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 Yungaburra it runs 380 km to Yungaburra; allow about 5 h 49 of riding. It goes by way of Component around Moresby Range, Component around Edmund Kennedy and back through Component around Moresby Range. It strings together lakeside roads.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 77 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Lake Eacham is a hole in the ground filled with water. About ten thousand years ago, magma met groundwater beneath the Atherton Tablelands and the ground blew apart in a steam explosion, leaving a deep, round crater that gradually filled with rain. Today it is a lake about sixty-five metres deep, ringed with rainforest and clear enough that you can see turtles in the shallows. It is part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, a World Heritage Area inscribed in 1988.
Read the complete Component around Lake Eacham write-up.
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Component around Lake Eacham is where the day begins. Next is Component around Moresby Range.
Innisfail had to rebuild itself after a cyclone flattened much of the town in 1918, and it chose to do so in the latest style. As a result, this sugar town on the Johnstone River has one of the finest collections of Art Deco buildings in Australia, with colourful façades, geometric patterns and elegant shopfronts lining the main streets. Just to the east, the Moresby Range runs down to the coast in a band of steep, rainforest-covered hills, part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage area, one of the oldest continuously surviving tropical rainforests on earth.
Read the complete Component around Moresby Range write-up.
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Component around Moresby Range comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Component around Edmund Kennedy write-up.
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about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach Component around Edmund Kennedy. Next is back through Component around Moresby Range.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Moresby Range write-up.
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back through Component around Moresby Range, late in the day. Next is Component around Lake Eacham.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Lake Eacham write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Component around Lake Eacham. That is the ride.
Component around Lake Eacham → Component around Moresby Range is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component around Moresby Range → Component around Edmund Kennedy is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component around Edmund Kennedy → back through Component around Moresby Range is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Component around Moresby Range → Component around Lake Eacham is 106 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.