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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A 545 km round trip from Innisfail Estate - roughly 9 h 38 in the saddle. The stops in between: Main component, Component around Edmund Kennedy and back through Main component. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Main component comes up about 103 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 272 km into the recorded legs you reach Component around Edmund Kennedy. Next is back through Main component.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Main component write-up.
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back through Main component, late in the day. Next is Component around Moresby Range.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Moresby Range write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Component around Moresby Range. That is the ride.
Component around Moresby Range → Main component is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Main component → Component around Edmund Kennedy is 169 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Component around Edmund Kennedy → back through Main component is 170 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Main component → Component around Moresby Range is 102 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.