{"id":1397,"date":"2012-07-22T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T02:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2012-07-22T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T02:52:49","slug":"port-arthur-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Port Arthur, Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Mal and I spent the day driving down to Port Arthur, about one hour from our home. We revisited the “Port Arthur Historic Site”. The site contains more than 30 historic buildings, extensive ruins and beautiful grounds. We took the short ferry ride from the site to the “Isle of the Dead” cemetery and passed the site of the old and long gone Point Puer Boy’s Prison. The Port Arthur site was built by convict labour in the 1830’s.<\/p>\n

On Sunday 28th April 1996, a tragic chapter was added to Port Arthur’s history when a gunman (Martin Bryant), took the lives of 35 people and physically wounded 19 others in and around the Port Arthur Historic Site. Among them were locals from Port Arthur. The Memorial Garden incorporates the shell of the Broad Arrow Cafe where 20 people were killed during the massacre, and has been created as a place of remembrance and reflection. (\u00a0 en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Port<\/strong>_Arthur<\/strong>,_Tasmania<\/strong><\/cite>\u00a0 )<\/p>\n

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Inside the Memorial Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Port Arthur is a peaceful spot...except maybe school holidays !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ros inside the main prison building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking back to the historic site from Mason Cove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Part of the Penitentiary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A beautiful and very reflective spot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We loved the old fences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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very old trees in winter bareness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking out the door of the Commandant's house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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St David's Church in the foreground with the old church in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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one of the many old cottages beautifully restored<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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early bulbs flowering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Much of the decorative stonework and joinery in the old church was crafted by the boys from the Point Puer Boy's Prison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pat Jones cottage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday, Mal and I spent the day driving down to Port Arthur, about one hour from our home. We revisited the “Port Arthur Historic Site”. The site contains more than 30 historic buildings, extensive ruins and beautiful grounds. We took the short ferry ride from the site to the “Isle of the Dead” cemetery and … Continue reading Port Arthur, Tasmania<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}