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No one ever forgets Monkey Mia. The tiny town on the shores of Shark Bay is famous for its dolphins.
Dolphins that swim up to greet you, bump your legs, splash you and, let’s face it, laugh at you. After a day with the dolphins you can easily imagine them trilling, in chorus, ‘so long [...]

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 [...]

Sovereign Hill
You never find me at home in the first week of December. I’m up in Ballarat. My grandparents used to take me, way back in the 1950s, for Nana had a particular tie to the town, her grandfather was there, at the barricades, in the bloody days of the Eureka [...]