Rottnest Island Beach

Well, one of them.
It's an Island, so there are beaches all around.
These photos are from the one right near where the ferry dropped us off and then picked us up again.

As we sat under a tree eating lunch, I noticed the weathervane.....

it has a Quokka on it!

R and I walked along behind some of the accommodation buildings, then turned to the beach and walked back along the sand and rocks to the pier where we'd wait for the ferry.

lo and behold! there were pelicans. They followed us most of the way back to the pier.

Halfway along, I turned back and took this postcard shot.

Then I started seeing smaller things.

like this coral

and that coral

and a pretty shell.

I saw piles of seaweed....

and smaller pieces of a different type of seaweed.

do you all know those round blobs of sea jelly that get washed up on shore?
They're clear, mostly, but the one I saw wasn't...

it had a face! something was embedded in it and I just had to take a photo to prove I'd seen it.

there were plenty of rock pools, most of them had little kids playing in them.

I loved these channels cut into the rocky edge by rivulets of water.

walking along the pier...

spotting the ferry coming to take us back to the mainland,

watching as she swung around...

and bumped up to the dock.

it had been a lovely day, but I was ready to leave and get home to R and V's house.