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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
A 176 km round trip from Gordonvale - roughly 3 h 41 in the saddle. It goes by way of Component around Lake Barrine, Component around Hugh Nelson Range and back through Component around Lake Barrine. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 900 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 34 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Component around Lake Barrine.
Lake Barrine fills a volcanic crater on the Atherton Tablelands, a deep round lake fringed by dense rainforest, formed by a violent volcanic explosion many thousands of years ago when rising magma met groundwater. Its sister lake, Lake Eacham, lies a few kilometres away, and both are part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Site. The water is clear and deep, and the rainforest around it is home to some remarkable creatures: Lumholtz's tree kangaroos, musky rat-kangaroos, Boyd's forest dragons and many birds.
Read the complete Component around Lake Barrine write-up.
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Component around Lake Barrine comes up about 44 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.
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about 82 km into the recorded legs you reach Component around Hugh Nelson Range. Next is back through Component around Lake Barrine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Component around Lake Barrine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Component around Lake Barrine, late in the day. Next is Main component.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Main component write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Main component. That is the ride.
Main component → Component around Lake Barrine is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component around Lake Barrine → Component around Hugh Nelson Range is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Component around Hugh Nelson Range → back through Component around Lake Barrine is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Component around Lake Barrine → Main component is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.