They came to pick us up at 7:15 am which is a very reasonable time considering our past experiences. A shuttle bus delivered us to the harbour where the Rottness Express was waiting for us...an another few hundred passengers.
This excursion was included in the package together with the hotel and it also included the bike rental. :-) Apparently the island is fairly flat and not too big, maybe 20 Km all around so you can easily move around using a bike which is the prefered transport type on the island. Everyone rides a bike!!
We started from the south of the island where the best snorkling points are and made our way to the beaches to the North. The black spots you see in the water are corals.
There are some popular spots where everyone stops
And the island is known for the great number of quokkas it contains. They were everywhere!
and they were quite friendly and used to humans and I know of one such human who couldn't resist the temptation
Although had you seen feeding one of them you could be heavily fined!
The island is also known by its nice beaches which of course we tried...at least 3 or 4 of them until we settled for one in the end. :-) The weather was good, about 30C but with clouds coming and going which made the heat much more bearable.
There was also a lighthouse
And they also use renewable energies in the island. Javi, this one is dedicated to you!
There were school trips in the island, and also a course about the island biology where they take you snorkling around the island, you can see them below just about to start the snorkling.
The ferry back to Perth was leaving at 16:00 so we went back to the ferry and returned the bikes.
And at the harbour in Perth we found the shuttle bus waiting for us.
This time it took so long to get to our accomodation that it would have taking us less time to walk there...but we didn't know that so we endured the whole trip. Which allowed us to spot a couple of interesting places in town.
No plans for tomorrow so we'll see what we end up doing. :-)
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Gracias Yago, turbina Enercon.
ReplyDeletejajaja...gracias por la aclaración :-)
ReplyDeleteHola hola !!!
ReplyDeleteBonitas fotografías, gracias, estoy viajando de una forma muy cómoda.
Se me hace larga la espera por las siguientes. Saludos de Guadalupe.
Por fin estamos en la civilización otra vez con lo que trataré de actualizar las entradas que faltan en los próximos 2-3 días...hay un montón de fotos que organizar. :-)
ReplyDeleteHemos estado en sitios realmente impresionantes en los últimos 10 días.