Day 18 and 19 Tasmania

Whereas the continent of Australia is hot and dry, this southern island is cool and green, lots of forests and lakes. We visited Port Arthur, where in the 1800s, many of the prisoners were transported  from the British Empire (after they couldn’t send them to America anymore after the revolution). It was an inescapable place, where the prisoners used the local large timbers  (300 feet high and 5 foot diameter) to make ships.

Pirates Cove

Port Arthur Prison Complex

Adventure Bay, where the old ships would resupply.

Walking through the fern laden rainforest under the 250 foot canopy.