Hally and Pinko visit the Main Range National Park

Hall and I rode to the Main Range National Park on Saturday. We rode through Spicer's Gap and took in the view from the "Governor's Chair". Here's a little video that I recorded during our trip.



We stopped at the entrance to the park. The dirt path through Spicer's Gap starts here. (It's the old route from Brisbane in to New South Wales. Hall's bike was certainly more at-home in this terrain than the GS.

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I set up camp at the Spicer's Gap campground. It was deserted when we arrived but a few more people arrived later in the afternoon.

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It was an easy stroll up to the Governor's Seat. Apparently, in the nineteenth century, the state governor used to come up here to survey the land.

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Can you tell from this picture that it was really windy on Sunday? I snapped this on my hike along Mt Mathieson trail.

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There was a grassy meadow close to the end of the walk, replete with wildflowers and butterflies.

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The message is at the foot of a cairn dedicated to the pioneers who perished building and maintaining the mountain road through Spicer's Gap.

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