Big ride yesterday - 65km return trip to the Ross River Dam. Now I appreciate why Townsville doesn't run out of water during the long dry season.
The bike path along the river is one of the best I've been on. It's paved, wide enough for 3 bikes most of the way and away from traffic. The weather was perfect - overcast and raining. And on the way back there's a perfectly placed pub for lunch with a spectacular view of the river and one of the weirs.
The wild life here is amazing. Yesterday we saw a Blue Winged Kookaburra, Rainbow Bee Eater, Rock Wallabies, a lost Galah sitting by the road and the two Jabiru who live in the wet lands in Townsville. They're huge black headed storks and we got to see them doing all their Jabiru things, one caught a huge fish, the other flew over head carrying a stick for their nest. They're big birds and walk in a funny kind of unhurried way.
It's a beautiful ride, and strangely we were the only people on the path most of the time.
Here's some pics
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