Good to see everyone out on the same places I used to ride on in the 80's on old xr200's, tf100, dt 175 and old suzuki pe's. A good ride out for us back then was to park up at camerons, bike up the bundie to the start of the big hill, hang left up gordies misake road, follow it up to the bundie again, right at cape terrace, first left to hanah dam road, get to the dam and follow the water race to the no name road intersection , follow no name down to the kumara/inchbonnie road, head to mitchels , turn left onto boarding house road , back through cockeye creek to where you started from , back up the start of no name road and head back to camerons. Always had to carry spare fuel and spark plugs, all ways lost all drum brakes after the 2-3 river crossing , most of the water races would be over grown by now , most where hard to find back then, good times
yea theres plenty of cool places to ride out there, forestry roads everywhere, its always fun riding out there on the old bikes, it would be cool to find these water races you are talking about. have you seen the old steel beam tram bridge that spans over a quite deep little valley, its off a side road inbetween the noname 4 way intersection and the cockeye eye turn off?
@@timdog161 yip that used to be the train tacks for the mill train ,it would take logs to the gladstone and camerons sawmills, most of the tracks where still in place when I was younger, boarding house road was named for the big boarding house that was beside the water race and the train line, further down boarding house road , the big pond is a man made dam with the water race on the other side of the road just before you go up that slight hill , it shouldnt be that hard to find, at the head of the dam there used to be some houses with some telegragh wires running through the bush to tell the dam man? to let the water come through , a lot of history in that area , but not many/any records of what happened around there , gold mining, logging lots of houses and settlments, all swallowed up by time and the bush, must of it was nearly gone in the 80's
Good to see everyone out on the same places I used to ride on in the 80's on old xr200's, tf100, dt 175 and old suzuki pe's.
A good ride out for us back then was to park up at camerons, bike up the bundie to the start of the big hill, hang left up gordies misake road, follow it up to the bundie again, right at cape terrace, first left to hanah dam road, get to the dam and follow the water race to the no name road intersection , follow no name down to the kumara/inchbonnie road, head to mitchels , turn left onto boarding house road , back through cockeye creek to where you started from , back up the start of no name road and head back to camerons. Always had to carry spare fuel and spark plugs, all ways lost all drum brakes after the 2-3 river crossing , most of the water races would be over grown by now , most where hard to find back then, good times
yea theres plenty of cool places to ride out there, forestry roads everywhere, its always fun riding out there on the old bikes, it would be cool to find these water races you are talking about. have you seen the old steel beam tram bridge that spans over a quite deep little valley, its off a side road inbetween the noname 4 way intersection and the cockeye eye turn off?
@@timdog161 yip that used to be the train tacks for the mill train ,it would take logs to the gladstone and camerons sawmills, most of the tracks where still in place when I was younger, boarding house road was named for the big boarding house that was beside the water race and the train line, further down boarding house road , the big pond is a man made dam with the water race on the other side of the road just before you go up that slight hill , it shouldnt be that hard to find, at the head of the dam there used to be some houses with some telegragh wires running through the bush to tell the dam man? to let the water come through , a lot of history in that area , but not many/any records of what happened around there , gold mining, logging lots of houses and settlments, all swallowed up by time and the bush, must of it was nearly gone in the 80's
Thats cool we will have to do some exploring