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Nullaki Peninsula Western Australia

“I WOULDN’T GO there,” warned the crusty old gentleman chatting in the WA town of Denmark about nearby Nullaki Peninsula. “Somebody got bitten by a blue-ringed octopus!” I was shocked because I’d walked on the reef there many times wearing just thongs.

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