Well here it is our blog for our 2014 adventure - the adventure down under in Australia. We, Sean, Krystin, Matthew and Kade Rennie, are heading to Australia for a year. The adventure starts before we actually get to where we will live. We are heading to New Zealand on Christmas day for a little family vacation then off to the east coast of Australia before settling in Falcon in Western Australia. We will be about an hour south of Perth on the Indian Ocean. So stay tuned as we plan to post often to keep our family and friends up to date on our adventure.

Sunday, August 24, 2014

In Prison This Weekend

This past Saturday we decided to head up to Fremantle, one of our favourite places, to tour the prison.  This particular prison has significance in the development of Western Australia.  When the first convicts were send from Britain in 1850, usually sentenced to Australia for petty crimes such as stealing bread or livestock, they were sent to Fremantle and required to actually build the prison they were sentenced to. The Prison was built between 1852 to 1859 using the limestone quarry on the site.  In the 1890's the Fremantle Prison became the colony's primary place of confinement for all of WA.  This prison was up and running until 1991and would believe never had plumbing the cells - they had pots for their toilets and had to clean them out everyday.





Front Entrance of the Fremantle Prison - this is where the
convicts came in too.

A view from the gun towers


Boys doing their time

Trying to escape?


Inside the men's prison cell area


This is what a cell looked like in the 1800


The gallows

Front Gate

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