Port Arthur

We spent a very cold but interesting day at Port Arthur, a penal colony from the 1850's at the tip of the Tasman Peninsular.

In its heyday this was a very built up place. There was everything here from Political prisoner cottages for the Young Ireland movement, a huge Prison complex, hospital, barracks, mental asylum, Commandant houses, churches, post office and boat sheds.

We found there records all the inmates amongst which there surnames which occur on Sarah's family ancestry but gladly not any Whitemans.

There was a lovely English Elm tree overlooking the bay.

 

 

We returned to Wendy and Peters for our last day in Tasmania taking in the views from their garden in the morning and then head back to Hobart packed up with one of Wendy's superb lunches which kept us going all day. We flew back to Melbourne for a transfer flight to Auckland New Zealand.