Holy crap, I only made it to Bridle Creek, about ½ way to Mareeba, which was the intent. But it was a lot of pushing uphill with slopes of up to 25%. By 2pm I reached Bridle Creek and decided against going further. The day started at 20º, high humidity, so sweating like a pig (do pigs sweat so much?), and it was 35º by the time I called it quits.

Also there were numerous locked gates where I had to unhitch BOB and take off heavy water bottles to be able to lift bike and BOB over. Very slow going indeed, and of course I am nowhere nearly in shape yet!

I have so far been able to avoid these innocent looking strings. I believe they are called Lawyer Vine, they just won’t let go, and can quickly rip your clothing and skin to shreds.

Total kms today: 14. Uphill pushing is a bit of a guess because my bicycle computer only shows 250m, while the highest point was already 300m above my starting elevation. Plus all the downs and ups I reckon it might me more like 600-700m. Doesn’t sound like much, but it was very hard work.