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The Sights of Fremantle
This morning we started the day with an amazing second-hand
bookstore. Both Drew and Hayden bought
themselves books, I could have bought a hundred books and still not got
everything I liked – too many options!
Our next stop was the Fremantle Markets – so many food and colours –
Hayden even got to play a “street” piano!
After a picnic lunch, we walked to the Fremantle Prison and did two tours.
The first tour “Doing Time” took
us through the prison, from when it was built by convicts in the 1850’s until
it was closed in 1991. Because the
prison was in continual use until so recently it is an unusually well preserved
convict building. One section of cells
has been modified to show the evolution of cells over the time periods. The second tour “Great Escapes" showed us
through the security used at the prison as well as successful and unsuccessful
escape attempts.
We then drove to the Round House, however a wedding was in progress so we didn’t go in.
Our last stop for the day was the port area, we could look at the Leewin II tall ship that was in the docks – hard to imagine sailing for six months on the open sea in such a small vessel!
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