A grey and misty day today in Eastern Tassie. Changeable like Scotland! Drove down from Coles Bay to Port Arthur to visit the historic convict prison. Really interesting to see one of the key places in Australian history, and also in British “justice”. The “Separate Prison” was the most interesting bit, linking the ideas from Pentonville in the UK to Pennsylvania and Tasmanian prison systems. A really good book on this is “The Fatal Shore” by Robert Hughes.

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