Western Australia

Rottnest Island

By Tiz Me 321 (Download original document here.)

(Editors Note: This looks a bit like Rottnest Island but I could only find one of a Bass Strait island. Check out the original document by clicking the link above to see more photos from Rottnest.)
If you like beaches and bays then Rottnest Island is the place for you. Rottnest Island has 63 beaches and 20 bays. Rottnest Island beaches were awarded top Australian beaches by Australia prestigious travel guide (Explore Australia 2007.) Rottnest Island is home to some of the finest beaches in the world. Its turquoise water is great for things like swimming, surfing, and snorkeling and diving.

If your not into getting so wet and you still want to see the under water sea animals and history why not take a boat tour where you can see amazing reef formations a 100 year old ship wreck some tropical fish you might even see a dolphin or a turtle .

While all the animals at sea are amazing there are heaps of cool and amazing animals on land such as the Quokka which is an animal which can’t found any where else but on Rottnest Island, there are also peacocks, pelicans and lots more.

If you’re going with the family why not go to Brett Headys Family Fun Park. It’s opposite the Rottnest Island lodge. There’s lots of fun for everyone including an 18 hole putt putt golf course, trampoline, and kiosk in case you get hungry and much more.

If you’re interested in history then why not try the vlamingh lookout. It was named after a Dutch navigator Williem de Vlamingh who landed on Rottnest Island in 1696, Olivier hill battery, Rottnest museum and many other places on Rottnest Island.

If you want to bring something back for friends and
family try the Rottnest Island gift shop.

Wave Rock

By Jess the Juicebox (Download original document here.)

The wave rock Western Australia is 14meters high and 110meters long. The Wave on Hyden Rock is one of Australia's most famous landforms, a giant surf wave of multicoloured granite about to crash onto the bush below. Stand under it and feel rock power from over 2,700 million years ago, before dinosaurs roamed the earth!
The wave rock is 350km east from Perth that is about 4 hours. Technically the aboriginal people were the first to inhabit the area and you can still see there handprints on wave rock today. It was not until the 1860's did the first white people came which were the sandalwood cutters.

Red Rocks in WA

By Red Rox (Download original document here.)

The Red Rocks in W.A are very! OLD.
The rocks are magnetic and are red in colour because the iron in the rocks rusts.
A man called Lang Hancock was flying over the area and saw the red rocks. He started up a mine and became very rich.
Hematite is a mineral form of iron oxide one of several iron oxides. Hematite crystallies in the rhombohedra system and it has the same crystal structure as limonite and as corundum.
Hematite and ilmenite form a complete solid solution at temperatures above 950oC. We now process the red rocks into iron and steal different places around Australia.