As I feared, Rottnest Island was full of teenagers who finished school and had boiling hormones. But they seemed to stay in the settlement near the jetty, as soon as I rented a bike and rode to other parts of the island it was very quiet. It’s a small island, only 11x4km and it’s not spectacular, or maybe I have just seen too many spectacular places and have become blasé. However, it’s a very pleasant place with some beautiful beaches (I did some snorkeling again), clear waters AND: an animal I hadn’t seen before – Australia surprises me to the very last moment. Meet the quokka:
The quokka is a marsupial; it belongs to the family of the kangaroo. Since the island is so small and receives so many visitors, they are used to people are not afraid of getting near you, you can even touch them, they are very curious.
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| One of the bays of Rottnest Island |
The island is only 19km away from Perth, but it felt as if it were very far… The Western tip is amazing. On my second day I got an SMS from the ferry company saying that because of the bad weather the schedule had changed. I ended up returning to Perth a couple of hours earlier than expected. The trip was horrible, they distributed paper bags to everyone "just in case" and the service stopped in Fremantle but they put me in a shuttle that dropped me at my hostel. I had to wait one hour or so for the nausea to go away.
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