I did my longest haul of this road trip today, from Albany on the south coast all the way up to New Norcia, about 130km north-east of Perth. I noticed that many of the land divisions here are called shires and I even passed a sign welcoming me to the shire of York, which made me feel strangely at home. I was an unwilling, and unhappy, accomplice in the death of at least one bird today. The one confirmed killing happened in less than a second - a green object shot in from the right and bounced off the windscreen. I backtracked and found a parrot that was well beyond the stage of being as sick as. Ten minutes later, another bird thudded into the windscreen, but I couldn't find a body so hopefully that one
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