Parker Point
Marked underwater snorkel trail through a coral garden thriving far south of its usual range.
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Parker Point on Rottnest Island, off Perth, is where a warm ocean current has pushed coral hundreds of kilometres past where the sea should be too cold for it to survive. The guide follows that anomaly from the Leeuwin Current itself to the island's long habit of turning what's underwater into something visitors can actually read, starting with a nineteen-eighty first for the whole Southern Hemisphere. Bring a mask and follow the marked trail out past the rocks.
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