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The home? / prison at Port Arthur of one of 'The United Irishmen', Smith O'Brien, a Protestant and an MP. Port Arthur is a very powerful place, look it up. Beautiful, sinister both historically, and recently. The most exhausting human-created place I have ever been, in one of the most beautiful natural settings. More of PA later. Heaven and HELL.
Ducks below Richmond Bridge.
Richmond Bridge. Oldest convict (indentured servant*) built bridge in Australia. Still in use from 1825.
*? FIOFYSelves.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 04/12/14 04/12/14 04/12/14 04/12/14Follow Ups:
When I was in Tasmania we had a lucky escape.
We were heading for Port Arthur in late April '96 but got sidetracked by a little museum and some other things along the way and never made it.
Possibly a close call...
"Originally sentenced to death, Smith O'Brien and other members of the Irish Confederation were transported to Van Diemen's Land.[25]"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_O%27Brien
Click below for an overview, if you want to.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 04/12/14
Spent 3 weeks driving around there in a pop top Toyota camper. That bridge is similar to the one in Ross, a cool little town with a great church and the bridge of course.
I spend 3 days camped at the end of that bridge, so very peaceful and no tourists. I went there when the airlines were on strike and had booked passage on the Bass Straights ferry months before. I will never cross that straight in a boat again.
More pictures on the web of Richmond. Ross is a bit further North, but not far away.Some of the zillions are of places that I took photos of.
Click below.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 04/12/14 04/12/14
and called a cab to go eat. Asked the cabby for a great place to go and said that because of the airline strike there were no people visiting and maybe...maybe...he stopped at a small Victorian house and left me in the cab while he went to the door. Came back and said usually it is a 6 week wait, but they could host me. Turned out it was one of the family that owned Mrs. Muirs on the wharf. This guy had broken off and started this tiny place with 3 tables in each room and a bar that sat 2. The bar walls were covered with autographs and he invited me to leave mine. When he gave me a menu it was simply a book of Australian shell fish. I enjoyed that dinner so much that I made reservations for 2 lunches and 2 dinners the following days. I had a different Oz shell fisg each day, most were things I had never heard of and all were delicious. No signs outside, you had to be brought there, great little place....
A few years ago when I was still in and out of depression I met that lovely woman on the right at the birthday of my eldest boy Robert's best friend Nathan.
Lynette knew my wife Patricia at Duntroon - the Royal Military College - when they were kids. Lynette's life had been put back on track by Dolly Swifte Nathan's grandmother. Dolly is a decorated former Dutch Resistance person, and such a good mother and grandmother that she does it for kids who aren't hers. Well loved Canberra person.
Lyn and I soon decide that we had best become friends. She soon found someone else new and married him. Lyn and Richard recently moved back to Tasmania where she had brought up her children. She is big into being grandma to their kids.
We see Lyn and Richard for an intense few days ever 2-3 years.
They met us at the airport and we took them to dinner at the Ball and Chain in Salamanca Place where the markets happen each Saturday
Richard and Lynette didn't have us to stay with them, but they spent two whole days with us, took us to and from the airport and dined out with us that night. We also had a half day and evening meal at their house and land (48 acres) on a big hill called Gunners Quoin.
The modern house; big kitchen & family room, lounge and dining room and ensuite master, is at least 25 squares, four bedrooms, and, there's no-one with a view in from at least 10kms, yet great views over the Derwent and the mountains West. They got a bargain even at Tassie prices.
It takes 20 to 25 minutes to get to our waterfront hotel.
More photos with stories to come.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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