Splash. Today was the big swim. The mainstream media were commendable in being organised and having stuff for people to read today. The West...

Some outstanding cricketers have been born in WA. Many saw the light of day in the city, but quite a few are from the regions: Kim Hughes wa...

The big swim is looming. Next Saturday hundreds of people will set off from Cottesloe and ingest a lot of sea water while looking longingly ...

Ever heard of a Taubmans colour called Rottnest Orange? We saw this in an old copy of Meanjin, which is now the newest edition to grace the ...

Do you reckon Heath Ledger was ever on Rotto? Gosh we wish so. Being a Sandgroper, the odds of him visiting were pretty good. Heath uncertai...

More politicians and art on Rotto. We’re indebted to the WA Constitution Centre for these morsels of information about Admiral Sir Frederick...

‘Other MPs revealed the incident likely happened at a Liberal Party gathering at Rottnest about two years ago.’ Cheating at Scrabble? Fishin...

Much excitement in the Rotto Bloggo fortified compound this week: another primo boffo publication was added to the special-interest bookshel...

We almost choked on our latte this morning when we saw this Rottnest artefact online. Body on the Rocks is a novel set on Rotto. It’s two au...

Do you remember the armoured personnel carrier that careered through the ‘burbs and the city nearly 15 years ago? Rotto Bloggo was overseas ...

We were idling through Flickr photos today when the site prompted us to search for photos with the phrase rottnestisland instead of the bog-...

Rotto’s short, cute gregarious relatively small-headed macropods are no doubt still high-fiving each other over the departure of Western For...

One of Rotto Bloggo’s associates was sounding off about the State Government today, and for a moment we perceived a future Rottnest angle in...

Did you see the photo in The Age Online that a New Zealander supposedly took of a big shark? ‘Gary Porter said he asked friends to hold him ...

A few things in life are certain: the righteous dominance of the Australian cricket team. Strife in the Middle East. 98 per cent of the worl...

It would've been nice to have been on Rotto on the stinking hot Boxing Day: the most it got to was 38.1C, considerably cooler than the 4...

Looking for last-minute Xmas accomodation on Rotto? Check out eBay user 8616elaine: s/he has something at the Lodge : “Dec. 24-27 Lakeside a...

Rotto Bloggo is off to Hawaii for a couple of weeks, so there will be a brief interregnum between news of the beautiful island. We'll be...

What’s the crème de la phlegm of the beautiful island? The expensive goodies from the bakery? Red Rooter? The ridiculous rules at the pub? (...

A lot of people who come to this blog are looking for information about Leavers Week: they put things into Google like ‘rotto leavers 07’ an...