Port Arthur Tasmania

 We left Hobart behind and headed southeast in Tasmania to Port Arthur.

Port Arthur is a national historic site that was established in 1830.  It is on an island where prisoners from Europe were sent for hard labor.  Above is our guide who took us around the site on a walking tour.  He reminded us of Crocodile Dundee.

Here are a few of the prison ruins.  Port Arthur is on an island with deep cold water and conditions were harsh for convicts.

Many of the walls and structures are still standing,  Note the watch tower where a guard would shoot any prisoner seen out after hours and/or trying to escape.

Above is the Port Arthur church built by convict labor, that every prisoner was required to attend on Sunday.

Many partial structures are in solid shape.  Note the yellow building up above where the warden lived with his family.

Here is a restored sitting room in the warden's house.  We were told that the warden's wife would cultivate her flower garden while the convicts watched as they performed  slave labor below.

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