The site hospital, destroyed by fire in the late 1800s. The prisoners would go in here with a sore head or a scratch and come out a week later in a box - so poor was the hygene, and disease was rife.
....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
Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Port Arthur Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
Hullo!! We did a big fat trip a wee while ago covering Bonnie Scotland (our home), France, Spain, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and China. Then we came home and had a lovely baby girl called Beth and Alan went back to work. Beth is 14 months old now (I know - where does the time go??) and we haven't been anywhere exotic for yonks. Consequently we are now 'dormant bloggers' which makes us feel a bit dreary, so we better get our skates on and find some good places to visit and report on pronto!!.................... full info