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RE: Last Trip to Giant Rat Island
We have a very popular holiday destination in western Australia Rott Nest Island.
Rottnest was named in 1696 by Willem de Vlamingh, a Dutch explorer, who named the island Rats' Nest due to the many large rats that he found on the island.
They were small marsupials, quokkas. They cover the island still. Last time I was there a friend of mine left her gate open and found one in her baby's bassinet.
And here I thought that I had made the place up-- this was supposed to be fiction!
😂.
This is a photo my husband took. They are everywhere and so placid. I almost didn't see this one, I nearly stepped on it.
I have a terrible rodent fear, they are marsupials not rodents, but they look enough like a rat for me to have had a fairly stressful stay.
https://steemit.com/photography/@azurejasper/steemitphotochallenge-entry-quokka
They do look a little ratty, but not the scary kind. That is a nice photo of one though, looks harmless enough!
Very harmless quite vulnerable, you honestly have to watch where you walk in case you step on them.
For someone scared of rodents going there is like graded exposure therapy, they are cute.
They don't move fast like mice and rats, they are like a small slow moving wallaby. Pretty cute.
The open ocean ferry crossing to get there 😷😵 , that is memorable in a traumatic way.