Rottnest Island, Western Australia

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Rottnest Island, Western Australia

“Help!” I called.  I was seated on the edge of a raised patio, eating a sandwich, when suddenly a furry creature the size of a large house cat climbed onto my lap. The animal sat on his hind legs, his delicate finger-like digits on my chest. He was trying to reach my sandwich, which I was holding up in the air. Of course, I was in no danger. After all, I was on idyllic Rottnest Island, known by  the indigenous Nyoongar people as Wadjemup, in the…