Australian Travel Adventures, Queensland Road Trips & Motorcycle Stories

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

Wednesday began quietly, with my dirty clothes pile reminding me that I’d been away for a week so it was time to put a wash on. No problem with getting it dry afterwards. We were due to go to Charles and Debs later, as it was their turn to host ‘Wine Wednesday’, where a few neighbours take turns to host an evening get-together with drink and nibbles, so I fired up the Honda and headed for Port Douglas to see what I could find to take. The first thing I discovered, before any