I made a mistake on this cool sunny morning - I was looking for the back road to Wokalup to save a bit of distance, but couldn't find it! It must have changed. The realisation began at this point, and was reinforced during the trip, that I must get a new set of maps before doing another trip. My old well-used maps with their memories have to be replaced. I ended up doing a big round trip through the outskirts of Harvey, pleasant enough in itself on this fresh morning, and coming back to the hotel to go back to the south-western highway by the normal road. This added 5 kilometres to the day's ride, which I didn't need.

So I finally started the day's ride at 521, 9:40. I had originally started at 9:14, 516. I should have got going earlier. I had a rest at 538 and reached Brunswick at 542. I just stopped here briefly for a potty break. The town is lined with closed shops and derelict buildings, but the dairy seems to be still running. Perhaps it will liven up if Greater Bunbury ever spreads that far up the highway, but Bunbury like everywhere else is actually spreading thinly up and down the coast.

I passed the White Rocks farm, a landmark on the eastern side of the highway, then took another rest stop just after turning into the Dardanup Road at Waterloo at 554. This has now become a popular short cut but the main road goes off to the left, eastwards as you head south. I had to be careful to turn right at the junction where the Main road curves off to the left, and take the Tognolini-Italiano road for a kilometre before turning left for the last straight run down to Dardanup. I reached this small town at 564 in time to see a crocodile of school-children being shepherded into the Catholic church.

The road, formerly the main south-western highway until it was gradually replaced by the shorter North Boyanup Road, curved around to the west, heading for the T-junction with the main highway at Boyanup. The headwind was from the SW so this didn't help. I took another rest at 572, reached Boyanup at 574 and took a break at the public toilet. The faded lettering on the toilet said 'HIS' and 'HERS' but the HERS looked like GENTS unless inspected closely.

The road now began to curve around to the east, which made the wind more helpful on some stretches. The road seemed very hard and hilly - I always remember the stretch before Donnybrook as being quite easy, so I must have been tired. The real hard yakka begins about 1 km south of Donnybrook as you begin to climb the scarp towards Kirup. I was glad I wasn't going to be doing that on this day. I would have to face the scarp to reach Nannup and wondered if I would be up to it.

I reached Donnybrook at 589, 2:37. I checked into my unit, most glad to get there and dump the stuff, then rode on down into town for some shopping. I came back and had a welcome sleep, awoke very stiff. The pool was closed for maintenance, so I just had a shower, put my washing on the rotary hoist and shuffled into town to make 'phone calls, look at the oak tree and the river, take some pictures and get rissoles and chips for an early dinner. I passed the dingy Chinese restaurant with its faded lettering, still there after 20 years or more.

Reading at Donnybrook, end of day: 590. Km for day: 74. Aggregate: 189. Km/day: 63.