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We woke up and realized we'd slept through the alarm, cos the phone battery had died! We got up and went out to the main room where we got breakfast – cereal, toast, tea and juice. We talked to the lady there for a bit, then got ready and headed back out to Port Arthur Historic Site. When we got there we went on a boat cruise around the harbor where we saw the Isle of the Dead, where they buried all the dead from Port Arthur, and Point Puer, where there used to be a boys prison. When we got off the boat we went back to the Visitor Centre where we met our guide for the walking tour. He took us out onto the grass and talked a bit about convict life and pointed out some of the buildings and what they were used for. After that we went off and had a look at the ruins of the Paupers depot, where elderly convicts who had served their time lived, the ruins of the hospital, some of the officers houses, the guard tower, and the commandants house which had been made up like a museum of what the house would have looked like. Then we went down to the ruins of the penitentiary where the prisoners were kept. When we went out the back there were some people dressed up, and it turned out they were actors who were rehearsing for a play that was going to be put on for Easter. So we got to see the play! It was about Georgie-boy, a convict who was at Port Arthur. After that we headed back to the Visitor Centre and got some lunch – wedges and fish/vegie pastie. Then we went and had a look at the ruins of the government cottage and the church, then looked at St. David’s church and played some spooky notes on the organ. Then we went up and had a look through all the houses on Civil Row, including the ones from the ghost tour. Then we headed up to separate prison and had a look through there, they had some displays in some of the cells. While we were there we bumped into the actors again, and watched another rehearsal about an irish convict who was on a hunger strike. Then we went to the Asylum, which has been made into a museum, and had a look around there, looked up our names on the convict registry then headed back to the Visitor Centre. On the way we stopped at memorial gardens, which had the ruins of a building where the 1996 massacre took place. Then we headed back to the hotel. On the way back we stopped at a place called Remarkable Cave. We walked down a steep set of stairs down the Cliffside and there was like a tunnel through the cliff-face to the sea where the waves were coming through. Then we headed back to the hotel where we had a short nap. Then we headed to Nubeena to try find a restaurant we’d been recommended. We couldn’t find it at first and found a closed café with the same name. After being really confused for a bit, we found it. We went in and had a vege Mediterranean pancake stack and a chicken parma. After tea we went back to the hotel and went to bed.
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