After staying in far North Queensland for way too long the best plan of attack was to get back to Brisbane before my ship sailed. But having cycled up the whole way I decided a different form of transport was to be taken back down. Part of the way anyway. This is where Adrian came…
And when I got there, I figured, since I’ve gone this far, I might as well turn right around, just keep on going… -Forest Gump- I only made it 200km down from the Tip of Cape York when Rick passed me and asked if I needed a lift. I didn’t need one. But I didn’t mind…
Where my road met the Peninsula developmental Road the track became a little less funny. I found that a lot of people heading North on this large and long dirt track ride with a ‘highway mentality“, as I call it. It means people are in a hurry to get somewhere, the top of Australia in…
I managed to meet up with Cleve at the Bowen River Rodeo. He plays a good tune on the squeezebox. It made for a few great nights in the historic Bowen River Hotel. 8km before the Bowen River Hotel, Strathmore homestead lies on the left hand side. It was there I first called in and was…
If you have to take a shower, you might as well share it. With 100 frogs. You never know I figured. No luck so far. But there’s many more to go. And I have to admit, I rather be kept company by these little creatures where the most dangerous side-effect might be a salmonella-infection, than…
You can’t accuse me of being fast. Never have been. Never will be. But after two years skimming around the edges and occasionaly fluttering inland I’ve finally managed to cross this country East to West. Yay! This brings my grand total to about 50.000km. Not that I’m counting… The last 2000km I’ve been cycling with Stuart and…
Stuart got out of hospital after 5 days. He wasn’t quiet ready to leave and the doctor had forbidden him to start riding immediately. So we waited a day. The very surprising diagnosis was swine flu! Even though we haven’t once spotted a swine along the way. We did however spot a few flies. Stu is…
