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20 km off the west coast of Fremantle floats the sandy Rottnest Island. Unlike Fraser Island in Queensland, it also has several limestone rock areas, but otherwise it is just one big sand blow, 11km long and 4.5km wide. There are plenty of lakes with very high salt content in the interior and beautiful coral reefs enclosing the island’s many beaches. Vegetation is limited to grasslands and shrubs, the exception being the tourist area of Thomson Bay, where palm trees and eucalypts offer welcome shade.
There are fabulous beaches, coves, coral reefs and limestone formations, particularly on the southern side. The colours have to be seen to be believed: the ink-blue ocean; the aquamarine shallow reefs of the coastal waters; the blindingly white fine sand; and the vibrant green grasslands; all together painting the incredible outdoors.
You can stop at Porpoise Bay, Parker Point, Little Salmon Bay, and cycle parallel with the long beach of Fairbridge Bluff. The uphill road inland then brings you to the highest point on the island, the Wadjemup Lighthouse, overseeing the coastline and salt lakes towards Thomson Bay.
The winding, up and down ride passes by the Green Island, a tiny outcrop a hundred metres out in the ocean; Mary Cove and Rocky Bay, featuring fantastic coral patterns; and finally dispatches you on Cape Vlamingh.
The ocean bed there looks like honeycombs, so regular in shape and different in colour the rocky and coral formations are. Waves are strangled by a sudden rise of the ocean floor and they are breaking spectacularly away in the distance.
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20 km off the west coast of Fremantle floats the sandy Rottnest Island. Unlike Fraser Island in Queensland, it also has several limestone rock areas, but otherwise it is just one big sand blow, 11km long and 4.5km wide. There are plenty of lakes with very high salt content in the interior and beautiful coral reefs enclosing the island’s many beaches. Vegetation is limited to grasslands and shrubs, the exception being the tourist area of Thomson Bay, where palm trees and eucalypts offer welcome shade.
There are fabulous beaches, coves, coral reefs and limestone formations, particularly on the southern side. The colours have to be seen to be believed: the ink-blue ocean; the aquamarine shallow reefs of the coastal waters; the blindingly white fine sand; and the vibrant green grasslands; all together painting the incredible outdoors. You can stop at Porpoise Bay, Parker Point, Little Salmon Bay, and cycle parallel with the long beach of Fairbridge Bluff. The uphill road inland then brings you to the highest point on the island, the Wadjemup Lighthouse, overseeing the coastline and salt lakes towards Thomson Bay.
The winding, up and down ride passes by the Green Island, a tiny outcrop a hundred metres out in the ocean; Mary Cove and Rocky Bay, featuring fantastic coral patterns; and finally dispatches you on Cape Vlamingh. The ocean bed there looks like honeycombs, so regular in shape and different in colour the rocky and coral formations are. Waves are strangled by a sudden rise of the ocean floor and they are breaking spectacularly away in the distance.