Forrest Highway rest stop

Toilet adds interest to
boring road

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Agamedes

Visited in February 2011

Agamedes' opinion: 7 out of 10

I don't really like the new Forrest Highway.

Sure, it save 30 minutes on a 200+ km journey from Perth to Bunbury. So what? It's boring!

It's a highway. Easy driving, good for sleeping. Right through the heart of very boring country.

I wonder, Is the country on either side really so boring? It's hard to tell... It's a wide highway, high speed limit... Mostly road as far as the driver cares to look, when travelling at speed.

Perhaps Forrest Highway is not really a boring highway. Driving along it is certainly boring. I prefer to join the highway later rather than sooner, to enjoy the older and more scenic alternative.

Still, there's over 100km that I travel along Forrest. So I stop for a break at the one rest stop with a toilet.

And what a toilet! Limestone walls, curved iron roof, open plan design... and running water! Not safe for drinking but it does mean that these are flush toilets with running water for washing hands.

Very civilised :-)

These are new toilets, to match the new highway. They are -- as far as I know -- the only toilets which are visible and accessible from the highway. (Unless you count the ones just across the road, for people driving the other way.) In more than 200km of easy driving, just one toilet stop.

Am I the only driver who thinks that toilet breaks are worth having?

It's another part of being a boring highway: One toilet, two parking areas, no shops and no towns. All designed to get you there in a hurry. No time to enjoy the drive itself...

Still, it's a nice toilet design.

Nice? Well, simple. Good looking, really.

Four cubicles on the right. An open passage and a wall on the left. Two handbasins on the wall. Still... running water... can't complain! Plain enough to elegant? Maybe.

Let's have a look inside...

Vandal-proof stainless steel...

No toilet seat -- a toilet seat could be damaged. Or left up or down, whichever you hate most... And no-one has peed on the toilet seat...

Yuk! What is someone has peed on the stainless steel?!

Oh well, at least it's easy to clean.

This is a low maintenance toilet for an isolated but very public location. You can understand why it has the minimum of fittings which could be forcibly removed.

It is clean, there is toilet paper, it's a flush toilet.

What more could you ask for?

Well... What about a geocache?

Yes, there's a geocache. In the same rest area. Just a bit over 100m from the toilet. A convenient location... Look out for the mosquitoes though!

Interestingly enough, the mosquitoes are only around the cache. There were none -- that I noticed -- around the toilet. Another mark in its favour :-)

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