The 2-hour time difference has been hard to adjust to for some reason but I managed to stay in bed until about 8am. It said somewhere that they have free breakfast here but I couldn't find the kitchen so I decide to go to the Trackside Bakery and get a pie instead. It was an excellent choice. I wanted the breakfast egg and bacon pie but they were out so I settled for the quiche instead which is basically the same thing, just without a top crust. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do so I decided to go to Fremantle, which is a suburb of Perth. It sounded like a good place to go form what I read in my Australia travel guide. Before heading to Fremantle, I walked to a travel agency that had internet and asked for suggestions for hostels in Melbourne. I needed to find one asap so I could call Pack and Send and let them know where to ship my suitcase to. After spending an hour on the internet checking my mail and finding a hostel I called one and they have room. I then called Pack and Send and gave them the info. To get to almost anywhere I have to walk through either the train station or the bus station so it is very convenient. I had just enough time to run back to my hostel and drop and few things off and then get to the train. I was about a 40-minute ride there and it was easy to know where to get off because the train ended there. I jumped on one of the city CATs outside the train station and rode it for a while not knowing where I was going. Perth and Fremantle both have a city CAT system, which is a free bus that goes around the CBD of each city. I checked my map, got an idea of where I was and got off the bus. I eventually found my way to the Fremantle jail and decided to take a tour. Being a student got me in for $12 for the Doing Time 1 ¼ hour tour. There were about 16 of us on the tour. The tour guide was Scottish and funny. The jail opened in 1800-something and the first prisoners where the ones who built it. The buildings were condemned in 1900 for being unfit for humans but it continued to operate until 1991. Seeing the jail and the living conditions makes it hard to believe it was still open 14 years ago. We started the tour with some of the cells which were insanely small and then on to the huge kitchen and the courtyard. The were 4 divisions or halls of cells within the jail. Division 1 was for inmates spending a small amount of time in jail and each division increased in time from there. From there we went to church where apparently people still get married today. Outside in another courtyard was a replica of the giant easel-like thing where they gave lashings. It was then on to solitary confinement and the cell where inmates spent there last hours on death row. We took the walk same walk as the inmates did to where they were hanged. On average it only took 50 seconds from the time they left the cell to death. We didn't hang around there long and moved on to division 4 to see a time line of how the sizes of the rooms changed over the years and some of the artwork the inmates were allowed to paint once they knew the jail was going to be closing. The tour went fast and was very informative. After it was over, I wondered down to the city and past the Fremantle oval football field and the town hall. I stopped in a few Aboriginal artwork shops and souvenir shops as I wondered. I ended up down on the esplanade where there were heaps of fish and chips places, and of course a McDonalds. I walked down to the beach area and admired the Indian Ocean for a bit before I got hungry. I decided on Joe's Fish Shack, which seemed to look very similar to Joe's Crab Shack. It was really good but I got a huge heap of chips and couldn't even eat half of them. I got the seafood basket, which was a crab stick, some kind of fish fillet, calamari and something else, not sure what it was but I have had it before. After I had my fill I wondered around a bit more and went into an opal shop. I kind of wanted an opal before I left and found one cheap enough so I got a necklace. It was about 5pm so I figured it was time to find the train station back so I could get back to my hostel and book more hostels so I don't have to worry about it anymore. The train happened to be there right as a I got to the station which was great. The trip wasn't bad but the train was getting fuller and fuller as we went along. When I got back to my room my German roommate Tina was there and one of the Kiwis. They were all going to go to the cinema but I decided not to go because they were either going to X-Men or The Break up. I could never tell the difference between the New Zealand and Australian accents until I listened to the two of them talk. The differences between the two are small but are now apparent to me. Tina and I had a good laugh when the one said 7:10 because it sounds like 17. I used the internet here at the hostel to find more hostels and to get numbers. I had to go across the street to use a pay phone to call but they were all 800 numbers anyway. I also tried to book a tour for here tomorrow that would take me around to other parts and to Mandurah where there are resident bottle-nosed dolphins but the tour was full already. I went back to my room and pretty much went to bed because I was tired.