The scope of the spectacle is hard to capture in photos. Only a fraction of the boats there in the perhaps ten groupings of boats could be captured in any one photo.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Boxing Day at Rottnest Island
Just offshore from Fremantle is Rottnest Island, so called because the original Dutch visitors mistook the small and numerous indigenous marsupial for rats. A Boxing Day tradition here in Fremantle and Perth, originating 14 years ago, is for boaters to gather in one of the bays of Rottnest Island and raft up for a day of sun, alcohol, and partying. Twenty of us from the Pirates Backpackers headed out join in.
The scope of the spectacle is hard to capture in photos. Only a fraction of the boats there in the perhaps ten groupings of boats could be captured in any one photo.
The scope of the spectacle is hard to capture in photos. Only a fraction of the boats there in the perhaps ten groupings of boats could be captured in any one photo.
