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Shark Bay, Geraldton, Abrolhos January 2008 |
Rottnest Island High populations of Dugongs, dolphins, turtles and seabirds. |
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| Summertime - at Rotto - and the living is easy & tasting so fine |
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WILLEM DE VLAMINGH, a native of Vlieland, Holland, and skipper for the Dutch East India Co., was sent out from Holland with three ships in May 1696 to look for survivors of a ship that was thought to have been wrecked on the west coast of Australia. They sighted the coast on 29 December and anchored off Rottnest Island at about 31° 47' S. On 31 December de Vlamingh went ashore, a few days later men were sent to the mainland, where they found traces of Aboriginals. A river with numerous black swans was called Swaanerivier and de Vlamingh rowed some ten miles (16 km) up it. On 13 January 1697 the vessels weighed anchor and sailed north. The ships made slow progress, parties were regularly sent ashore as a careful survey was made of the coast. (Capt. Cook discovered Australia's East Coast in 1770) |
 We wandered ashore and found paradise |
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| Banyandah, the lone sailboat amongst the power fleet at Geordie Bay | |
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| Taking a convenient all day bus pass, we toured the tiny island | |
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| Superb clear water tempted us into swimming off sandy bays, of which there were many | |
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 Fragile encrusted roots exposed off Vera Rocks <<<=== Propoise Bay and Parker Point |
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