So you’ve forgotten the compass, or it’s stuck at the bottom of the pack and you’re too slack to dig it out, but you’d still like to know what direction you’re headed. You can do this easily by day or night.

In the day it is especially easy to find your way if you have a watch. Simply point the 12 at the sun and the spot half way between the 12 and the hour hand is due north. Obviously you will have to adjust this by an hour during daylight saving and it doesn’t work in the tropics in summer or late spring.

At night find the Southern Cross and imagine a line drawn from the star shown at the top on our flag running through the bottom and hanging out the end. Then imagine a line drawn
	at right angles to the pointers. Extend this line until it joins the line you have drawn coming from the bottom of the cross. The point on the horizon directly beneath this junction is due south. This method works no matter what angle the Southern Cross is in the sky (assuming you are in the southern hemisphere!).

But what if it's daytime and you only have a digital watch available? Not a problem! Take off your watch, do up the band and hang it from your index finger. Then spin the watch around your finger rapidly until it flies off. Your watch will always 'go west'.
(I tried this and two times out of five it flew west, one time south, once north and on the 5th throw my watch smashed on a rock. I knew I shouldn’t have believed the last bit. Ed)