WA Regional Command’s Port Harbour Coastal Class V1 vessel Rottnest Island has j…

WA Regional Command’s Port Harbour Coastal Class V1 vessel Rottnest Island has just completed a three-day patrol to the spectacular Abrolhos Islands off the mid-west coast.
The Abrolhos group consists of 122 islands spread over 100 kilometres north to south, approximately 60-80 kilometres west of Geraldton.
Its rich history includes the shipwreck of the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia in 1629 and the bloody mutiny and massacre that followed.
More recently, the Abrolhos’s treacherous reefs claimed the yacht Zero which was found to be carrying approximately 900 kilograms of cocaine and ecstasy.
These days, the Abrolhos Islands are best known as the seasonal capital of WA’s rock lobster industry, and a haven for nature lovers,…