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    Prison entrance by night...spooky!!
    Prison wing...we finished tour at 6pm...After underground tour with tourguide Chris, he was fabulous, been doing job for 13 yrs...Freo wharf, all things nautical...Round house, oldest building at wharf...used for executionsFreo has the most pubs and bars for an Australian townAbsolutely beautiful pub building in Freo, and huge...I liked this building from an architectural point of view...outside is heritage listed,...so this was kept and they build office suites inside...very cool!Beautiful buildings once again in Old Freo...Don't know what they do in there....🤣Walking to Cottesloe Beach for a fish'n'chip lunch...Pleasant Beach, ate fish'n'chips on the grass and relaxed in the sun...Sunbakers on beach...it's getting warmer...

    Perth to Prison

    Jul 14–16, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Beautiful freecamp in Jarrahdale. From here we explored what we could in the surrounding areas. Limited time as we are now on a much tighter time schedule!! We will definitely have to come back when we have no time restrictions.
    The highlight of our time here was definitely the underground Fremantle Prison tour. We climbed down 20 metres of ladder, attached by a safety harness, and explored by foot and by boat the underground water tunnels.
    Western Australia has always had a shortage of water, and water was needed by Fremantle and also the ships coming into 'Freo' port and there just happened to be a large supply directly under the Prison... so in the 19th century they put the prisoners in shackles, to dig down 20 metres through limestone, and to build the labyrinth of tunnels. Now, that is hard labour. This water supplied the town and port of Freo for 3 decades.
    (No prisoners escaped during the building of these tunnels!!)
    The Prison closed in 1991, the tunnels were restored, and a year later it became a major tourist attraction!!    Read more