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Photos: Two-Day Rides |
Two-Day Coral Sea Coast,
Cairns Highlands & Outback
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Two-Day Coral Sea Coast,
Daintree Rainforest,
Cape Tribulation & Cairns Highlands Loop
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Photos from the Half-Day Cairns & Kuranda Rainforest Highlands |
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Lake Morris Road to Copperlode Dam takes the rider from
dense lowland rainforest to high cloud rainforest, encompassing
explosions of
tropical diversity at every turn
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Copperlode Dam, at the end of Lake Morris Road. Yes, there's always plenty of time
for Devonshire Teas
before the hard slog back down Lake Morris Road ;o)
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Bright shafts of sunlight pierce through the
rainforest canopy, illuminating hairpin bends
and making fern trees glow
bright green
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Over 2000 feet high on Lake Morris Road, amongst
wildly prolific growths of fern trees; iconic sentinels of
the cloud rainforest
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Lofty views from Lake Morris Road of dense
rainforest, Cairns, The Coral Sea
and the wild Yarrabah Peninsula |
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Photos from the Full-day Northern Loop Ride |
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Skirting the Coral Sea at Rex Lookout,
amid heavy Tropical North Queensland traffic ... |
A trio of Japanese riders exalt at the crest of the lushly rainforested Rex Range, between Port Douglas and Mossman
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 Rex Lookout, on the Captain Cook Highway -
overlooking The Coral Sea
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Cruising, Harley CVO-style, at Palm Cove |
Pausing to look on agog at the feast of natural
beauty that is the Mossman River
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Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas
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It's official - ladies like power, and when it
comes equipped with an easily manageable
seat height, all the better ... enter the Honda CB1300
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Aprilia-mounted New Jerseyans Nigel and Chris - perfectly
ebullient
after cresting the gloriously twisty Rex Range, inland
from Port Douglas |
Jay does a much better job of blending into the
surroundings than the Aprilia Tuono.
Four Mile Beach
lookout, Port Douglas.
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Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas
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Looking across Dickson Inlet, Port Douglas, to the
richly rainforested mountains of the Lamb Range
in the World Heritage listed Daintree
Rainforest National Park
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The snorkelling is cool, calm and clear in the Mossman River - with sights such as sawshell turtles, +6ft long green spotted eels and an entourage of freshwater fish.
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Try as they might, they just couldn't pull themselves
away from that silky-smooth Mossman River ...
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More snorkelling antics in the cool Mossman River
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Just north of Mossman and into the heart of the Daintree.
Yippee!
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A swim - or a bask beside the river's banks - is a must
at Mossman River |
Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas
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Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas
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Classic Outback gum trees and termite mounds on the Kennedy Highway between Mount Molloy and Mareeba
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Ina from Germany just can't put that Aprilia Pegaso Strada Down! Top of the Rex Range, overlooking Cape Tribulation
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Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas
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The National Hotel at Mount Molloy -
a real fair dinkum Aussie bush pub |
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Photos from the Full-day Southern Loop Ride |
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Ascending the Gillies Highway - to a motorcycling natural high |
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Riding the 258 turns of the Gillies Highway -
a supremely scenic and involving experience
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Another rotten riding day, miserable at the prospect
of yet another round of muggacinos - this time
beside the maddeningly pure and clear crater lake that is Barrine. Pass the scones, would you chaps? |
The Mountainview Hotel, on the Gillies Highway: a biker's institution and in days of yore, the default 'bottom gate' where weary travellers waited for their turn to go up the mountain road ahead |
Heales Lookout, the Gillies Highway |
A brace of Aprilia riders enjoying the view from
Heale's Lookout, on the Gillies Highway |
The old Gillies Highway Time Table - was used from 1927 to
1959 to regulate the flow of traffic up and down the narrow
and twisty range road. The old goat track had over
600 narrow and precipitous turns, whereas The Gillies
Highway today is a phenomenally scenic, involving
(and, may I say, civilised) ride of 258 turns
over 19km (12 miles). Rejoice! |
Entering the cloud rainforest - a natural high
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The Aprilia Tuono, just doing what comes naturally! |
The BMW R 1200 ST, taking a breather
halfway down the Gillies Highway |
Entering the cloud rainforest - a natural high
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Pure hedonism: When not riding or eating or drinking,
Riders may be found frolicking in places like Lake
Eacham, an ancient crater lake |
Scratching the sweepers of the Millaa Millaa Waterfall Circuit |
Just pootling along, through the gingerbread-cute
Cairns Highlands town of Kairi |
The Moto Guzzi Breva V1100 -
catching the breeze |
Descending the serpentine Gillies
Highway on the red-hot Aprilia Tuono |
Boys will be boys ... Hugh admires the scary factor of a seriously spiky rotan vine at Lake Barrine, Cairns Highlands |
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Photos from the Full-Day Coral Sea Coast,
Daintree Rainforest & Cape Tribulation Ride |
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The road to Cape Trib passes almost directly underneath rainforest smothered mountains
that soar directly up from sea level to over 4500ft; as here at Thornton Peak
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Misc Pics
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Mt. Stuart, near Townsville -
a scratcher's paradise. Enjoy!
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Enjoying a sunset at Undara Volcanic Park
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