Little Salmon Bay
Sheltered snorkeling bay with a shallow, buoy-marked trail past limestone ledges and reef fish.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Little Salmon Bay on Rottnest Island, off Perth, starts with its own name: a bay the early settlers called after the fish they hauled from it. It follows the Australian salmon run that once filled these waters, and the coastal naming habits that marked the whole island the same plain way. From there it turns to what has replaced the fishing, the wrasse, scalyfins and rock lobster now living along the ten-buoy snorkel trail. Best attempted early, before the bay fills up with visitors.
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