The Yimbun Tunnel, over a hundred years old, is a magnificent piece of old railway infrastructure on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail (BVRT) north of Toogoolawah. Today we decided to pay it a visit, and close some of the gaps in my ride map.
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Category: History
Ride For Life
Between them Darb and Russel aimed to ride almost two thousand kilometres in October to raise money to support Cancer Research. On the last day of October, I took a long ride with them to be there when they finally reached their goal.
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Deer Reserve
Deer Reserve is a rugged National Park and State Forest on the western shores of Lake Somerset near Kilcoy. Today we thought it would be fun to explore it.
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Poverty Creek
For my first time back on the bike since knee surgery last month, I decided to ride somewhere flat and relatively easy. Yes it was flat, but it was anything but easy
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Waterproof
When the alarm went off at 5:00 AM, I peeked through the curtains and discovered it was raining heavily.
“Bike or bed?” I sleepily asked myself.
Surprisingly quickly, I decided to “just show up” and see what happened.
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Rocky Hole
Today’s adventure took us to “Rocky Hole” – a delightful rock pool in D’Aguilar National Park.
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Mount Byron
The weather bureau predicted thunderstorms with 100% chance of rain. As rumbling dark clouds gathered in the early morning sky, there was only one thing to do: Just turn up!
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Colinton
“Can we do something a bit easier this weekend?”, Becca asked.
“Easy is fine”, I replied, “So long as it’s interesting :)”
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