Wednesday, February 16, 2011

16th Feb - Pics day 1 PORT ARTHUR

My first view of the infamous Port Arthur

Isle of the Dead where over 1100 convicts and army personnel and families are all buried

Port Arthur from our cruise ferry

Memorial Cross for all the victims massacred at Port Arthur by crazed gunman in 1996

Michael paying his respects to all those who lost their lives in the massacre

Loz also paying respects to their memories

Tiny exercise yard for those who were in the ''separate'' prison (solitary confinement.... locked in small cell alone 23 hrs a day and out 1 hr, with hood over head even then so no one can see or recognise them.

Even in church, they were kept separate from one another (note Michael's head in one of the tiny booths.)

in one of the solitary corridors .... Michael outside the cells. (went back in there last night in the dark on the ghost tour .... bloody spooky!!!!)

Loz preaching up in the pulpit

Michael preaching the Word

Loz in the ruins of the old Hospital

from the hospital looking to the harbour

from the Watchtower and guardhouse


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