CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Tallebudgera Valley it runs 663 km to Tallebudgera Valley; allow about 12 h 25 of riding. It goes by way of Nightcap National Park, Limpinwood Nature Reserve, Border Ranges National Park and Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
On the New South Wales side of the border range above the Gold Coast hinterland, the land rises into steep, forested ridges that are the eroded rim of the ancient Tweed Volcano. Numinbah Nature Reserve protects a slice of this country, a jumble of rainforest gullies, eucalypt slopes and rocky outcrops, looking south across the great green bowl of the Tweed valley towards the sharp peak of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning.
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Numinbah Nature Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Nightcap National Park.
Nightcap National Park covers a high, wet plateau and escarpment north of Lismore in New South Wales, the remains of the rim of an ancient volcano centred on Wollumbin, Mount Warning, whose eroded caldera forms one of the largest in the world. The plateau receives some of the highest rainfall in the state, and it is covered in subtropical rainforest, tall eucalypt forest and dramatic waterfalls, including Minyon Falls, which drops about a hundred metres over a cliff of volcanic rock. Nightcap is one of the Gondwana Rainforests reserves, and in 2000 it made headlines when scientists found a previously unknown tree, the Nightcap oak, surviving in only a few small populations here.
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Nightcap National Park comes up 40 km in. Next is Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
Twenty-odd million years ago, a huge shield volcano stood where the Tweed valley is now, on what became the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Erosion has since carved out its centre, leaving one of the largest erosion calderas in the world, a vast bowl of green farmland ringed by cliffs and ridges, with the volcano's old central plug, Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, standing in the middle. Limpinwood Nature Reserve, on the northern rim of the caldera, protects a stretch of subtropical rainforest that is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving forests whose lineage goes back to the ancient supercontinent.
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80 km in you reach Limpinwood Nature Reserve. Next is Border Ranges National Park.
Twenty three million years ago a huge shield volcano stood over what is now the border between New South Wales and Queensland, and the Border Ranges are the remains of its northern and western rim. The volcano has long since eroded, leaving a vast caldera with the steep central plug of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, rising in the middle, and a ring of cliffs and ridges around it covered in dense subtropical rainforest. The Border Ranges National Park protects a large part of that rim, and it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage Site that preserves forests whose ancestry goes back to the time when Australia was part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
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Border Ranges National Park, about halfway. Next is Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve.
Nothofagus is the botanical name of the southern beech, and the name of this reserve gives away its treasure: stands of Antarctic beech growing high on the McPherson Range along the Queensland–New South Wales border. These gnarled, moss-covered trees, some of them centuries old and sprouting from root systems far older still, are living relics of the forests that covered Gondwana before Australia drifted away from Antarctica.
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Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve sits at 161 km, about halfway. Next is back through Border Ranges National Park.
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back through Border Ranges National Park comes up 201 km in. Next is back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
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241 km in you reach back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve. Next is back through Nightcap National Park.
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back through Nightcap National Park, late in the day. Next is Numinbah Nature Reserve.
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Read the complete Numinbah Nature Reserve write-up.
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The route ends here after 663 km.
Numinbah Nature Reserve → Nightcap National Park is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nightcap National Park → Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limpinwood Nature Reserve → Border Ranges National Park is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Border Ranges National Park → Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve → back through Border Ranges National Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Border Ranges National Park → back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve → back through Nightcap National Park is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nightcap National Park → Numinbah Nature Reserve is 45 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.