Port Arthur part 2

As promised, here is the rest of the Port Arthur trip. That there ^^^ is the main prison I guess. We were supposed to be apart of this tour, but the tour guide had the most dry annoying voice and all of us kept bursting out laughing. I couldn't even look at the guy because he sounded so funny; it's hard to describe in words but he was sort of like Buzz Killington from Family Guy. This is the Prisooooon sight of Poooort Aaaaaaaarthuuuur. Many priiiisoooooners WERE kept here...

Heeeere we have a typical prisoner ceeeeell. They were veeeeery small and miserable... AS you can imagiiiiiine. Prisoners on the bottom... floor were shaaaaackled in iiiiiiiiirons.

I don't know what this building was for, maybe the gaurd quarters or something. Everything burned down here at Port Arthur, but nobody seems to know why or how. Oh, did I mention it was haunted? Dun Dun Duuuuun!

This reminds me of a really bad joke. "My Grandfather died in the concentration camps. Yeah, he fell off a gaurd tower. " Ok, it's a REALLY bad joke. Moving on..

This is the Governor's house. Apparently he was only 3 feet tall.

As part of your admission fee you get a free ferry ride around the Port Arthur... port.

This is the Isle of the Dead, and for good reason to. There are around 1100 people burried here, mostly prisoners I am sure. And it's also haunted! Dun dun dunnnn.

Bumble Bees get free ferry rides as well.

This is the first Juvenille prison for ruffian misbehaving young boys. Not a place you really want to go in 19th century Australia, because it's on an island surrounded by cliffs and the closest place to go is the Isle of the Dead, which is haunted as previously mentioned. After that is the Port Arthur prison, housing some pretty nasty inmates. The raggamuffin children were put to work here making shoes or something like that. Today it would look like a nice place to build a house.

This here is 'The Church'. Not supprisingly it burned down as well as the prison. Oh, and it is also haunted, imagine that. Three inmates decided to form a suicide pact within the church one day. One killed another with a shovel, then the third killed him with a shovel, and I don't know what happened to the last guy. He probably came to his senses.

Lovely open air ceilings in the church.

One of the church bells is missing. If you have seen it, please return it to Port Arthur, Tasmania, they really miss it.

Rory is checking out some shackles while I am smelling some prison farts.

So that was Port Arthur. When you buy a ticket they give you a card which at the end of the tour they have a list of what 'your' inmate did to get to prison and what happened to them. My guy was pretty typical, he got caught breaking and entering, was sent to Port Arthur for life were he worked at the Coal Mine, he tried to escape but was caught and given 75 lashes, he tried escaping again and they killed him. One man went to Port Arthur for stealing a hankercheif and got ten years. Pretty much anything you got caught for back in the day sent you to Port Arthur it seems.

These are some cool cliffs by a place called Remarkable Caves. They were pretty... remarkable.

So there you go, the Port Arthur trip. I hope you enjoyed the pictures, and I will be sure to write another post when I have something interesting worth saying.