On Thursday there will be an eye in the sky above the beautiful island: an unmanned aerial vehicle will be droning - ha! - around Rottnest.
It will be patrolling a beach patrol, searching for a man overboard and identifying pirates and people.
Pirates on/around Rotto? You better believe it.
This story in The West a couple of weeks ago had all the details.
The Cyber Eye V1 is a "...fully autonomous craft, which has a 7m wing span and can reach up to 160kmh, is fitted with a day/night video camera capable of reading a car licence plate from a height of 150m and can transmit real-time images back to a hand-held monitor."
Is V1 the happiest name for a flying object?
We look forward to this innovative device being used to detect imperfections in the mini-golf course, identifying naughty beach drinkers, and searching for quokka abuse.
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