Sunday, January 07, 2007
30th Dec 06
We went to Barrack Street Jetty by mini-coach but it's very comfortable. Our coach captain, Philip,a very dashing young man in his 20s i guess, brought us to the jetty and would be bringing us back to Perth later on. We boarded the high-speed ferry,'Star Flyte' towards Rottnest Island. The ferry was terrible when it's travelling along the Indian Ocean, my bro, sisters and me felt sick. I'd tavelled on ferry for abt 3 times already in Australia and this was the first time we got seasickness. We were so greatful tt we had arrived and after alighting, we were introduced by a tour host, Colin,there. We first went to the lighthouse alone without the tour host becoz he has to bring the other couple to some place. We climbed the 155 steps lighthouse and viewed the magnificient views below from the lighthouse. Then, we returned back to where we first boarded the mini coach up to the lighthouse, and headed towards the museum. After tt, we went to the Salthouse, there's not much to see only photos of the past. Later, we went for our buffet lunch, it's not tt bad, at least it's much better than those lunches we had few days ago. There's barranmundi, very delicious, a kind of fish. After eating, we still had some time before going for the reef & wreck semi-submersible boat tour, where we could view the fishes and two shipwrecks underwater in the boat without getting wet!!! cool huh?! haha... It lasted for abt one and a half hrs, then we went to the cafe to have some afternoon tea, we ordered cappuccinos, hot choc and some sliced cakes. I saw this handsome waiter and guess wat? We saw a Quokka! It's so cute and adorable, how i wish i could bring it home. A Quokka looks like a big rat and a small kangaroo... well, it's a mixture of this two mammals... it's hard to explain... and the Quokka just hopped around the cafe!!! We rested for awhile before going back to the jetty. It was VERY windy and we reboarded the Star Flyte back to Barrack Street Jetty in Perth at 5pm. Then went to Shun Fong Restaurant(Chinese),which was very near the jetty, for dinner. The food there was quite nice and can view the seagulls and the ocean and in the water, u could see jellyfishes!!! (The 1st photo was taken at the Rottnest Island and the other photo is a Quokka)