After our “Big trip” across the gulf country of Northern Australia and to the tip of Cape York we managed to squeeze in a small trip around Northern Queensland. This trip had the luxury of hotel accommodation and two bikes. No camping equipment required.
Our ten day tour around Townsville Queensland on the Scrambler and 1260 around 2000km take or give a bit with detours.
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Our view of Darwin City flying out
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Shute Harbour near Airlie Beach QLD
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Sunset Bowen
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Lookout Break on the Ayr to Ravenswood Rd
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The Burdekin River Dam
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Quartz Rock near Ravenswood
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The Imperial Hotel Ravenswood
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Stepping back in time at the bar of the Imperial Hotel
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Ravenswood Historic Mining Town
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The Railway Hotel - Our accomodation for the night
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Charters Towers Stock Exchange 1888
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Taking a break along the Paluma Road
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Little Crystal Creek Bridge
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Seed pods Hidden Valley
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Found a platypus Hidden Valley
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A glimpse of the Great Barrier Reef as we flew back to Darwin
The original plan had been to commence riding south to Adelaide but continued sudden border closures dictated that we reconsider and ship the bikes to Adelaide if we wanted any opportunity to continue to travel by bike whilst we couldn’t sail. So in January 2021 the bikes were loaded and shipped to Adelaide to await our arrival.