Yes, yippee yahoo we have achieved our little adventure and I’m sure it’s only the start of a lifetime more. Here we are at the finish line after a bacon & egg breaky.

Yep we are deffinately getting strong, the last time over the great divide there was no pushing just riding. We’ll see you tomorrow all the best Muz!!! Make sure you watch the NEWS.

The last five days we hooked along on our alloy machines, with only Terry to keep me company made our sleeping bag warmer at night. No I mean um…. ? Ok We turned seven days riding into five. It was mostly flat meaning there were no ranges but gradually climbing all the way, in the end of the day means pain.
We’ve change our tatics a little bit, starting early with jackets, gloves and leggings then settle in for breaky a few hours latter. Dingos have been serinadeing us within a hundred meters, emus, boars and black cockatoos to add to the litter.
After a sweet 45k’s we pulled in to the head of the Burdekin River, we meet Ted Lingard who had started from Cooktown the same day we left from Kilarney. He was packing two horses and a heap of gear. Sadly his pack horse laid down on him (had the shits and wouldn’t eat), which has ended his great adventure 4000k’s short. Terry and myself wish him all the best in his future adventures as the old saying goes “get back on your horse”
Since arriving early into Garnet, we are having our rest day and awaiting the arrival of the Cairns – Karumba bike riders to sink many ales and catch up with old acquaintances. One line Terry’s been hanging to use is “come back and tell us about it when you have a couple thousand k’s under your belt”.

Just been told they don’t start till next week “bugger”

Finally the last legs of our Journey, thanks for all your texts and emails in support, thee is no phone service (optus) here in Mount Garnet so I’ll read them when I get to Mareeba. If you’d like to welcome us into Cairns come to the Esplanade Lagoon near the rocks, we will be arriving at 3.30pm Thu the 26th.

• Tue 24th Irrvanbank
• Wed 25th Mareeba
• Thu 26th Mareeba – Cairns
• Fri 12.00pm Clohsey River Rd & Kennedy Hwy
• Sat 2.00pm Copperload Dam
• Sun 3.30pm Esplanade Lagoon

Any other regards we’ll be contactable the night of the 25th in Mareeba.
• Terry Montgomery 0435 156 210
• Muzza 0402 706 763

Holly sugar, we’re nearly home. The last five days have been pretty cruisy, mainly gravel roads not too many big climbs for Terry and myself but Paul has a few words to say about the friggen hills, “their steep and their nasty”.

Today once into Mingela I hitchhiked into Townsville to catch up with a few skydiving buddies, write this blog and buy food for the next weeks trip to Innot Hot Springs. While I’m here here’s one of me:

Paul has lost to the power of gravity twice, the first time he slipped out in the buldust going into a commando roll. The second I missed (darn I love a good crash), apparently Terry heard a mumble then crash. When he looked back a small atomic bomb worth of bulldust had formed where Paul laid. Terry ran over and asked “are you all right” with the reply “just leave me” Paul laid there for another five minutes gathering the meaning of the trail and why he was their. With only a few k’s to go we got into the Burdikin dam by 3.30 for a well deserved shower.

I’ve been asked to post a list of all the places we’ll be in the next two weeks, if your keen to catch for a day or more of riding.

• Fri 13th Strathbowen Hotel
• Sat 14th Burdekin Dam
• Sun 15th In the middle of know where
• Mon 16th Ravenwood
• Tue 17th Mingela
• Wed 18th Pall Mall Springs
• Thu 19th Granite Creek
• Fri 20th Douglas Camp
• Sat 21st Camel Creek Station
• Sun 22nd Somewhere along the Burdiken River
• Mon 23rd Minnamoolka Turnoff
• Tue 24th A rest day might be at Mt Garnet pub or the Springs
• Wed 25th Innot Hot Springs
• Thu 27th Montalbion Dam
• Fri 28th Mutchilba
• Sat 29th we’ll be riding the back roads to Copperload for a coffee then Cairns

All the dates are approximate due to unforeseen nature (pretty girls, wild rabbits or the occasional pub). Most days are 60km on average and are pretty tough going when towing a trailer or using panniers.

If you would like to contact us, our phones will be left on between 6.30-7.30pm hoping we have coverage. Otherwise we’ll see you on the road.

• Terry Montgomery 0435 156 210
• Muzza 0402 706 763

Wow wee, we’ve finally made it to Collinsville. It’s been quite a long haul but we are nearing the end with only 16 more days of fun. I will be posting a schedule tonight of our journey from Collinsville to Cairns, so feel free to join us. More tonight Muz!

I’ll try to write this one in the third person. Muzza & Terry gathered their gear from the Molbrough pub early, groveled their burgers from the cafe, they set sail by 11.30 . This trail led us several days through Ogmore past Saint Laurence to the Connors Range. The old telegraph line was our next challenge, being the second steepest range in Aus. We busted our balls for two hours pushing and wrestling our mules up the rocky accent, only to come to a beautiful camping site with stuff all water polluted with cow manure.

The next day found us on a gravel road steadily making our way towards Nebo, lunch arrived so we pulled in to a little bridge with the best water we seen since the start of the trip. Kevin (70) and nephew Harrie pulled up for a chat and before we new it they invited us around for a billy, only a mile up at Colaroy Station. This was great HCT sandwiches hot tea to mark half a day in the saddle. The day finished of with 80k’s of gravel road and a massive fire in creek line, we sipped our hot chocolate while our eyes gasped at the stars. Yes I know it’s all starting to sound a bit gay; but what happens out bush…

Ok the internet cafe closes soon, so I’ll see how much I can write or stab at the keys

Terry & I caught up with Dietmar and Jenny at the Nebo pub, our eye’s where hanging out of our heads from the previous four days bush. Some how we managed to collect 35$$s from some birds at the pub. Nebo is amaisingly a small town with lots of industry, I bought four days of supplies at the local store and only for 80 bucks, shit at this rate ANZ will be broke soon.