Rottnest Island is 18km’s off shore from Freemantle. It is famous for it’s native quokka. These little marsupials are curious and used to the tourists.
It is a popular holiday destination in a sub tropical climate. A resident population of just 100 swells to 15,000 in peak season with day trippers and holidaymakers.
With an area of just 19 square kilometres, everyone walks or rides bicycles to get around. Or uses a boat.
The island has a chequered history as an aboriginal prison, boy’s reformatory, internment camp with several buildings remaining from these periods.
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It was a cute little fellow.
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And Rottnest is a derivation of Rat nest. This is what the original colonists thought of quokkas. Amazing they survived.
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I prefer to think of them as mini kangaroos.
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I’ve never heard of quokkas before. They look like an interesting cross between a rat, a squirrel, and a really, really tiny kangaroo 🙂
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They are marsupials so closer to kangaroo than the others.
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