Happy Thursday guys!
Can I share with you an unforgettable experience from Rottnest Island, besides meeting one of the world's most sweetest creatures? It has to do with these people who you see right below, this lovely group of five.
During mid-morning on my first day at Rottnest Island, I was walking from the guest services building back to my cabin to go take a shower. Both looking pretty un-presentable and feeling rather gross from flying on various planes for 20 hours, I was heading back, eager to get cleaned up. In fact, under my sweater I was still in PJs. You get what I probably looked like. On the way back though, I found a man who was on his computer and we immediately began having a conversation, and seeing that I had a camera he was open to letting me photograph him. From there, I couldn't help but be curious as to what his friend was cooking on the grill over to his right, so they let me into the front porch to talk and photograph what was being cooked: the fish that this man Baden who I was first talking to had caught in the morning out at sea. Baden is the man you see below :).
Shortly afterward the wife of the man cooking on the grill came out and kindly invited me in for breakfast. After a few times of invitation I couldn't continue to say no, so I decided to accept their kind gesture, and breakfast with them I had. They were so welcoming and kind to me, and at one point I just had to let myself let go of how I was feeling about myself at the moment because of my appearance (sort of gross) and enjoyed this lovely breakfast. Most of them being locals around the Perth, they shared with me the history of the island, about themselves, and about Australia. It was a lovely experience that I will never forget. That morning I learned an important lesson about being open to opportunities regardless of the situation you are in, because you never know when something good will come your way, regardless of whether you feel ready or not.
So what were they all doing visiting Rottnest Island? The cute thing is that the couple on the very left from the first photo you saw were celebrating their 15th anniversary, and they wanted to invite their friends to join them. This anniversary tradition they kept up since they first got married and went on their honeymoon ^^. Cute isn't it?
See you next week!
M Kat