people to join us on the CTAWA ON YOUR BIKE ‘LOAVES AND FISHES …

DAY 10 EINSLEIGH TO GEORGETOWN

 

Out of bed hoping for flat but got increasingly hilly in second half. Got overtaken by the Cairns – Karumba charity bike ride on the last big hill. Ride organiser ‘Steve’ invited us to …

DAY 9 UNDARA TO EINSLEIGH RIVER

 

Up and at ‘em. 15 km upwind and seemingly uphill to the main road. Bruce lost his tail lights so turned back to find them at the last grid we’d crossed.  Rest rode …

DAY 8 UNDARRA RESORT AND LAVA TUBES TOUR

 

Bruce led the others through a ‘closed to cycles’ track to the Kondarri Crater after breakfast while I did laundry and recovered a bit.

Mid-morning they were back and after lunch …

DAY 7 JUNE 24 SUGARBAG YARDS TO UNDARA LAVA TUBES RESORT

 

On the way about 8:45 am. Long rolling hills to the Forty Mile scrub. Stopped there for lunch, rest and see if there was water at information bay …

DAY 6. 23 JUNE PINNACLE SPRINGS TO SUGARBAG TICK YARDS

 

Sore but able to keep Brian’s porridge down. Uneventful but rolling 59 km out to the Kennedy Highway 30 km west of Mt Garnet. Not many creeks had water …

Out of Chillagoe after throwing up breakfast. Real fast exhaustion related regurgitation!

30 km back to turn off south and start of dirt. Got slower and hillier as road started corrugations and drifting dust. All of us either fell off …

DAY 4 CHILLAGOE CAVES

 

I was very dehydrated yesterday and exhausted.

The effect was that I couldn’t hold my breakfast porridge down. Such a quick and powerful gag reflex!

 

Still on to the caves for a couple of …

DAY 3 DIMBULAH TO CHILLAGOE

 

Sore but otherwise ok.

Brian cooked breakfast before heading out over lower Hills to Petford.

 

Disappointed not to see the famous Petford Crossing where one of highest performing seed collection of Eucalyptus camaldulensis …

DAY 2 Kuranda to Dimbulah

 

Sort of recovered before 9 am depart.

 

Lots more rolling hills to Mareeba for lunch and shopping. Many more handlebar meditations with others politely waiting for me to cool down before getting to …

Day 1 18 JUNE Cairns to Kuranda

Summary – stuffed

Everyone enthusiastic packing and organising from unit at The Lakes Resort. Very pleasant 2 days thx AirBnB and Peter and Mende.

Left about 10am along Aeroglen Road which quickly turned …

Only eight full days to we set off.

Bruce has set up a blog just for this ride – check out stragglingstuetal.wordpress.com

My new Shimano SPD touring sandals have arrived from Wiggle. Now the fun of finding the right position …

Just the facts Mamm;

Riders – 4 to start, a fifth to join halfway

Distance – about 3000 km depending on which national parks we decide to see

Time – 8-10 weeks depending on how casually we ride

Road type …