Our last day - and what a cracker! warm and fine.
Our first stop was the Bounty Folk Museum - jam-packed with authentic exhibits, but very poorly curated and some exhibits starting to disintergrate.
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| The prisoners |
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| The prison guards |
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| The models in need of repair - guard again |
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| A prisoner in solitary confinement |
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| The governor hands out punishments |
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| Obviously a family! In need of a dust. |
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| The original Mutineers of the Bounty. Most were murdered by the Tahitian men as each white man had a wife and the Tahitian men had three women to share!! |
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| Huge range of artifacts, some recovered from shipwrecks |
Went into Burnt Pine and had a coffee and picked up supplies for a picnic at Emily Bay. We popped in our togs and loaded up the picnic basket supplied by Jacaranda, including a couple of bottles of cider.
The wind was strong, blowing spray up from the reef, but the sun was warm.
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| This is the tree that Captain Cook painted |
We paddled as we walked along the beach to the salt works where they boiled the salt water to evaporate the water from the salt
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| Looking through a window at the salt works and out to Phillip Island. |
On our way back we decided that, indeed, the water was warm enough to swim in - so we did!
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| Had my sunglasses on when I took a picture of Duncan swimming - he's further out than this! |
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| Lots of buoyancy as the salt water was quite concentrated inside the reef. |
Back to the unit to start our packing, sunning and reading on the deck. "Left Overs" pasta for tea tonight, following by fierce 2 handed 500. I won. A great way to end a most enjoyable holiday - a week was long enough though. Fascinating history and a real lesson on setting up the island sustainabley.
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