Port Arthur

Awesome nanny & poppy offered to have little people so that we could go to Port Arthur with Rees & Sarah. They had already been & thought we'd enjoy it more solo.

It would have been a HUGE day for the kids because we are tired. What a truly incredible place. It's nice to see money being re-invested back into preservation of some of Australia's original history. We also visited the "Island of the Dead" and "Pour Island". This was where juvenile justice first started in Australia. Island of the Dead was where 1100 Port Arthur residents were buried. There were not many headstones because the minister of the time believed that sinners in life should be forgotten in death. Therefore, only the wealthy or military had headstones. 

The remains of the hospital on the hill.

The Asylum for the criminally insane. If you weren't when you arrived...you certainly would have been by the time you left. The boys even went in the punishment cell...absolute darkness...not me though!!!

The church. All prisoners were made to attend church. It was part of their rehabilitation.

The Island of the Dead. Vegetation covers the headstones from a distance now.

A truly fabulous day out. A definite for the bucket list when in Tassie. 

I got home to an exhausted Tenae. She had cleaned the caravan & made lunch for the kids. She even had an afternoon nap. She told me "all I did was clean all day". I asked her if she'd like to swap family roles....her response...."no way" lol. Proud mummy...they even managed some school work. 

Keira even made a fairy garden :-)))