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 …
Day 80 30 June Townsville! and the Pacific Ocean!
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 …
Day 79 29 June Charters Towers to the Hervey Range
A very relaxed morning.
On the bike about 10am and tootle off northward on the Gregory Highway aiming for the Hervey Range road. I reckoned this would be a more peaceful if slightly longer road to Townsville than the main …
Day 78 28 June to Charters Towers
Just a blast along the Gregory Highway to Charters Towers – the rocky ‘towers’ of weathered granite were interesting but not enough to make you want to live there.
Charters Towers is a nice town with lots of buildings left …
Day 77 27 June Yarrowmere to the Gregory Highway
Soon after getting going I was overtaken by a local grazier taking his daughters out for a driving lesson in the farm ute.
Nice chap. I asked if the dying trees around were the result of poisoning with Graslan herbicide …
Day 76 26 June Lake Galilee to Yarrowmere
Not much to say about this section.
Just more gravel road, neither particularly rutted or sandy or good or bad. Just there.
Bede Station looked beautiful on the edge of a large lagoon, all the fences in good nick and …
Day 75 25 June Aramac and Lake Galilee
A pleasant night camped in the gidgee a few kilometres east of Aramac, another town being left behind as activity concentrates on the larger centres of Longreach, Barcaldine and Winton on the Landsborough Highway further south.
Aramac is a lovely …
Day 74 24 June The Kensington Hill and a Muttaburrasaurus
A much easier ride today as the road was more trafficked and therefore more packed down and smoother, generally.
The locals here practice being hard to surprise – a couple out checking their stock passed me mid-morning with just a …
Day 73 23 June On my way again
A languid breakfast with many cups of coffee and lots of chatter before loading up the bike once more.
Left Drumlion mid-morning to take the old mail road (known as the Cullardar Road from this end but as the Beryl …
Day 68 to Day 72 18 – 22 June 2016 Rest and Recovery at Drumlion
A very welcome week of rest and eating while enjoying my the company of my brother Peter and sister in law Noni at ‘Drumlion’.
I arrived weighing 72 kg (159 pounds) and left five days later at 77 kg (170 …