CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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The stops in between: Mt Seaview Nature Reserve, Willi Willi NP, Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve and back through Willi Willi NP. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Barrington Tops is the high, cold, wet plateau at the top of the Hunter and Manning catchments in New South Wales, and it feels like a different continent from the dry coast an hour to the east. The range is a remnant of an ancient volcanic landscape, and its altitude, well over a thousand metres on the plateau, means snow gums, frost in winter and the odd dusting of snow. It is part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area, and the forests here hold Antarctic beech, a tree that was once spread across the ancient southern supercontinent and now survives only in a few cold, damp pockets.
Read the complete Barrington Tops National Park write-up.
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Barrington Tops National Park is where the day begins. Next is Mt Seaview Nature Reserve.
Mount Seaview is a high point on the edge of the tableland where the New South Wales Northern Tablelands begin to drop toward the Pacific, and the nature reserve there protects a patch of forest that gets more rain and mist than almost anywhere around. The land is rugged, with steep slopes and tangled gullies, and the vegetation is a blend of dry eucalypt forest on the ridges and cool rainforest in the damp folds. This is the Hastings Range, the eastern flank of the Great Dividing Range, and the forests belong to the larger Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, whose lineage reaches back to the time when the continent was part of a great southern landmass.
Read the complete Mt Seaview Nature Reserve write-up.
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Mt Seaview Nature Reserve comes up 70 km in. Next is Willi Willi NP.
The coast of northern New South Wales is famous for beaches, but a few hours inland the land climbs into a different world of ridges, gorges and old rainforest. Willi Willi National Park lies in the hills behind Kempsey and Port Macquarie, in country that belongs to the Dunghutti people, and it protects a patch of that wilder landscape. The region is part of the broad belt of rainforest and wet eucalypt forest that runs up the Great Dividing Range, the remnants of an ancient forest that once covered the supercontinent of Gondwana.
Read the complete Willi Willi NP write-up.
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140 km in you reach Willi Willi NP. Next is Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve.
Werrikimbe National Park lies on the rim of the Great Escarpment in northern New South Wales, about a hundred kilometres inland from Port Macquarie, and it belongs to the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage area that preserves remnants of the forests that covered the ancient supercontinent. The landscape is high and wet, a plateau of eucalypt forest, tree ferns, swamp and cliffs where rivers begin their descent to the coast. Fenwicks Scrub is a small patch of this vegetation, a pocket of rainforest in the folds of the hills.
Read the complete Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve write-up.
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Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve, about halfway. Next is back through Willi Willi NP.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Willi Willi NP write-up.
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back through Willi Willi NP sits at 280 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mt Seaview Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mt Seaview Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mt Seaview Nature Reserve comes up 350 km in. Next is Barrington Tops National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barrington Tops National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Barrington Tops National Park closes the day.
Barrington Tops National Park → Mt Seaview Nature Reserve is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mt Seaview Nature Reserve → Willi Willi NP is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Willi Willi NP → Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fenwicks Scrub Flora Reserve → back through Willi Willi NP is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Willi Willi NP → back through Mt Seaview Nature Reserve is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mt Seaview Nature Reserve → Barrington Tops National Park is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.