It was raining on Saturday Morning, so we decided to keep driving west until the rain stopped.
We drove for almost six hours and ended up in Leyburn, west of Warwick, on the Southern Downs.
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Category: Queensland
Global Fat Bike Day 2015
Fat Bikes are fun. Global Fat Bike Day (#GFBD2015) is an opportunity for people around the world to celebrate that fun. In this part of the world, we decided to start our Fat Bike party at Coolum.
Scenic Rim XC Adventure
We’ve seen some stunning sights in the Scenic Rim over the last couple of years, and wanted to bring more of our friends here. There is too much to see in one day, so we spent a whole weekend exploring this wonderful place.
Cavemen
Plunkett Regional Park is a magnificent nature reserve near Beenleigh, boasting rocky outcrops, caves, rare plants and animals, and kilometres of challenging trails. Aaron has spent hundreds of hours exploring the park, and kindly offered to show us around.
Kilkivan
The Bicentennial National Trail (BNT) passes right through the middle of Kilkivan, west of Gympie. This delightful small town was the perfect place for us to start today’s adventure.
Belhaven
“Belhaven” is a 150 hectare cattle property that sits atop the Little Liverpool Range at Tallegalla west of Ipswich. When the landowners generously allowed us to explore their property, we jumped at the opportunity.
Coochin Creek
Coochin Creek has always been a forest. The plains that stretch eastwards from the Glasshouse Mountains to the Bribie Passage were once covered with vast tracts of She-Oaks, Paperbarks and Gum Trees. Today it’s still a forest, but most of the trees have been replaced with plantation pines.
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Carneys Creek
In 1859, hopeful gold miners once trekked through this area on their way to the diggings at Tooloom on the Clarence River. Today we thought we’d retrace some of their journey.
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