Rottnest

It was a river ferry and also went offshore for about 15 miles to a shitty little tourist island called Rottnest, the only big island of the West Australian coast and actually named by Dutch explorers as "Rats Nest" due to the native rat bastard looking creatures called Quokkas that are not Rodents at all but some kind of Marsupial.

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The latest was Saturday when American George Thomas Wainwright, 32, was attacked while diving solo off a boat near Rottnest Island, a few miles kilometers from the city of Perth in Western Australia state.

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The 32-year-old tourist is believed to have been diving off the popular Rottnest Island, 12.5 miles northwest of Perth, at Little Armstrong Bay, PerthNow reported.

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The western elevation in contrast is much more open, featuring extensive glazing to take advantage of the magnificent views out towards the Indian Ocean and to Rottnest Island while providing generous overhangs to protect against the harshness of the summer sun.

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I got a purple beanie - all cotton made in china - when I was on Rottnest Island.

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The beach is 11 miles 18 kilometers east of Rottnest Island.

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BTW we went to Rottnest Island on the hols so The Bloke got to see real live quokkas for the first time ever.

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But they did thankfully find some time to enjoy themselves in and around Freo and with trips to Rottnest etc.

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His tale, as related by Mr. Monger, also appeared very straightforward and truthful, that white men had been killed by the natives twenty years ago; that he had seen the spot, which was at a spring near a large lake, so large that it looked like the sea as seen from Rottnest, eleven days 'journey from Ningham or Mount

Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, John Forrest 1882

Leaving the Isle of Rottnest, they sailed north, intending to examine the shore, but the wind compelled them to keep off the land.

The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876