24th August

This time we visited the Fannie Bay Jail. This was set up early in Darwin's history and is now a tourist attraction and no longer being used. It is the site of the last hanging in Darwin.

Inside the wall its not really a holiday camp. No breeze and very hot. What would it have been like in the Summer back in the late 1800s.

 Not your typical holiday accommodation,though not unlike the toilet blocks at Lee point Caravan park!!

No Air con in these blocks. Tin roof, no big windows, imagine how hot it would get in there.

The door were very narrow I suppose to stop some one charging out when the door was opened and trying to escape. A suspicious looking person in the background!

On a lighter note I found my kind of place. A shed full of cars and assorted junk,just like my garage at home only bigger. Its the old Qantas hanger in Fannie Bay just around the corner from the Jail.
It still has the Bullet holes and damage from when it was strafed by the Japanese during the war.

My kind of place but as Helen was with me the time was limited. She did enjoy the old cars though as her Dad used to have Vintage cars.

                             A few recognisable ones like this Austin 7

                                                       An Oldsmobile Buckboard

                                                              A brace of Jeeps!!

                          And something a bit heavier like a Traction engine,a Burrel I think.

Thats all this time.
Cheers Helen and David