Port Arthur
November 11th 2012 Saying farewell to Hobart (and wishing we could stay an extra day or so), we drove the rental car to Port Arthur, one of the original penal colonies in Tasmania (or, in Van Deeman’s Land as it was called at the time). Now, when I say “penal colony,” bleak, Dickinsonian images may come to mind. But no. The Port Arthur penal colony sits on a beautiful clear bay surrounded by forested hills. On
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