Day 6. Certainly packing loads of touristy stuff in with Robyn & Arthur in the week they are spending with us.
Spending the day at Port Arthur. Bob & I used our "Ticket of Leave" ticket we bought when we came here with Elizabeth & Norman couple weeks ago. $6 each & valid for 2 years
The Penitentiary 1857 the two lower floors contained 136 cells for "prisoners of bad character".
Top floor provided space for 480 better behaved convicts to sleep in bunks
Shipwright house 1834 near the Dockyard slipway
During its 15 years of operation it produced 16 large decked vessels & around 150 small open boats
Isle of the Dead. 1833
Between 1833 & 1877 around 1100 people were buried at the settlement's cemetery. The Isle of Dead is the final resting place for military & civil officers, their wives & children & convicts
Cute Echidna
Now you see me & now you don't
We were just walking along the pathway & spotted him/her
Memorial garden
On Sunday 28 April 1996, a tragic chapter was added to Port Arthur's history when a gunman took the lives of 35 people & physically wounded 19 others in & around the Port Arthur historic site
The Memorial garden incorporates the shell of the Broad Arrow Cafe where 20 people were killed during the massacre & has been created as a place of remembrance & reflection
The Church represents the important role of religion in convict reform at Port Arthur.
Up to 1100 people attended compulsory services here each Sunday.
Much of the decorative stonework & joinery in the church was crafted by the boys from the Point Puer Boy's prison
When the bells started to toll, I got a very cold feeling & goose bumps & needed a cuddle & hug from mys sister Robyn
Roman Catholic Chaplain's House 1843
The Seperate Prison was designed to deliver a new method of punishment, of reforming the convicts through isolation & comtemplation. Convicts were locked for 23 hours each day in single cells.
Here they ate, slept & worked, with just 1 hour a day allowed for exercise, alone, in a high-walled yard
Each convict was placed in a cubicle to attend church, this was so they could have no contact with other convicts, could only focus on the preacher
This was another place where I got the cold feeling again, when the choir started singing.
I had to leave the room SPOOKY !!!
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