Bike Envy & the Daintree

Thursday the 4th of November 2010

Last night Alan was reminder of how much people love my bike in comparison to his and again today. The good folk here went out and inspected the bikes and unanimously decided that my Harley was the best. There is also a 2003 anniversary model Super Glide out the back (which belongs to the guy who keeps coughing up lungs). So in the

Railway Hotel Cairns Harley Show & Shine

my Harley won the best bike as voted by the guests, patrons and employees of the Railway Hotel in Cairns. So on behalf of myself I would like to thank….

We you next see Alan, please don’t rub it in too much, he’s a bit sensitive about it, personally I would have thought he would be used to it by now. I mean seriously you can’t call that a back tyre, it’s almost the same size as a postie bikes rear tyre.

We did eventually get out on the bikes this morning after an Alan breakfast special of Baked Beans, Eggs and toast.  (I got the coffee) The ride took us up to Port Douglas and Mossman, the first thing that you notice is the folks up here really love roundabouts there is a 25Klm stretch of the Cook highway which has nothing but roundabouts on it. But once your clear of them you get 50Klms of winding coastal roads all the way to Port Douglas, brilliant!!!

We then headed on to Mossman and the Daintree Forrest for lunch. I can’t go into too much detail as it was just too horrible, but let’s just suggest that someone not me nuded up and swam in the Daintree River.

Those poor tourists will be scared for life.

Finally whilst we were waiting for the return trip on the free shuttle bus a lady was having a conversation with her partner it went something like this.

Male: standing in the rain.

“Are you going to come and look around or what?”

Lady: standing under the eaves of the toilet block.

“No I think I’ll wait until it stops raining”

Andrew: completely soaked from either the constant tropical rain or the 100% humidity (take your pick).

“Snicker, snicker, good luck with that one.”

Lady:

“What do you mean?”

Andrew:

“It’s called a rainforest for a reason.”

Cheers

a