Tassie Photos - part 1

At last, some photos from Tassie!

Of all the many positive adjectives I might have used about Tasmania, this wouldn't have been one of them.

Port Arthur, penal colony and place of secondary punishment: a beautiful, remote place today, but one with a gruesome and sickening past...

The Penitentiary, Port Arthur

The Penitentiary, Port Arthur, as seen from a boat

The Model Prison represented a shift in the mid C19 from physical punishment and torture to attempts to 'reform' the prisoner by breaking them mentally by locking then in solitary confinement and calling them only by number. The Rev Newell delivers a sermon to the inmates from the prison chapel.

Prisoners were isolated in individual cubicles to prevent any communication when in the chapel, and normally would have been hooded at all times outside their cell.

Photos of some of the men who 'lived' in the Model Prison at Port Arthur. Within a few years of its opening, it became necessary to build an asylum next to it as many of the inmates went insane.

The church spire at Port Arthur. In the early years the whole community would have worshiped here.

This photo speaks for itself. Paterson St, apparently, leads to the public toilets.

Yes, there is a place in Tassie called Patersonia. It was a bit shit, to be honest. Does anyone know what is going on here?

Andy and his $5 raincoat at Dove Lake, near Cradle Mountain.

Wineglass Bay, eastern Tasmania

Evandale, an apparently "English" village in central Tasmania.