Another must-do - although not cheap - is a visit to Rottnest Island (or Rotto). You get there by boat from Perth, Freemantle or the Hillarys, to a place almost without cars that is mainly a nature reserve with large shallow salt lakes in its centre and a whole series of beautiful bays around its periphery. It has a holiday camp feel, with groupings of near identical huts - left over from its penal colony and military days? - luggage transported by electric trucks, and tourists walking or cycling by.
It also has quokkas, a small marsupial not found in many places - hence its European name, since early Dutch travellers mistook them for rats. Despite the ferry there being packed, I rode off on my bicycle and later had the salt lakes and their bird life all to myself.
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