We’re in the south-west corner of Western Australia today.

Although we’d asked the takeaway shop owner about the local tourist attractions last night when we were ordering dinner, we decided to pass on her suggestion of visiting her street with four drug dealers and two prostitutes. After a bit of reading in the official (though duller) Bunbury Tourist Bureau, we decided to drive east toward Collie and get a free tour of a coal mine, that being the main industry of the town. However, it turned out to be further away than we thought, and we would have missed the tour if we’d gone, so we decided to return to our original plan of going southward.

It was shortly after this that we had a bit of a navigational problem. Di had the map and directed Trav along the right road, but then told me to take the wrong turn-off. Trav decided quickly that they were heading in the wrong direction, and attempted to get them back onto the correct road. Only one small detail - Trav had become disoriented during the drive to Collie, and was heading north, not south. Just before a large sign loomed up to point out this error, I had made the comment to simply “Trust me, we just go down this road and we’ll be fine”. (NB : swallowing one’s pride is never a satisfactory meal). On the plus side, we can now tell you the best way to the Bunbury bicycle shop, seeing as we passed it three or four times in our misguided travels.

Trav was put into contention as SPOTD, setting the pace early, and seeing as nobody had risen to the challenge by the end of the day, Trav won the right to the award.

Categories: SPOTD