Glancing in the car’s rearview mirror, I smiled at my beautiful blue heeler Clancy, then two, sitting in the back seat.
‘Good boy,’ I beamed.
It was July 2023, and we’d just spent a few days with some mates in remote Coral Bay, WA. My boy and I were now 17 kilometres into our eight-hour journey south to another friend’s place in Dongara.
After averting my eyes from the road for a millisecond, I looked up and realised I’d veered onto the
