This is a freaky one...

This is the 'dissecting table' in the surgeon general's house on the site at Port Arthur. This is where they would peform autopsies (spelling?). There's a big chimney thing at one end of the table where the convicts would ave to push ash down. The ash would fall onto the floor with the purpose of absorbing all the blood and bodily fluids spurting and dripping from the dissection table....yuksville! The skull you can see is the skull of a small mammal which was left over when 'Most Haunted' TV programme came to film here. They just leave it on the table to make things even more eerie.

....you won't be surprised to learn that the ghost tour wasn't scary.....

February 12th 2006
Hi lovely readers - here's our last Taz blog. So, there are two things that this blog is about: 1) Visit to the Tasman Peninsula (bottom right as you look at the map) to experience the Port Arthur historical penal site (convicts, not mens' bits). 2) Trip up the top of Mount Wellington on a sunny but windy day. In keeping with our recent tradition of being Blog Lazy, we're mostly doing ... read more

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