Toilet Tours / Perth to Pemberton

We have a rogaine this weekend. And we won a 4wd tour in Pemberton. So we drive to Pemberton for the tour. Then we drive towards Collie for the rogaine.

An ideal opportunity to check out toilets in the south west. We pack, pack the truck, say goodbye to the cat. Leave home just after ten... Drive down the freeway... Usual pack of traffic but moving quite well. Still, I don't enjoy the freeway... Especially on the long drive south... It's boring: no towns, no stops, no toilets.

So we turn off onto Mundijong Road. Join South West Highway via Serpentine... having first checked out the Serpentine toilets.

How long have these toilets been in place ? Judging by the trees -- quite a long time. It's many years since I first discovered these toilets, on the edge of Serpentine, by the sports oval. Traditional brickwork, old fittings, well maintained -- for their age ! -- and clean. With the bonus of a small carpark immediately by the toilet block.

We drive on, to South West Highway -- a far more interesting drive than the newer and faster Forrest Highway. We take time for a quick stop at Waroona... Just a quick stop to stretch the legs and to check out one of the Waroona toilets.

Again, public toilets well-placed by a carpark. I wait while another driver uses the single Gents cubicle. Then my wife waits while the other driver's wife uses the single Ladies cubicle. Awkward timing. Simple, clean, tidy toilets.

We stop for lunch at a favourite spot, Stirling Cottage just north of Harvey. A light lunch of tomato bruschetta, mushroom bruschetta, just a bit healthy but nice. A highlight of the Cottage is the "authentic, historic, timber" toilets.

Well-weathered timber, split stable doors, "colts" and "fillies" to identify His and Hers. All very authentic. Except, perhaps, for the modern brick and tile interior.

Next stop, Nannup.

We had stayed near Nannup a year or two ago, on a very peaceful farmstay at Cambray sheep cheese farm. Nannup is still just as peaceful. And there are, of course, toilets. First we have coffee and a caramel slice at "Pickle O". Organic coffee but nice anyway :-)  Then check up on the toilets at the side of the town hall. And there is something very strange about the Nannup toilets:

Why are the Nannup toilets on their side ?!

Is this a strange aberration, a peculiarity of the steep countryside ? Perhaps a result of river flooding, which reached the main street just twenty years earlier ? Or it is just Windows 8 ?! In Windows displays, this photo is -- in most cases -- correctly horizontal. Yet Photoshop and Google place the toilets on their side...

Yet another pass through Photoshop -- a quick rotate -- and the Nannup toilets are now flat on the ground. A very curious phenomenon. I suspect a gravitic anomaly in the centre of the Nannup township.

Nannup also offers a geocache -- on a steam engine. Tiny magnetic cache hidden on a large metal structure ? Don't even look; drive on... To the Nannup cemetery, to look for a "last known address" cache. Almost miss it... I calculate the location from year of death rather than year of birth... Recalculate and easily find the cache.

We continue our drive... Through less farms and more National Parks -- very beautiful, lots of enormous karri trees, a very pleasant drive. To Pemberton, to Forest Lodge Resort, where we will stay for two nights. Frogs croaking in the garden outside. Very peaceful.

We eat dinner at the Pemberton Hotel. An old hotel but the dining room is more modern. Very nice ! We eat barramundi and trout, followed by cheesecake for dessert. All delicious, a good, hearty meal.

Toilets photographed, one cache found, good accommodation, an enjoyable meal. A very successful day !

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