Australian Travel Adventures, Queensland Road Trips & Motorcycle Stories

Mareeba Market On Thursday I fitted my camera mount and Beeline to the Honda and hoped to check them both out before we headed to the market in Mareeba on Saturday. I was after some good footage and a record of the route to share later. On Friday I checked the camera and Beeline out when I went to fuel the Honda up, and both appeared to be working well. However I didn’t check available free space on the camera memory card, and ran out on the way to Mareeba. I was also unab

Wednesday began quietly, with my dirty clothes pile reminding me that I’d been away for a week so it was time to put a wash on. No problem with getting it dry afterwards. We were due to go to Charles and Debs later, as it was their turn to host ‘Wine Wednesday’, where a few neighbours take turns to host an evening get-together with drink and nibbles, so I fired up the Honda and headed for Port Douglas to see what I could find to take. The first thing I discovered, before any

At some point over the weekend the truck developed a diesel leak. We smelt it on the way home and once back found the cause easily enough, which was a hole in one of the common rail injector pipes on the top of the engine. On the plus side the engine block was probably the cleanest Conor’s ever seen it due to diesel being sprayed all over it for a sustained period. However, even though diesel and petrol are significantly cheaper here than at home (@£1.50 for diesel and £1.30