The Outback Dunny

When I was growing up, and we headed off into the bush camping, there was never, ever any outback loos in the middle of nowhere.

I laughed so much when I turned up at Cave Hill the other day and found this... I was in the middle of the bush, a few hundred kilometres from anywhere, and there was a toilet.

One single toilet. A wooden closed off structure, out in the middle of nowhere

I'm yet to decide if this is a good thing or not. I know there are plenty of people who don't do the right thing and don't bury their toilet paper and so on, but this seems like spending a whole lot of money in a very remote area.

There is something fun about finding a bush or a tree and hoping you're done before a car comes along! Plenty of times I've stopped for a wee and gone bush and seen snakes, kangaroos, echidnas. There are lots of good reasons to go bush!

How many weird and strange-looking dunnies have you seen out bush? And what wonderful stories do you have?

How's this one for a ripper? Pretty are it's not just redback spiders on the toilet seat in this one! This excellent specimen of a loo was found at Big Bell, about a 25-minute drive from Cue in the north of WA.

A very wonky looking shack build from corrugated iron. The door is on crooked and on the front has been spray painted the word: TOILET.

Leave me a comment and tell me about your favourite outback loos, or your fav public loo. It's always good to get an idea of where the clean ones are. And, as I'm just getting the blog going again, please feel free to share any of these posts so we can start getting some traction away from the social media sites.

Fleur McDonald

Bestselling crime author and one of Australia’s leading rural literature authors. Having sold over 1,00,000 copies of her books, she has solidified her position as one of the country’s favourite storytellers.

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