Queensland Ride for Sick Kids

After a good night’s sleep we awoke to a chilly overcast morning. We headed off dreading the thoughts of more hills toady.  Fortunate there wasn’t too many as the group sped along the Gilly’s Highway to Cairns. After a full day of climbing the range yesterday it was about time we got to spend time coming down and the group enjoyed 20km of winding downhill often hitting 60kmph. This time it wasn’t the bikes holding up traffic, with the leading group out pacing the cars down the windy stretch of road.

The group did it tough on the Palmerston Highway climb to Millaa Millaa; there were light showers as we climbed thru the clouds. Often the visibility reduced to 50 m which on occasion was a good thing because we couldn’t see the top of the hills in front of us. We regrouped at the Millaa Millaa pub and had some lunch. As we started the final leg to Atherton the fog was so heavy we couldn’t see 10m in front of us and decided to stay together until it cleared. As we closed in on Atherton we finally had some flats and then after a long climb into town we raced downhill thru Atherton to McDonald’s. Thanks JB for shouting us a late lunch.