Today's 53 km bike ride finished in the Queensland town named Texas. Unlike the USA State of Texas, the Queensland namesake certainly isn't a big place, so how did the town get its name? History holds it that the settlement was named as a result of a territorial dispute. The land in the area was first settled by the McDougall brothers, who found squatters there on returning from the goldfields. Once their legal right to the land was recognised, they named their property in honour of the rather more famous dispute between the United States and Mexico over territory in the southern USA.
Cycle Queensland tent town at Texas
Downtown Texas
A striking facade on this building
Roadside puncture repair. Caused by little prickly thorns and a lesson to not ride off sealed roads again!
No bike event could be held without the mobile coffee wagon
No comments:
Post a Comment