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    Trinity Beach with Bec

    20. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Trinity Beach - catching up with Bec, whom I haven’t seen for 5 years. Leaving the van at Lake Placid stayed with Bec at her lovely tropical apartment, just back from the beach. A fantastic night catching up on all her adventures, trials and tribulations, including her work as a podiatrist in the outback. Hope to catch up with her in WA.Les mer

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    Cooper Creek Walking Tours

    26. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ 🌧 22 °C

    A most sensational morning with a scientist who has spent 30 years in the Daintree.
    Stories of the forest development, evolution and sadly some of its recent decline and some mismanagement. Fun facts aplenty, like the treatment for AIDS coming out of the bean of one of these forest trees.
    Stories also of the indigenous usage of the forest and how their removal has created an imbalance in the forest ecology.
    We know that pigs are not a friend of the forest, but they also attract protection under the World Heritage umbrella.

    https://shop.minibeastwildlife.com.au/content/M…    Les mer

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    First off-road river crossing

    27. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    Bloomfield Track. Or to use it’s least romantic name: Daintree-Bloomfield Road.

    We left Cape Tribulation on lovely bitumen, which soon turned to gravel. We were passed by a few big off-road motorbikes before being stopped by a traffic jam of them. They were all queued to cross a creek.
    My initial plan was to let them all go, so I wouldn’t have too many spectators if I were to get myself stuck (this being my first off-Road river crossing with the van. Then it occurred to me, it would only take a few beers to have all these big tough bikies help push me out. Away we’re went and sailed through. There were several other crossings but this was the widest.
    The most alarming sections were the really steep climbs.
    The steepest was 31% but there were a few at 21-27% and one of those was clay. Everything in the forest is wet, so it was pretty slippery.    Les mer

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    Lions Den Hotel

    27. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    This place is like a caricature of a comic pub.
    But the beer was so good!
    It was favourably enhanced by being at the northern end of the Blomfield Track, a wild experience for us, with the most sketchy roads we have been on so far while towing the van.Les mer

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    Eddies Elim Beach Camp

    28. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Eddies Elim Beach Camp
    Great story here because Aboriginal people have had land returned to them and are making a real go of it.
    The fight is not over as they are now in “negotiations” with mining companies on the area who want to expand their sand mining leases. They process silica which is experiencing increased demand.
    That aside this location is fantastic. Wide level camping right on the Coral Sea. The amenities are basic but serviceable and the environment is beautiful.
    At low tide the beach is wide and flat. Just perfect for a long ride. The coloured sands are a remarkable feature. The only thing we found on Elim Beach is a hut set up with the camp ground owner. They established a Kit Surfing Safari (only access is via the beach)
    There are some great 4x4 tracks that access South Bedford Beach. Remote wind blown and beautiful. Sadly the beach has a lot of debris, mostly plastic, in the jetsam that washes in from the sea.
    Something must be done about this disaster. If this beach looks like this, imagine the state of The Reef and the sea floor. Who would be a fish?    Les mer

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    Mulligan Hwy - Cooktown to Mount Molloy

    29. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    My head is flipped again. The terrain and vegetation have change so quickly since we left Elim Beach.
    Soft looking rolling hills to about 550 meters and dense but small scrubby tree cover. The hills are steep and heavily eroded, but at the same time smooth and evenly covered.
    Then there is black mountain. The massive hills that are just huge piles of big (granite?) boulders. The black colour is lichen.
    Weird. I wonder how far down the boulders reach before you hit bedrock.    Les mer

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    Rifle Creek Rest area

    30. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    OK Platypus. I know you are in there.

    A free camp site (with a $2 donation requested). Toilets and cold showers, And away from the (quiet) main road there is plenty of opportunity to listen to the birds. As I type there is a Kookaburra gathering worms outside the van.Les mer

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    Pedaling Mt Molloy

    30. mai 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    On the Port Douglas hinterland.

    Little bike ride today from Mt Molloy through Julatten up a beautiful rolling valley. Overcast and a little rain which made it quite intimate. We went to a bird hide at Abattoir Swamp, but managed to see many more outside the reserve through Julatten and McLeans Bridge Road.
    Sacred Kingfisher (gorgeous bird)
    Masked Lapwing
    Bar Pigeon
    Red-Backed Fairy-Wren
    Silvereye
    Yellow Breasted Robin
    Many others ......
    And a number of common varieties (familiar to us southerners). (Heaps of Kookaburra, Lorikeets, Sulphur Crested Cockatoo ......
    One spectacular vivid green bodied, yellow winged beauty that I can’t yet identify.

