Day 24 – Hobart – lazyday    

 Today we left Bruny Island for Hobart in preparation for heading into Wellington range tomorrow.  With not much planned we thought it would be a great time to go the Cadbury chocolate factory and stock up on some of the essentials but to John’s horror they were closed, which was really disappointing and what made it worse they didn’t restart their tours until 8^th which was right when we were leaving L

 So from there we decided to find a camp site close to the city to save us time in the morning seeming we needed to pickup the key between 0800 and 0900, we found a caravan park called treasure island which wasn’t really that nice and I think the only treasure they have is from the $22 dollars a night entrance fee.  It’s over crowed and windy and right on the foreshore, we are staying for two nights, well at least it’s a place to sleep. 

After setting up the tent we went of to the centre of Hobart for a tour of the penitentiary chapel, which used to be a part of the old Hobart gaol.  It was a nice old building which consisted of two courts a chapel and the gallows.  The tour guide was a nice old man, who was a bit boring at times but it still was really interesting, it was a shame that a lot of the building has been demolished to make way for new buildings. Most done in the 60’s when Tasmania was trying to avoid the ghost’s of the past by burning convict documentation and knocking down gaols.  I don’t know what was going through their heads back then.  The thing that was most interesting to me was that the solitary confinement cells were directly under the church pews, which is why the priest at the time would not commission the church, strangely he didn’t like the idea of prisoners being held underneath while you attended the church service!

 From there we decided to go to the movies to watch Casino Royal, the new James Bond movie which was John’s choice.  The movie was typical James Bond style, VERY predictable and to John’s disgust it had romance.  It was a bit all over the place John didn’t really get the plot, but it was an ok movie but defiantly something you could see on video.

 After the movie we made our way back to the camp ground, on the way looking for wireless internet access, which at first we thought we would not be able find.   We drove up and down streets and found heaps of internet connections from houses and businesses, but most were properly encrypted and locked out.  We were starting to think that our neighbour at home was the only silly person who does not have their internet locked, but what do you know we found one. We made a few banking transactions and sent Ben an email which we sent in a hurry because we were out the front of the person’s house, and when people started coming home we got a bit spooked and finished up quickly.  

Now finishing up getting up early to start our day tomorrow.