Fremantle

So the last day of our holidays and getting into the headspace to head for home tomorrow. But it turned out to be quite a busy day. Mick used the last of the tomatoes and onion to make train smash for breakfast and we have some for tomorrow.

We went to the Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum, a small but very impressive place that focussed on the Dutch presence in Western Australia as there were lots of shipwrecks here from their journeys to Indonesia as the Dutch East India Company. Interesting as really, they had been hanging around the west coast of Australia since the early 1600s, so we could all have still been stuck in the UK if the Dutch had made a bigger claim on New Holland before Cookie claimed it for England. There you go. A chunk of the shipwreck of the Batavia was incredible as well as the story of the way they discovered it and preserved it.
We then walked to the Fremantle Prison which was originally a convict built and housed jail which was only decommissioned in 1991. We went on the true crime stories tour (gotta love our senior concessions cards) which ran for just over an hour and heard lots of crazy information about real life inmates and a ghost or two. I balked at going into the gallows section – I went to walk in and then said, nup – and turned back around

A few drinks here and there, then back to the apartment for packing, and a delicious end-of-holiday dinner at an Italian restaurant.Read more