CYCLING TOURISTS: Come to Cairns!
We would like to invite cyclists from around the world and the rest of Australia, to come to Cairns. Even if you do not have a lot of information before you get here, you can soon find out all you need to know right here in Cairns. Information about maps, accommodation, camping, bike shops, restaurants, pubs, caravan parks, entertainment, activities, tourist attractions, clubs, and much more can be found at tourist information centres, newsagents, map shops and tourist agencies. You are invited to also visit or call us for any assistance.
Winter months are a good time of the year to visit Cairns. The weather is warm, not too hot and certainly not cold which is good for outdoor activites, sight seeing and visiting the beaches. Cycling in the Cairns area is good. We have wide, flat roads with bicycle lanes on the major roads that make it ideal for cycling.
A note of warning: The Kuranda Range, Capt Cook Hwy north of Palm Cove and the Bruce Hwy south of Edmonton, are not ideal conditions for cyclists. These highways have no road shoulders, bike lanes or paths, therefore cyclists need to show caution and have lots of experience.
On a good note: Once you are past these trouble spots, you can experience coastal rides north of Port Douglas, inland from Kuranda to the Atherton Tablelands and southern areas off the highway from Edmonton to Gordonvale. Why not take your bike on the Kuranda Train and ride from there.
Cairns is renouned for its eateries, especially sea food. prawns, bugs, reef fish are a delicacy and not at all that expensive. Fresh vegetables and exotic tropical fruits are a luxury that we take for granted. Meals can start from a $3 pub special to "a la carte", with a wide range of traditional International and Australian cuisine.
Bicycle Touring - Trip Notes:
In and Around Cairns: CAIRNS
Cairns to Innisfail: CAIRNS TO INNISFAIL VIA THE ATHERTON TABLELANDS
Cairns and the Outback: CAIRNS TO NORMANTON
Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands: CAIRNS TO ATHERTON
Cairns to Cape Tribulation: CAIRNS TO CAPE TRIBULATION
The Bloomfield Track: CAIRNS TO COOKTOWN
The Barrier Reef Trail: CAIRNS TO ROCKHAMPTON
The Capricornia Trail: ROCKHAMPTON TO BRISBANE
These trip notes are very important and help visitors, not only from Australia, but from all over the world, plan their activites more efficiently. So if you have been helped by these notes, please let us know. Comments. Also send us your trip notes for publication and you'll be helping the next cyclist who visits our wonderful Tropical North Queensland.
QUICK LINKS
South East Queensland Epic Cycles - Sustainable Transport Initiative - detailed information about cycling routes
Brisbane to Woodford Woodford Folk Festival - Bicycle routes - how to get there
Brisbane Centenary Bikeways - bike rides
BUSINESSES WITH INFORMATION, ACCOMMODATION, BIKE SHOPS and MAPS:
Please support the businesses who look after us
BICYCLE TOURS:
Escape Adventures:
John Etherington is from Escape Adventures, www.escapeadv.com based down in sunny Wanaka, New Zealand.
John and his partner Mandy have been leading biking adventures in some pretty awesome parts of the world for around 7 years now, mostly in East Africa, here at home down south in NZ and more recently in Chile, China and Tibet.
They would love to get more keen Australian cyclists to join us on some of our adventures.
Contact: email address John@escapeadv.com or by ph on +64 3 4431126 or mobile +64 21 548991.
Happy pedalling
John and Mandy
Escape Adventures.
Small group biking and active adventures in Africa, Asia,
New Zealand and South America.
Take the road less travelled
Website
Ann and Ross Pearson, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Follow the journey of a young stroke survivor and his wife as they cycle around Australia on their tandem. Ross and Ann Pearson left Sydney in March 2004, visited Cairns in June and plan to complete the circuit (right around Australia) in 2005. You can read their daily diary updates and see photos of people and places they visit at www.able2ride.com
PHOTO: L to R Lenore Evans (Secretary CBUG) Councillor Margaret Gill (Deputy Mayor Cairns) Ann and Ross Pearson (tandem cyclists)
TOURING CYCLISTS:
Bob and Claire Rogers,U.S.A.,
23rd May 2000 arrived Cairns, Australia to ride our tandem (Cannondale) - nick name "Zippy" plus trailer, thoughout Australia for the next year. We will proceed south via the inland to Alice Springs and then ----------------. Check out our web site for more details of our travels. See ya!
22ND APRIL 2001: BOB AND CLAIRE - HAVE ARRIVED IN CAIRNS - 11 MONTHS - 18,000 KMS.
TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRES:
Tourism Tropical North Queensland, 51 The Esplanade, PO Box 865 Cairns, Queensland, Australia 4870.
TOURING CYCLISTS:
Website - See where they have been.
Email - Congratulate them.
Website - See where they have been.
Email - Congratulate them.
Phone 07 4031 7676. Fax 07 4051 0127.
Email media@tnq.org.au
- All sorts of information.
WEATHER WATCH:
Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Australia:-
QUEENSLAND WEATHER AND FLOOD INFORMATION:
OTHER BIKE ROUTES:
Australia's Bicentennial National Trail:-