Trials again.

We were at Southern Districts last night, I did Masters and Open while Hannah just did Masters. It was a night of "almost " for us, we almost got it right but did not qualify. I got clear in Agility but over time due to a slow start; then did the discrimination in open but Keith crossed the line and I did a wrong course. The pic shows me at the top of the Scramble in the Discrimination zone.
Jumping was going well until I missed a jump in Masters, then we were almost home in Open when Keith stopped too soon and sent me over a wrong jump. Hannah dropped a bar in Masters Jumping then went the wrong way over a jump, but ran well. Agility was not too good after she went up a dog walk instead of the tunnel, so Kathy pulled her out. Hannah fell off the dog walk in training (she turned round in the middle of it and lost her footing) so we did not want to risk another accident.

Tiffany RAE

 Tiffany has got her Rally Advanced Excellent Title, so she now has RAE added to her list of titles.
It has been a long road for Tiffany. She backed into the fridge and hurt her leg practicing the 3 Steps Backward station and would not do that for ages. Then there was the time she was waiting at the Honour station and did a marking wee to get disqualified; and we won't count the times Keith did the wrong station and  run out of points.
At last she has her 10 Advanced and Excellent at the same trial qualifications. In fact she has 12, getting three out of three trials at the Gundog Club Double/ Double. Keith was trial manager and was too busy to do the fourth trial, but she did not need that one anyway. The photo (taken by Lynne) shows her jumping over the bar at the Send Over Jump station.

Ettamogah Pub

The Ettamogah pub is something of an Australian treasure, steeped in the Aussie culture. The pub came from a magazine cartoon that was popular in the 1970s, a long long time before I was born, and has been a great tourist attraction ever since they were built. I say "They" because there are four of them, spread over Australia. This one is in Cunderdin in WA.
Is it only me that sees the irony in the fact that some people have built replicas of a pub that does not exist, and hundreds of other people go to see them?
The picture shows Hannah and I outside a paradox, that's got to be a first for any Toller.

Cow Town

There is a town called Cowaramup that the locals call Cow Town because there are 42 fibreglass cows set up all through the town as tourist attractions. The pic shows us lying down with one of them.
Cows are themed through out the town, from the Cow Candy shop through to Cow Town fuel,
It was all the same to us, we had a walk among the cows, had a photo taken and then back in the car and on to the next place.
Sometimes we are amazed at what attracts tourists.

Bunker Bay

Still on holidays in the west. The pic today shows us at Bunker Bay, WA. We are staying at Busselton and have been out for the day touring around. We stopped for a leg stretch, a sniff, a toilet and a photo. We were not allowed to go for a swim, despite Tiffany's pleading, because we would get the car wet.
Most of the places around here are National Parks and dogs are not allowed so we don't go in there.
School holidays are on, so everywhere has lots of children around. We have to put up with kids coming over to pat us and play with us. Its a hard life, but someone has to do it.

Gold Fever

The picture shows us with the statue of Hardy Norseman, a horse that started the town of Norseman. The horse was walking around here when he kicked a rock and revealed a nugget of gold and that started a gold rush.
We spent ages digging up rocks to find a nugget, but could not find any. Someone said that to get gold out of rocks you smelt it. Well, we sniffed every where and we still did not find any. If they smelt gold they had better noses than ours. For all the good we did we would have been better off filtering sea water through our tail feathers.
Today we went down the 'Ninety Mile Straight,' 90 miles of road with no turning. Not much for us, we went past a sign, nodded off to sleep and woke up when we went round the next corner. Couldn't see what all the fuss was about. It was much more fun searching for gold in the caravan park!

Go WEST young dog!

We are following the code of the American pioneers and heading for the west. The pic shows us at the border, with me in South Australia and Hannah in Western Australia.
It has been an interesting trip so far, we met up with Mintie and Maggie for lunch on Saturday, had a night in Kimba where we played ball at the back of the caravan park, stayed at Nundroo where we had to stay close to the caravan because of the snakes and now we are in WA at Madura where we have to beware of 1080 fox baits! We do have an exciting life.