I’m back in Melbourne for a couple of weeks for my daughter Grace’s 21st birthday party, to visit my mother and […]
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Cycle Touring Australia and Beyond
I love bicycle touring and have ridden from Melbourne to Darwin, Melbourne to Adelaide, Melbourne to Cooktown, Pert to Melbourne and toured around Victoria and Tasmania. In 2015 I rode around the world! In 2017 6000kms half way around Australia then another 4000kms Helsinki to Athens via Scandinavia. Where to next?
Cooktown and the Atherton Tablelands
We camped on the Daintree River and took in those sweet-smelling glorious rainforest aromas. The bitumen ends here, there was […]
Mission Beach to Cairns, Kuranda to Daintree Village.
For pure enjoyment and diversity, today was perhaps the best day cycling I have ever had. Sweeping vistas on the […]
Ingham to Mission Beach: Cane, Crocs and Cassowary’s
After setting up camp in Ingham I enjoyed a lazy afternoon as groups of small pale blue-faced peaceful doves […]
Townsville to Ingham 115 kilometres
Carlos the professional African drummer from Sierra Leone was on a circuit of primary schools and child care centres across […]
Ayr to Townsville 85 kilometres
A gloved fist waved above my head in a helicopter fashion was sufficient to ward off today’s early morning magpie […]
Bowen to Ayr 115 kilometres
Camping in the Bowen Caravan Park last night, the tropical green stinging ants took a particular liking to Therese. The […]
Mackay to Proserpine 125 kilometres.
As the author Somerset Maugham said, “It was that time of the day when the fishermen who know the fish […]
Port Wakefield to Adelaide 100 kms
Port Wakefield to Adelaide 100 km Perth to Adelaide via the South West Coast 2,800 km Melbourne to MacKay 2,400 […]
Wallaroo to Port Wakefield
Wallaroo is an unreconstructed seaside port. It’s certainly not gentrified. Some roadwork is being done but the roads around town […]
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