Day 1 of our 3 day driving tour of South West Australia and we had a lovely white Toyota Corolla with the logo no birds all over it - make of that what you will!!! I had a bit of a panic when I first got into it and realised that it was an automatic (it's quite a while since I've driven one of those hey Dad) but after a few minutes tuition I was good to go. The roads down to the SW are great - straight, smooth and not too busy. Our first stop was Mandurrah where...

We had a litte panic on the plane coming into the country, as we had marked just about every box on the customs declaration form - we had shells, wooden items, muddy boots, had been near a river in the last 30 days and so on. We were certain that we were going to have to empty all our luggage at customs but when we arrived there and showed the women our card she pointed us to a scanner and conveyor belt - surely this was wrong!! Slightly shocked we had our luggag...