Day 5: Port Arthur

So today we went to Port Arthur. This is how it started. I woke up at half past 5 played my DS. Then I went and had breakfast (coco pops, again. Only way to start the day!). After I played basketball on the wii with Erin. Then we went to Port Arthur. It was an hour drive but we survived (just….). When we got there we got bronze tickets which got us a forty minute walking tour and a twenty minute cruise on a ferry. At the start we just wandered around and looked at the old prison ruins which were used for secondary punishments. Then we went off for the tour. It was twenty minutes of the walking tour and we got as far as 100 metres. Yeah, not so much walking. Mum went and took us to the old cottages that belonged to people like doctors. There was one cottage that belonged to someone that came after the prison era. Then we went on the ferry cruise. On it I learnt that 200 years ago kids as old as 4 could legally work. Also kids as old as 7 are trialled as an adults. Dad asked why I didn’t have a job yet. I think he was joking. Then we went to the separate prison. In the separate prison you could see what it was like living in it. You had no communication with other people (that means no talking. I reckon my Mum would last 5 minutes) and even in church each person had their own little place in the shape of a rectangular prism. Then after that we went to lunch (my favourite part). After lunch we had a small look around at more cottages (including the commandant’s house). On the way home we went to the Tassie Devil habitat. There was also kangaroos, wallabies, pademelons, birds and a quoll. Then also on the way home we stopped at a blowhole that didn’t have enough waves to work. Then we got home. And that brings us to now.