Friday, January 20, 2006
Port Arthur
Our final day began (as all days should!) with a visit to the Cadbury factory on the edge of Hobart. We’d read that the tour was popular, and that booking was essential, but we weren’t expecting to have to go at 7:30am!!After a healthy chocolate breakfast we headed southeast to Tasmania’s most famous non-natural attraction, Port Arthur. The prison complex here opened in 1830 and operated for the next 47 years.
Spending a day looking round an old prison may not sound very exciting, but there is a huge a amount of information to take in and it’s done just as well as Alcatraz (there is also an ‘Audio Tour’ here but we didn’t do it). Obviously, it is also a lot more relevant to British history. It seems that many of the staff and guides are descendants of men who spent time here, so their knowledge of the subject is fairly comprehensive.
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