Terrorurism, Long Lost New Family And Ural Wall Of Fame

Port Douglas, two kiwis doing the terrorurist thing playing on the reef as ya do, a must do on our list for a long time.

Belinda booked our trip so we had a committed date, we then tried to get a camp site…school holidays made quick work of making this difficult, we did however manage to get a site at a slight premium.

We had a day out on the Great Barrier Reef with 3 lots of snorkeling and the most fish we have ever seen per sq metre, to say it was awesome was an understatement so for us a great day out doing civilian things like normal humans.

From Port Douglas it was back to Cairns to Patrick and Belindas to do a round of oil changes, bolt and nut tightening and just a general check over after the roughness of the cape, while we were there this wee jet boat was there.

Cairns in the background from a roof top bar

A couple of social days relaxing then on our way south towards Townsville with an overnight stopover in between.

Houston and Emily, two young moto travellers we met down in Tassie, we call them our kids… good buggers!!, Townville in the home of Emilys Mum and Dad otherwise known as Mark and Linda.

We were invited to meet and stay with them which was so cool, both having seen us in Emily and Houstons vids they felt like the already knew us…..boy were they in for a shock!

They are both keen moto riders having CFL300L to travel their locale on, Mark was pretty keen to see the strange tripod in person too, one part of our mission was to take Linda for a skid in Skippy...good fun. 

Again we were made to relax and suffer a drink or two...apparently its social...or something 😂 and a mandatory trip to the central lookout, Mark is a wealth of knowledge giving us the info on the surrounding areas, while nearly the top a Russian Freightliner came in to land at the airport and it was massive, it looked stunning slowly coming in, to me it is amazing something that weighs so much can fly. 

The last mission for Skippy was to check the sidecar alignment after the cape, with the straight edges, tape measures and two engineers we corrected the alignment and did check measures…job done, the sidecar fender had nearly split in half as well so we did and 4 bolts and backing plate panel job to hold it all in place till we get our new guard, Mark gave us a full concrete warrantee for the repair. (Once Skippy was off the concrete that was when the warrantee exipried 😂)

We sat down each night for a few quiet ones as Mark and Linda were up for a few yarns.

The Monday was a holiday but we managed to catch up with Bruce at TSV Sidecars, the Ural Dealer and sidecar fabricator in Townsville.

We got to write our date etc on Bruces wall of fame of Urals which made it to the top and back.      

Move over Lee the Kiwis are invading 😂, all in all yet again to a town we don't know the people have made it and we have thoroughly enjoyed it, enjoys Ellens vid