Mt McCaw, Kelly Basin Road and Pillinger

Saying goodbyes we headed off to Strahan, Mt McCaw on good advice from Phil, our mission took us to Queenstown again.

This time, no weather bomb, nice and warm and even spectacular views this time as last time it was like riding inside a Tupperware container.

Kelly Basin Road, the most southern part you can ride to from Queenstown, it is simply a stunning area.

Arriving at our camp we set up in a great spot, the nights were cold and again the fire kept spirits up along with sky TV with bright clear nights.

Mt Mc Caw, 4WD only for most of it and it takes you right into the top of the world, reaching the end of the road we had been advised to walk it if possible as it is very steep.

The Ranger was right, the bike would have struggled back up, we could have done it but to risk damage etc the 570m we walked it, the walking track starts from there and is only 500 m long BUT has a 300 m vertical drop including ladders and chains to hang onto.

Since neither of us bought our Re Bull free climbing insane gear we gave it a miss.     

Making our way back out to the road we hit it left to the end of the valley to the Bird River track out to Pillinger.

A historic site it was a harbour and port in its ha day with 1000 residents, now mum nature has reclaimed it with vigor and only a few of the remains still stand as well as some boilers.

On completion of our walk we were buggered, with ½ hour to go we had both run outa puff having already done Mt McCaw, Skippy was a great sight and we returned to camp stopping to get fire along the way.

Another nice evening and the following day we piled off to through the inland road through Tullah, just as we approached Tullah 3 HRD Vincent moto pulled in so we followed them to the car park enquiring as to what was going on, turned out it was a classic bike run with about 150 bikes.

Not every day you will see a Ural and 3 HRD Vincents. 

Our destination was Warratah as we hadn’t been there yet, again our local knowledge c/o Phil and Beth we ended up in a place called Magnet mine were we camped, we had the whole place to ourselves, it was so quiet and peaceful.

We did some off roading in Skippy before turning around to set up camp and make a fire.

 Next up before heading away from district was Philosopher Falls, a nice walk in and out with nothing too difficult.