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 Mission Beach it runs 430 km to Mission Beach; allow about 6 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Component around Edmund Kennedy, Component around Malaan and back through Component around Edmund Kennedy. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Kurrimine Beach is a sleepy stretch of sand and coconut palms on the coast of Far North Queensland, between Innisfail and Mission Beach, and it sits at the meeting point of two World Heritage sites. Behind it, the rainforest-covered hills belong to the Wet Tropics of Queensland, listed by UNESCO in 1988 for their ancient forests, which are among the oldest continuously surviving rainforests on earth. In front of it, the Great Barrier Reef stretches out to sea. At very low tides, King Reef, just offshore, is exposed and you can walk out across the reef flats, one of the few places where the reef comes so close to the mainland.
Read the complete Component around Kurrimine Beach write-up.
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Component around Kurrimine Beach is where the day begins. Next is Component around Edmund Kennedy.
North Queensland has the oldest rainforest on the planet, and it stands beside the Great Barrier Reef, with the two meeting in a few places where the trees come down to the sea. Edmund Kennedy National Park lies on the coast near Cardwell, between the Bruce Highway and the Coral Sea, and it protects a lowland strip of tropical rainforest, mangroves and swamps. It is named after the explorer Edmund Kennedy, who landed in the nearby Rockingham Bay in 1848 on an expedition to Cape York, and died after months of hardship, speared by Aboriginal men near the northern tip. Only three of his party of thirteen survived, thanks in part to Jackey Jackey, an Aboriginal guide who stayed with him.
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Component around Edmund Kennedy comes up about 65 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component around Malaan.
Up on the Atherton Tableland, behind Cairns in far north Queensland, the land rises from the hot coastal plain to a cooler plateau of volcanic soil, rolling farmland and patches of dense rainforest. Near Ravenshoe, which claims to be the highest town in Queensland, the forest around Malaan is one of the components of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage site, a long strip of tropical rainforest along the coast and the Great Dividing Range that contains some of the oldest continuously surviving rainforest on Earth. The forests are home to tree kangaroos, possums, rare frogs and birds, and, in the lowlands, the cassowary, a large flightless bird with a bony crest that is best admired from a distance.
Read the complete Component around Malaan write-up.
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about 213 km into the recorded legs you reach Component around Malaan. Next is back through Component around Edmund Kennedy.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Edmund Kennedy write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Component around Edmund Kennedy, late in the day. Next is Component around Kurrimine Beach.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Kurrimine Beach write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Component around Kurrimine Beach. That is the ride.
Component around Kurrimine Beach → Component around Edmund Kennedy is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component around Edmund Kennedy → Component around Malaan is 148 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component around Malaan → back through Component around Edmund Kennedy is 151 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Component around Edmund Kennedy → Component around Kurrimine Beach is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.