Friday, August 22, 2025 (continued)
The Oliver Hill Railway deposited us at the Oliver Hill Battery, one of the high points on Rottnest Island.
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One of two gun emplacements on Rottnest Island, this one
on Oliver Hill is said to be the only intact battery of its kind
in Australia, and one of five left in the world |
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| We began our tour of the World War II battery |
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| A stretcher is ready on the wall of the tunnel |
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| An escape hatch in the pump room |
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| The magazine room with armour-piercing shells |
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Cordite display for the smokeless propellant
(better than gunpowder) that generates the
high-pressure gas needed to fire the shell
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| Facsimile of the engine room |
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| Space for fuel storage tanks |
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| Exiting from the tunnels |
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| Kent is under the artillery gun by it swivel mechanism |
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| Barrel recoil space (KSS) |
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| Shell train |
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| Now at the gun loading area |
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| View of the barrel of the gun (KSS) |
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The 9.2-inch MK IV naval gun (1902, by the
Royal Gun Factory) was never fired in anger |
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| View from Oliver Hill |
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Next we boarded the motor coach to continue
our tour of Rottnest Island |
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| Passed the Pearce Lakes, source of salt |
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| Our included lunch box |
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| A sky diver above the beach at Army Jetty |
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Remains of a 1939 shipwreck (hopper barge Shark)
near Henrietta Rocks (KSS) |
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Watson's Glade is a mixed forest of Melaleuca lanceolata/
Tea Trees and Acacia littorea/Wattle Trees,
a rich habitat for birds |
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Parker Point overlooking Porpoise Bay;
being the end of winter, the beach is not crowded (KSS) |
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Jeannie's Lookout is another point where
tropical reefs are visible; view SW (KSS) |
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| Jeannie's Lookout view SE (KSS) |
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| Little Salmon Bay rock formations (KSS) |
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Coffee spot at the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service/
WRANS House (1936-1937) |
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Naval Signal Station (1943) was staffed by Women's Royal
Australian Naval Service (WRANS) personnel |
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Wadjemup Lighthouse (1896) is built on
the highest point of Rottnest Island |
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| Pandion haliaetus/Osprey nest (KSS) |
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| Crocodile Rock? (KSS) |
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| Navigation device: one of two red triangular lead marks.. |
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| ... which must be aligned vertically to navigate a channel |
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| Parakeet Bay Beach |
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| One of the finest sand beaches on Rottnest Island |
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| Geordie Bay Resort |
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| Rottnest Island Cemetery |
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Back in Perth across from the Train Station;
Grow Your Own (2011, by James Angus) is a nod
to the organic farming movement |
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iCity Visitor Kiosk (c 2016, by Coniglio
Ainsworth Architects) has been "wrapped" c 2022 |
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| Bibimpap dinner |
Next: Perth II.
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