    PS: photos of the birds are from a book.    Les mer

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    Danbulla National Park

    1. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Lovely Danbulla National Park. Planning on doing some long rail trail rides from here over the next 3 days. This is the first time we have had reception in a national park. My extremely clever fella has just installed the new inverter. Happy days. 😊Les mer

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    Curtain Fig Tree

    2. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    The Curtain Fig tree, only found here. Nearly lost to us forever to farming if not for the basalt in the ground, protecting the rainforest. A mighty tree who eats its host.
    Great ride around the little towns of Atherton through the farmlands. Yungaburra is a cute nearby town, reminds me of Bright.
    Also, one hell of a dam!
    ... and a better than average sunset from the campsite.

    Check out our ride on Strava.
    https://strava.app.link/HC1hffgXKgb    Les mer

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    Reconciliation and The Voice

    3. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    Relevant on Penguin travel, since we have been camping on Aboriginal ground on the Cape York peninsula, and the owners know Danny. So proud of my brother Danny in his role for supporting Aboriginal people in their fight for justice and a Voice to Parliament through bringing big business on board. A chance for us to start being reconciled as a nation. Time for us to face our past, take responsibility, listen to and respect the first Australians. Let’s move forward together.Les mer

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    Mulgrave River Valley3

    Atherton Tableland - continued

    3. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    Every day our level of surprise over the diversity and beauty is extended.

    The ride today went deep into the World Heritage Rainforest, and included a picnic lunch mid ride with our feet in a swiftly running Kauri Creek.

    The afternoon found us at Gillies Lookout and OMG. Stunning. The video shows the Mulgrave River valley. The village is Goldsborough, with Walsh’s Pyramid immediately behind it. The far side of the valley is erosion resistant granite and basalt. The cloud shrouded hills include the twin peaks of Bartle Frere (highest peak in Qld @ 1622m and the second highest Bellenden Ker @ 1292m. With Goldsborough sitting at 25m above sea level, it puts some perspective into the scale of this vista.

    Check out the size of Cathedral Fig. It grew over another giant forest tree which has long ago died and evacuated, leaving a hollow interior.

    Critter sightings- cute little Rat Kangaroos (two) Rose-crowned Fruit Dove (several). Pictures are not ours, as the blighters scamper before we can get our cameras out.

    Check out our ride up Kauri Creek Road on Strava.
    https://strava.app.link/nYdZaTXYMgb    Les mer

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    Innot Hot Springs

    5. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    For a soak in hot spring water. Various pools in the creek with temperatures ranging up to 75°C.
    Not sitting in that pool.

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    2No filters on the camera, and no light in the tube.
    Big, huh?Courtesy: savannah.com.au

    Undara Lava Tubes

    6. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Formed 190,000 years ago when Undara Volcano had a slow but extended eruption (months to a year - think milk boiling over, not a soda water bottle eruption). The lava flowed out at walking pace across and area of 1550 square kilometres with a spread of 160k in a NW direction.
    The slow moving lava cools across the top, but the flow below keeps moving cutting into the bedrock leaving a void above the flow. When the flow stops, the tunnel empties and the tube remains. Over time sections of the tube collapse, and have captured small pockets of ancient Remnant Dry Rainforest. (Lots of other stuff going on as well).
    The longest tube was just over 100km.

    We then walked the rim of Kalkani crater which was a different volcano that went boom.

    There were 164 volcanic centres in this region. This is a story of two. What an amazing country!

    Anyway - it was bloody incredible.

    There was no evidence of Aboriginal habitation in the caves. The last eruption was only 20,000 years ago, well within their period of occupation, so perhaps the stories handed down said “stay away”. European occupation resulted in an entire generation of children being removed, as well as widespread dislocation of families. There is just nobody left to share their stories..    Les mer

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    Oh wow

    7. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Oh wow. The expanse of woodland and view is stunning.
    We are West bound on the Savannah Way looking from the Newcastle Range towards Georgetown.
    You can’t smart phone, happy snap a view like this. It is vast. It is diverse. The trees are small, sparse, evenly dispersed, olive to dark on the orange soil, with hills rising steeply and curvaceous.Les mer

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    Whats in a Name

    7. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    Gilbert River free camp. We just had to stay here. John Gilbert was a naturalist who explored the Cape with Ludwig Leichhardt in the 1840s. They were possibly not so diplomatic when travelling through and had a major blew with the locals. Gilbert was killed during this fight and so the river was named after him.Les mer

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    Purple Pub - for State of Origin

    9. juni 2021, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    Normanton - Lots of people excited by the state of original sin up here, so just to get into the spirit, will fish out the blue gear and get down to the local. There is a rodeo here this weekend and befriended a young girl who is competing in the barrel races, so will be barracking for Anastasia. 😊Les mer

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