Doing Hard Time in Perth

We arrived in Perth on Monday evening after a brief sojourn in Busselton. The stop off in Busselton was to walk the longest wooden piled jetty in the southern hemisphere. It was blocked at the 200 metre mark so we could only look out over the last kilometer.

Perth was all hard time. Firstly it was the Fremantle prison, which was built by and for convicts but continued operating until 1991. Then it was Perth city where we ended up in the old gaol in the museum complex and finally it was Rottness Island where the heritage buildings were built by and for aboriginal prisoners in the late 19^th century and also for a boy’s reformatory. A hard time the lot of it!

Of course on our way to jail we did manage to sight a few other interesting things like: what remains of the Batavia at the maritime museum in Fremantle, a gold pour at the Perth Mint, quokkas on Rottness Island, and a walk in Kings Park.

Stay tuned for travels to Monkey Mia (where we are now) and beyond