I feel let down, deflated but now I'm Pumped - 25th September 2012 A few km out of Atherton on our first day of exploring the bike was not handling well, the feeling you get when a tyre is going flat. My first suspicions was that it was the front tyre but a quick call to Trish on the intercom and a safe parking spot in a side street soon revealed that it was my back tyre. With 10psi still left in it I decided to ride back to camp to do the repairs rather than o...

Final Day at Cooktown then off to Atherton 23rd September We have another lovely walk planned, starting with the Botanical Gardens. The two old people with their hiking sticks always draw a few stares from the locals but at least we are out there walking. On the way we passed what must be the saddest little Circus we have ever seen. The dusty dirty "Big Top" was not much bigger than our tent ( slight exaggeration there but it was tiny ). The trucks were batt...