A nail in Bronwyns rear wheel only a few KM into the ride.

Having departed Springfield Railway Station it only took a couple kilometres into the ride before we pulled over on the side of Centenary Highway for Luke to complete some repair work to Bronwyns tire. The culprit was a large nail that went straight through the tire. Bronwyn had some concern that we would have to retreat but an unphased Luke plugged the tire and put a couple pumps of air into the tire and off we continued.

Bronwyn tackling the start of a little 20% pinch.

Bronwyn heading into Beaudesert.

Arriving at our accommodation. The former Logan Village railway station building.

Looking out over the valley towards Mount Lindesay.

An external shot of the former Logan Village railway station building.

After some earlier sprinkles of rain the sun and blue sky started to shine through. Despite this the radar still showed heavy showers around northern New South Wales and west towards Killarney/Boonah but was clear where we intended to ride.

Leaving Rathdowney back to Barney View

Some scenic views overlooking various valleys along the 42km scenic ride back. Heavy rain was still on the radar but so far we lucky enough to only have a couple spits of rain and missing the passing sun showers.

Just like the day before there were scattered showers throughout northern New South Wales but was looking unlikely that we would get any on the heavier rain however we couldn’t fully rule that out. Todays planned route was from Barney View to Rosewood Railway station via Cannon Creek/Sugarloaf Hill into Boonah. There were some reservations riding along Boonah-Rathdowney road due to the nature of the single lane road width, traffic numbers and long sweeping corners. The majority of traffic gave plenty of space however there were the few the were either anti bikes or “must not over take bikes at all costs even if they are waving us thru on the straights but will do so slowly on this long blind corner/brake excessively after refusing to overtake on the ‘climb’ just prior” that left us scratching our heads. Other than that it was a nice place to ride through. Wouldn’t be ideal during summer but is good during autumn and spring (just avoid school holiday period).

The road we want is on the other side of that!

Leading up to the Cannon Creek turnoff Bronwyn wasn’t feeling the excitement of some off road climbing so we plotted a direct route into Boonah via the main road with some site seeing stops along the way. Such as visiting the dairy farm that we last saw four years ago on our 2019 Tour de Boonah – Stage 3 Killarney to Lake Maroon ride. Every time we started heading west (especially when we headed south west to look at some dairy cows) we were reminded of the rumbling thunder and storms in the distance however as soon as we started to head north it was nothing but blue skies with a few clouds and the temperature starting to rise. Despite it being blue skies above us every now and then we would get a few very light spits of rain which was quite welcome with the warming up temperatures and crosswinds. 

Bronwyn found some cows.

As we were having a sandwich on thinly sliced bread with a side of chips for lunch at Boonah a brief little sun shower (if you can even call it that. The mist setting on a spray bottle would have been stronger than what  we saw) came through. That would be the last of any type of rain fall we would experience for the rest of the ride. We made our way out of Boonah via Mount French towards the backroads into Kalbar and onto Harrisville. In that quick lunch period the temperature had gone up by 6 degrees to 30 which was a nice reminder that winter was ending. Between Boonah-Harrisville is a mix of agricultural and farm land with some being quite luscious and green next to the Warrill Creek while others up on the hill being quite dry.

Tackling some gravel roads having left Boonah.

Bronwyn riding next to some green fields. 

After a quick chockie milk stop at Harrisville it was a leisurely ride back to Rosewood where Bronwyn enjoyed a well deserved ice cream after the 125km/1530m ride.

Bronwyn passing road kill.

Bronwyn with the customary “I’m at Rosewood” shot before doing the math of can we get ice creams from town before the train arrives (yes was the answer).