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Component around Lake Eacham and Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha

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Recorded distance
199 km
Riding-time estimate
5 h 13
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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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Why this ride

199 km from Yungaburra to Yungaburra, about 5 h 13 of riding. On the way it passes Main component, Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha and back through Main component. It strings together lakeside roads.

Scenic road chapters

Component around Lake Eacham → Main component

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 23 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.

Chapter facts
Length
52 km

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Component around Lake Eacham

    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.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Component around Lake Eacham is where the day begins. Next is Main component.

  2. 2. Main component

    Inland from the cane fields south of Cairns, the land rears up into a wall of rainforest so dense that the ridgelines seem to steam after every shower. Gordonvale lies about fourteen kilometres to the north, Babinda a little further south, and the tableland town of Yungaburra up over the range to the west.

    Read the complete Main component write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Main component comes up about 52 km into the recorded legs. Next is Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha.

  3. 3. 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.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    about 97 km into the recorded legs you reach Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha. Next is back through Main component.

  4. 4. back through Main component

    Return visit. Read the place description above.

    Read the complete Main component write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    back through Main component, late in the day. Next is Component around Lake Eacham.

  5. 5. Component around Lake Eacham

    Return visit. Read the place description above.

    Read the complete Component around Lake Eacham write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Back at Component around Lake Eacham. That is the ride.

Leg by leg

Component around Lake Eacham to Main component

Component around Lake Eacham → Main component is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

Main component to Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha

Main component → Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha to back through Main component

Component around Malbon Thompson and Graha → back through Main component is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

back through Main component to Component around Lake Eacham

back through Main component → Component around Lake Eacham is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.

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