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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen S. Moore" data-source="post: 1780405" data-attributes="member: 22662">You are probably best not to visit Rottnest Island on a Saturday, anyway. It was a lot quieter for people when I went there on a weekday in July 2006 ("mid winter", 'tis true!) than when I went on a Saturday in November 2008. The relative crowds at Thomson Bay Settlement on the 2008 visit did not affect my birdwatching, however. Indeed, I walked south around Phillip Point, which is at the SE end of Thomson Bay and was a good place for terns, and had the beautiful white beach just round the corner to myself! Just offshore are a couple of small islands, on one of which a pair of ospreys was nesting. I wondered if rock parrots would be there, but I "dipped"!Allen</blockquote>