For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.

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Another time I got a beach towel and plastic water bottle emblazoned with the Forbes logo.

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With the day waning, Jeanne and I parked our Mitsubishi Outlander, grabbed a blanket and a bottle of Margaret River wine and walked to the beach.

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