Some of the Best on Rottnest

Hello Big Uns and Erin, Una, Thais and Taylor.

The thing about Australia right.......
that no-one ever told me......
is that it's feckin freezing and it rains a lot.

I wouldn't have minded if people had said
"Australia? - Oh yeh, that place that's really wet and cold"

That way I would have expected it. But what people tend to say is.
"Australia? - Oh yeh, that place that's really dry and hot"
I think that's what has misled me

I'm thinking that this is all one of UV's jokes, and everyone is in on it, telling me the lies?
Good one UV. I'm off to buy a fleece (And yes Richard... Fleece rhymes with Reece) that'll have him going for a while.

After that rant I suspect you're all wondering whether or not we made it to Rottnest..... we did.
But, only one ferry was going at 7:30 in the mourn from a place called Freemantle and you'd have suspected with a name like that that the bus wouldn't have cost anything, but to Gareth's surprise it cost 3.60 per person and don't even get him started about the price of the Freemantle ferry!!

We had to set off at the wee early hours of 5:30 in the am with full back packs and a tear in our eye (or was that the rain?) Said our goodbyes to Johnsnest and said hello to Rottnest (which actually means in dutch a whales vagina - or maybe Ratts nest, yes I think that's the correct translation)

We made it to the ferry with an hour to spare thanks to Alice's stressing / organisational skills. So after hanging out on the dock of the bay watching the ships coming in and going back out again, we proceeded to board after being bored.

The crossing if we put it mildly was rough as a quokkas arse. At the last count 25 people had gone down with sea-sickness and Gareth was frantically trying to make Alice the 26th.

Rottnest is famous for its Quokka's
They are very cute.
Que pictures.....

 

  

  

That is until they start trying to get in your tent (and sometimes succeeding), eating your mosquito coils (even when lit) and ambushing any attempt at food preparation!!  QUOKKA NO!!

Spent 3 days with the quokka's in the wind and rain, but saw some of the most breathtaking views. With Super sweet huge waves crashing onto brilliantly white sandy beaches, and hardly a whisper of other human life on the island.
Walked around the island and clocked up a massive 40 miles on Alice's mobile phone come pedometer in 2 days (Garths Arse chaffed) (Alice: *sigh*).
And astonishingly the Current Bite Count is Alice 6 and Gareth 4 (but one nasty one on his ankle).

We can't summarise in words so here are some lovely pictures of Gareths arse.

just kidding

Some lovely picture highlights of Rottnest.... including one of Gareth getting attacked by a pelican, see if you can spot it.

 

  

  

  

  

To summarise.

We walked a lot, and this was accompanied by a variety of animals, which Alice had to photograph (see pic of her lying down) which made every walk twice as long as it should have been. But we had fun and the stove worked a treat, even in the choppy weather.

Off up the coral coast next!  More blog up dates to follow. 

Penned 14th September, posted 16th September

Blog off.

A and G xxxx