Museum visit part 1

We purchased a museum pass which gave us unlimited access to 4 museums plus 2 tag along tours which was a guide taking us through 2 of the museums, giving us an overview before the museums opened at 11am. The Kingston area is known as the capital of Norfolk Island but the main business and shopping area is in Burnt Pine. Kingston is where the museums are as it was the original settlement was. Today we visited the Commissariat (government store) and 9 Quality Row (period house of the time). Interesting stories. We will join another tour tomorrow morning for the other museums.
After our museum visits we headed down the road to bloody bridge. The story goes that while the convicts were building the bridge, they killed the guard and buried him in the bridge. His body was discovered because blood was oozing out between the stones. This may or may not have happened, but it makes a good story anyway.
We wandered through the cemetery - the oldest headstone from 1798. As mentioned before, burials are free on Norfolk Island.
As it was a nice day, we headed up to Mt Pitt for some fantastic views of the island and finished the day with a swim in Emily Bay - very safe, very clear water.もっと詳しく