This morning Kevin continued looking over the island in his hire car. I took a 4wd tour of some sites around the island. We visited Flagstaff for a view over the cliffs. We saw a felled Norfolk Island pine and you could see the dissection of it which showed the hollowness of the trunk. A good indication as to why they are not used as telegraph poles. Simon’s Water, the last 50 acre grant, almost at the end of Stockyard Road, has been a part of Norfolk Island’s history since the earliest convict days. In the first Penal Settlement, it was granted to a free settler, Daniel Standfield, who grew wheat and kept sheep there. There is a deep convict-built well on the land which is still used today. After the Pitcairners arrived in 1856, the
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