Australian Travel Adventures, Queensland Road Trips & Motorcycle Stories

On Monday Conor’s Ranger was picked up to be taken to Cairns. After we’d stopped one diesel leak it highlighted another smaller one, and as these things only ever get worse it’s gone to have the injectors replaced. That leaves us with Kerry’s car and 2 bikes, so although any camping is off the table for the moment, we’ll manage day to day. After breakfast and a bit of housekeeping – ironing, tidying up my beard – I first checked they were in, and then went round to Andrew and

Three short videos that Conor took on Saturday showing me riding the bike through vastly different scenery on our trip to the markets and back. Mareeba, our destination, is in the Atherton Tablelands, a massive food-producing region with nearly 2,000 farms growing bananas, mangoes, avocados, corn, citrus, and macadamia nuts, and also renowned for coffee plantations (such as Skybury in Mareeba) and local distilleries. I haven't visited a coffee plantation yet... We started ri

Mareeba Market On Thursday I fitted my camera mount and Beeline to the Honda and hoped to check them both out before we headed to the market in Mareeba on Saturday. I was after some good footage and a record of the route to share later. On Friday I checked the camera and Beeline out when I went to fuel the Honda up, and both appeared to be working well. However I didn’t check available free space on the camera memory card, and ran out on the way to Mareeba. I was also unab