Day #34 Hobart, Tasmania

The main thing that I wanted to explore today was the Hobart Convict Penitentiary. It is closed on Tuesdays. Bummer!

I wanted to learn a little more about what crimes sent offenders from the UK to Australia. There were 19 crimes (but not limited to the 19) that would have resulted in being sent to far away Australia. More often than not, repeat offenders got a one way trip to Australia.

Here are the fabled 19 crimes:

1. Grand Larceny, theft above the value of one shilling.

2. Petty Larceny, theft under one shilling.

3. Buying or receiving stolen goods, jewels, and plate...

4. Stealing lead, iron, or copper, or buying or receiving.

5. Impersonating an Egyptian.

6. Stealing from furnished lodgings.

7. Setting fire to underwood.

8. Stealing letters, advancing the postage, and secreting the money.

9. Assault with an intent to rob.

10. Stealing fish from a pond or river.

11. Stealing roots, trees, or plants, or destroying them.

12. Bigamy.

13. Assaulting, cutting, or burning clothes.

14. Counterfeiting the copper coin...

15. Clandestine marriage.

16. Stealing a shroud out of a grave.

17. Watermen carrying too many passengers on the Thames, if any drowned.

18. Incorrigible rogues who broke out of Prison and persons reprieved from capital punishment.

19. Embeuling Naval Stores, in certain cases.

I think my favorite is #5. I can imagine that as a particularly heinous offense.

Without the Hobart Convict Penitentiary to visit, we went to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. It was an art museum, history museum and a native flora and fauna museum. Then a late lunch harbor side.

Tasmanian devil

reproduction of an Antarctic explorer's hut

Salvation Army store or Salvos

more appologies

urban art

After abandoning hopes of finding other interesting stuff we headed back to the apartment. Randeen headed for the municipal pool to clock some kilometers.

Tomorrow it is off to Melbs. That is what many Aussies call Melbourne.