Saturday, September 27, 2008

Day - not sure - but we're in Cairns


Welll it's been almost a week, since we've been close to anything that vaguely resembles the internet.
Saturday
We left Mullum last Saturday morning and heade upto Imbil, inland from Noosa.
Great ride through the Glass house mountains - Maleny and Kenilworth and to Imbil for our first nights camping. Poured with rain first night - Woke up next morning to find that Geoff's tent had leaked and he'd spent half of the night with the bottom part of his sleeping bag in a garbage bag to further waterproof his tent.
Sunday we headed north to Cania Gorge near Monto. Temperature really starting to warm up nicely. Great ride from outside Gympie to Kenilvan for a surprisingly good cappucino and lunch at Gayndah in a classic old Queensland pub. Great riding afterwards, no traffic, 120 - 130kph average, starting to get afeel for the country now.
Arrived at a lovely campsite in Cania Gorge, brim full of grey nomads.
Monday.....QLD beautiful one day...Awoke to another gorgeous morning, fast ride to Biloela and stopped for what was advertised as hot coffee. Hot was the only thing it was.
Again having taken the back roads hardly any traffic and most of the day was spent riding by ourselves.
Saw a classic caravan slogan on one of the grey nomads..."Adventure before Dementia " ...fair shout I'd say.
Some of the roads reminded me of pictures of Utah with the road stretching off straight out into the horizon. After the first week of great twisty roads, almost forgotten what a corner was !
Geoff has started the macabre sport of photographing the different types of road kill...I think we're currently up to six, with a wild boar being the most prized.
Arrived at Carnarvon gorge about 4 and immediately befriended by some very friendly nomads, firstly offering ice for six pack we'd picked up in Rolleston and then offered an Esky too.
Had our now familiar dinner of 2 minute noodles....

Ahh !! Manuana now...eyes getting tired..more episodes tomorrow

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