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Rottnest Island is a special destination for interstate and international visitors. The whole island is a Nature Reserve of indigenous flora and fauna, including the curious Quokka, and no public vehicles are allowed.

Rottnest Island was named in 1696 by Navigator Willem de Vlamingh after the many large rats that he imagined he had found there. The island is still full of the marsupials he thought were rodents, the friendly little Quokkas, setonix brachyurus.

Their name, in one of the Aboriginal languages of southwest Australia, is gwaga. Read the rest of this entry »

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A lot of attention is paid to Australian beaches along the Pacific, but there is a lot more coastline than the East. The South West of Western Australia has natural beauty, real remoteness and miles of and miles of fantastic beaches. Read the rest of this entry »

In Queensland, the tourist campaign runs on the slogan ‘beautiful one day - perfect the next’. Corny it may be, but this slogan accurately describes the wonderland State with its fossil fields, wet tropical rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef and miles and miles of beautiful golden beaches. Read the rest of this entry »