Port Arthur

After picking up my car I headed to Port Arthur which is an old penal settlement. It's mostly ruins but it was interesting to get the history.

They made it out to be a horrible place but the audio guide I was listening to, didn't sound that bad... don't get me wrong, it would have been bad, but nothing was great back then. It also sounded kinda progressive in some ways, with introducing a kids prison and solitary confinement rather than being flogged. Maybe things were bad there, but it was a prison.

You could see the cells were small, they had an 'isle of the dead' where people were buried, the church but where they had individual pods as they were supposed to be in solitary confinement, also a creepy doll.Read more