Bubsselton

Perth to Dunsborough, day 1, Monday 1 December 1980. As in 1979, I decided to take the morning Australind train and start my ride from Bunbury. My plan required me to arrive in Bunbury at about 1pm, as the train did in those days, and try to reach Dunsborough before the day got too late. This was going to be a hard slog of some 77 km into a headwind. This plan had been made possible by the discovery that Dunsborough now had a place to stay, which it hadn’t before. It used to be just a small village with a famous bakery. In the 1980′s it was starting its rapid expansion.

I don’t remember what I wore for this ride.  ... Read more