Knight Road (named for Great-Granddad Knight), the farm house (that extended family still sometimes stay in), a sheep’s skull, a picnic, Dad’s motorbike from when he was a boy, following in the footsteps of Dad after being attacked by red ants (in VERY inadequate-for-a-farm footwear), a Hills Hoist (VERY Australian), a bush wee, farming equipment, quarz (?), a paddy melon (an invasive species that farmers do NOT like), and the girls’ FIRST TIME TO DRIVE!!!! Driving back into Collie we saw where Grandma Heather used to live. First at 24 Venn St* (Grandma’s first home) and then at 89 Wittenoom St**. We also stopped by Minninup Pool, where Grandma used to ride her bike to for a swim in summer. On our way back to Perth (with a bit of a detour!) we stopped at Wellington Dam to see the beautiful new mural on the dam wall (hydro power station in the Collie River Valley). It is the largest mural painted on a dam, in the world!

* Great-Grandma and Great-Granddad Knight moved into a room of this house after they got married. Grandma says it looks better now!

** Great-Granddad had this house built on a block that Mr Simpson had planted about 10 fruit trees. Grandma said it was a good house (though noted that it doesn’t look so good now). Grandma says, “we went there just before Ian was born and I started school. We left there in 1966 and came to Forrest Street”. These houses and the church are on the south side of the town, separated by a very busy rail line. There was another house they lived in, between the above two, and it was something like 55/57/59 Wallsend St, across the rail line and north, close to the hospital. “We moved from Venn St before Peter was born”. The church was just behind where they lived; very easy to get to.