Restup on Rottnest Photo 2

Restup on Rottnest

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December 6th 2010
A nice Jetstar flight back from Melbourne to Perth, well actually quite a bumpy ride as we came back in but it was good fun playing cards up the back of the plane with fellow passengers, don't get enough of that sort of thing at home. Well it would never happen on the tube. Only a few days left around Perth but I did not want to waste it especially as the weather was tops so decided to spend a ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Rottnest Island

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more