Reef to the Red Centre

 

Day 1: Your Cairns airport transfer will take you directly to our joining hotel, ready for an early start tomorrow. Today you will meet your crew for your tour briefing and welcome dinner.
Day 2: We ride the wonderful twisties of the Gilles Range as we ascend onto the fertile Atherton Tablelands. We cross the Herberton Range and ride onto the geological phenomenon of the Undara Lava Tubes.
Day 3 & 4:After a guided tour of the lava tubes we continue on and cross the remote, rarely visited Rope Walk Ranges onto the spectacular Cobold Gorge. We spend two nights here allowing us to spend 3 hours cruising this stunning gorge and riding around this superb Gulf Savannah location.
Day 5:Another remote riding day as we cross through a vast empty landscape known as the Savannah, before arriving at the prawn capital of Australia, Karumba, on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Day 6:Leaving Karumba behind we hit the dirt after Normanton.The ride continues from bore, (waterholes) to bore through a landscape of termite mounds and golden Savannah. We see the day out at the tiny outback community of Gregory Downs!!
Day 7:We cross the Gregory River, lined with palms and ferns, on our way to the UNESCO listed Riversleigh Fossil site. The afternoon is spent canoeing at the incredibly spectacular Lawn Hill Gorge before overnighting in the wonderful community of Adel's Grove
Day 8:We ride south today, initially on dirt, through a golden landscape of spinifex and ancient escarpments before reaching the quintessential "Aussie" outback town of Mt Isa
Day 9:Leaving “the Isa” behind we enter “Channel Country, named for the myriad of channels crisscrossing the landscape and a tough remote sparsely populated south-western corner of Queensland.
Day 10:The ride veers west today as we hit the dirt of the legendary outback track known as the Donahue Highway. The track travels through a spare landscape dotted with giant termite mounds and crosses into the NT before our overnight camp at the 6000 square kilometer Tobermorey Station.
Day 11:View spectacular desert scenery as we ride through some of the most remote country in the world! Crossing from Queensland into the Northern Territory we continue onto the wonderfully remote Jervois Homestead, our overnight stop.
Day 12:After a number of days riding across an impossibly vast & open “big sky” landscape we will be surprised to see the Harts Mountain Range loom into view. It isn’t long before we hit the pavement and reach Alice Springs for a good earned beverage and to wash off the layers of dust and celebrate the end of our epic ride from the Barrier Reef to the red centre of Australia.
Departure day: Spend some time in Alice Springs or fly home, the choice is yours.