What to do in Perth on Christmas Day? Take the boat from Fremantle to Rottnest Island |
Rottnest Express - Fremantle |
Rottnest Express - Fremantle |
Sailing out of the Port of Fremantle on the Rottnest Express (prebook a bike if you want one) |
Welcome to Rottnest Island |
Small boats anchored in Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island |
Small boats anchored in Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island |
Small boats anchored in Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island |
Welcome to Rottnest Island - You have entered an A Class Reserve |
Experience Rottnest Island by bicycle |
Bicycle Helmets are compulsory on Rottnest |
Map of the bike trails on Rottnest Island |
Kingston Barracks, Rottnest Island |
Thomson Bay on the east side of Rottnest Island |
Sanddunes, Rottnest Island |
Holiday cottage-Kennedy, Rottnest Island |
Holiday cottage-Kennedy, Rottnest Island |
A pair of Quokka - a marsupial found on Rottnest Island that caused Dutch explorers to name the island Rottnest, i.e. Rat's Nest |
Quokkas - Rottnest Island |
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus), Rottnest Island |
The Quokkas on Rottnest Island do not fear people and thrive without exotic predators |
Salt lake, Rottnest Island |
Cycling clockwise around Rottnest Island |
Surprisingly, there is a railroad on tiny Rottnest Island |
Road along the south shore, Porpoise Bay, Rottnest Island |
Henrietta Rocks, Rottnest Island |
You have to keep moving - if you stop, the horrible flies catch up with you |
Bush of central Rottnest Island looking towards the lighthouse |
Beach and dunes of the south coast of Rottnest Island |
South Coast, Rottnest Island |
South Coast, Rottnest Island |
Boats moored off the south coast of Rottnest Island |
Boats moored off the south coast of Rottnest Island |
Boats moored off the south coast of Rottnest Island |
South Coast, Rottnest Island |
Parker Point Loop - Rottnest Island |
Parker Point Loop - Rottnest Island |
Little Salmon Bay - Rottnest Island |
Coral reef right off the south coast of Rottnest Island |
Good snorkeling off the south coast of Rottnest Island |
Little Salmon Bay - Rottnest Island |
Little Salmon Bay - Rottnest Island |
Salmon Point, South Coast - Rottnest Island |
Salmon Point, South Coast - Rottnest Island |
Salmon Point, South Coast - Rottnest Island |
Wild rock formation, Parker Point Loop - Rottnest Island |
South Coast - Rottnest Island |
Salmon Bay, Rottnest Island |
Looking across Salmon Bay from Salmon Point to the Wadjemup Lighthouse |
Salmon Bay, South Coast - Rottnest Island |
Giant osprey nest, Salmon Point - Rottnest Island |
Wadjemup Lighthouse in the center of Rottnest Island |
Cycling up to the highest point on Rottnest Island, the Wadjemup Lighthouse |
The road to Wadjemup Lighthouse - keep pedaling so the flies don't catch you |
Wadjemup Lighthouse, 1896 |
Wadjemup Lighthouse (Rottnest Island Light Station) |
Wadjemup Lighthouse, Rottnest Island |
Wadjemup Lighthouse, Rottnest Island |
Looking across the center of Rottnest Island to the distant north shore |
Wadjemup Lighthouse, Rottnest Island |
View to the east from the Wadjemup Lighthouse with the skyline of Perth dimly visible on the horizon |
Wadjemup Lighthouse, Rottnest Island |
North Shore - Rottnest Island |
North Shore - Rottnest Island |
North Shore - Rottnest Island |
Catherine Bay ending at Armstrong Rock, North Shore - Rottnest Island |
North Shore - Rottnest Island |
The beach at Parakeet Bay on the north shore with tiny Parakeet Island just off shore |
Parakeet Bay, North Shore - Rottnest Island |
Female ring-necked pheasant in the grass along one of the inland lakes, Rottnest Island |
Ring-necked pheasant hen, Rottnest Island |
Geordie Bay, North Coast - Rottnest Island |
Geordie Bay, North Coast - Rottnest Island |
Rottnest Chapel in the Settlement |
Rottnest Lodge |
Lomas Cottage - "Buckingham Palace" |
Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island |
Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island |
Bathurst Point, Rottnest Island |
Bathurst Lighthouse, Rottnest Island |
Bathurst Lighthouse, Rottnest Island |
The Settlement, Rottnest Island |
The Settlement, Rottnest Island |
The Salt Store, Rottnest Island |
The Salt Store, Rottnest Island |
"Downtown" Rottnest Island |
"Downtown" Rottnest Island |
Boardwalk, Rottnest Island |
Dôme Café, Rottnest Island |
Experience Rottnest Island |
Cottages overlooking Thomson's Bay, Rottnest Island |
Gull - Thomson's Bay, Rottnest Island |
On the jetty, Rottnest Island |
Rottnest Fast Ferries - Seaflyte |
Rottnest Fast Ferries - Seaflyte |
Rottnest Fast Ferries - Seaflyte |
Sailboat moored in Thomson Bay |
Thomson Bay, Rottnest Island |
Seagull in flight, Rottnest Island |
Thomson Bay |
Rottnest Express - Star Flyte Express |
Departing the Jetty, Rottnest Island |
Nice day out, except for the flies |
Rottnest Island |
Rottnest Island |
Wake of the Rottnest Express |