Anne-Marie and I spent today on Rottnest Island. We caught the ferry from Fremantle and hired bikes from Rottnest Island when we got there. We didn't realise before we arrived that, although our ferry back doesn't leave until 7pm, the bikes have to be back by 3:30pm. So, we only had the bikes for about five hours and it's a big island so we didn't make it very far around. What we did see of it, though, was beautiful. While we were in the bike shed being fitted for our bikes, it started raining and it was quite heavy for a few minutes but it had passed by the time we got outside and it was fine for most of the day after that. We saw lots of quokkas, the marsupials that were the inspiration for
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