Day 17 – Sun, 18 Jul to Gordonvale

Last night we had a night on the town at Port. We had a great meal, bottle of wine and finished off with a waffle cone – decadent. So this morning was a slow rise and as we were only going to do a bit of local riding this seemed appropriate.

So we headed N then NW over to Mt Molloy for some more twists and turns and then S to Mareeba for morning tea. Being Sunday a few more bikes were on the road as well as the boys in blue in conveniently located spots.

This weekend Mareeba also had their annual rodeo so the town was setup as you would expect, for the anticipated followers.

We then rode further along to Atherton and then onto Milandra Falls. We were endeavouring to re-ride the Millaa Millaa road back to Ravenshoe but the rain closed in again so we may not see this part of the tablelands. We turned around and punished ourselves again by riding down the Gillies Hwy across the Gillies Range back to Gordonvale where we are camping in a free campsite for the night.

The ride down the range was brilliant although most of it was in the wet. Taking it slower did not diminish the fabulous curves and views – in fact gave us time to see the views.

Tonight the rain has closed in on us once again so it is going to be an early night. My man riding shotgun, Rod has only a couple days left before he heads south – I think he would be rather heading west with me.

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