CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From East Innisfail it runs 409 km to East Innisfail; allow about 6 h 49 of riding. The stops in between: Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha, Component around Hugh Nelson Range and back through Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 100 km this is Atherton Tablelands Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The Wet Tropics of Queensland are a long, narrow strip of rainforest between Townsville and Cooktown, and they hold the oldest continuously surviving tropical rainforest on earth, some of it unchanged for well over a hundred million years. The World Heritage listing, from 1988, covers not one block but a patchwork of national parks and other protected land, which is why the label calls this a component around Cowley. Here, the mountains run down almost to the sea, and on the flat, fertile coastal plain around Innisfail, sugar cane and banana plantations stand beside beaches, mangroves and remnants of forest.
Read the complete Component around Cowley write-up.
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Component around Cowley is where the day begins. Next is Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha.
South of Cairns, the coastal plain narrows between the sea and a wall of mountains that includes Bartle Frere, at 1,622 metres the highest peak in Queensland, and its neighbour Bellenden Ker. The ranges here are covered in dense rainforest, among the oldest on earth, and they form part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, listed by UNESCO in 1988.
Read the complete Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha write-up.
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Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha comes up about 100 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component around Hugh Nelson Range.
The Atherton Tableland is the bit of tropical Queensland that feels like it has wandered in from somewhere cooler. At seven or eight hundred metres above the sea, the plateau behind Cairns has red volcanic soil, dairy pastures, crater lakes and patches of rainforest that cling to the ridges.
Read the complete Component around Hugh Nelson Range write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 211 km into the recorded legs you reach Component around Hugh Nelson Range. Next is back through Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha, late in the day. Next is Component around Cowley.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Cowley write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Component around Cowley. That is the ride.
Component around Cowley → Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha is 100 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha → Component around Hugh Nelson Range is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component around Hugh Nelson Range → back through Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha → Component around Cowley is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.