Sarah Island

From the Gordon River Heritage site, we had lunch and made our way back to Sarah Island where we had a guided tour of the hardest of the penal colonies in Tasmania, before Port Arthur site was established.
Sarah Island was for repeat criminal offenders who continued to offend while serving time in Van Diemens Land. It was a fascinating tour given by one of the guides who also promoted the show we are seeing on Wednesday called The Ship That Never Was... more about that on Wednesday.
The tour was amazing and we learnt a lot about the people and the culture of the penal settlement, while intermittent showers kept us on our toes.
After the tour of Sarah Island we headed back across Macquarie Harbour back to Strahan, arriving back by 2.45pm.Read more