LOVELY HOBART, YUMMY CADBURY, INTERESTING PORT ARTHUR, AND UNBELIEVABLE WHITE BEACH

Yesterday we arrived in Hobart about 4:30 and headed to our hotel,the SalamancaWharf Hotel. Our BEST accomodation so far on our Australian trip.Just gorgeous and a grea location. We headed over to the wharf area where there were dozen of outdoor restaurants to choose from. We chose a place with wood fired pizza on the menu and ended up sittingoutside next to a friendly group of four: two Tasmanians, One Sydnyite, and one French man. We had a great chatup about "democracy"  Their elections were on Saturday and it is mandatory to vote i Australia. If you do not vote, you get a fine. If you do ot pay the fine,they revolk your drivers license.  Interesting eh? 

Today, we headed out to the Cadbury factory and saw this rainbow on the way.  Good luck for us, as we had no problem finding the factory about 11 km from Hobart.

Big expectations.

Great shopping.  

We stopped for brunch in a tiny town on the way to Port Arthur and found this great little place.  Tom had the best... a breakfast pizza with bacon, cheese and an egg in the middle. 

The outside of this adorable restaurant.

A memorial at the waterfront of the twon.

Yup, a road sign to watch for the Tasmanian devils.

A sign at theentrance to the penal colony in Port Arthur. This colony started inthe erly 1800's and ended about 1875.  It has a wicked past and is today a museum.

They gave everyone a card as they entered the museum which indicated a prisoner who you could get to know and identify. I was Charles Hogan from England who stole and needed to be rehabiitated from the "the drink"

Some of the prison architecture.  All bricks made by the prisoners.

Solitary confinement in the "newer" section of the prison.

The totally dark isolation cell.

The lecture hall to educate prisoners.

The church

There were many bush fires that destroyed parts of the penal colony after it was abandoned as a prison.  The walls of the church are still standing today. All prisohers were required to go to church every Sunday.

This is the inside a a small anglican chapel that is part of the colony.

More remains of the church.

Overlooking the deep water port.

The remains of the first penitentury.

A map of the penal colony. It is spread out ofver 100 acres.

The colony from the water. WE took a boat cruise on the bay.

The opening of the port to the Tasman Sea.

The porch on our B & B on White Beach.

We can hear the waves in our room.

The Day ended with a rainbow we saw from the Hub Restaurant where we had dinner.