20150608 - Perth Day 5

Today, we went to the Perth Mint. We went for the tour and they showed us the biggest gold coin in the world which weighed a massive 1 tonne.  We were also shown how a gold bar was created using real gold.  It was amazing!  Wish we could touch it but we couldn't!

Carrying a replica of a gold that was found in Australia many years ago

Flowers within the Perth Mint compound

Next, we went to King's Park.

Climbing up the DNA tower

Glass bridge in the park

20150607 - Perth Day 4

 We are at the CAT bus station near to our accommodation.  We are going to Perth Station.

ROARRRR!!!!!!! I'm a big green dinosaur!

Some dead dinosaur

Playing at the fountain.  Got my shoes and pants wet.

At Claisebrook Station.

Wicked!

Map of Oz

We met Jemma Rix who acted as Elphaba at the stage door :) Too bad I missed Glinda!

20150606 - Perth Day 3

I AM THE QUEEN!!!

Going for the Doing Time Prison Tour

The tour guide Ben showing how new prisoners are searched when they first arrived in Fremantle.

The prison is built by the first convicts to Fremantle using limestone.

See the bucket on the floor?  It's actually a poop bucket.  Fremantle was still using poop buckets up till its closure on 1991! (How would you feel if you need to use that poop bucket?) 

The area for cleaning the poop buckets.

Climbing up the stairs to the second level.

VI has been changed as the prison staff is also 'killing'.

A piano in the chapel in the prison.

This is how a cell looked like in 1860 - 1870.

The cells are subsequently enlarged by breaking down the wall between two cells.

The introduction of 'modern' toiet in the 1960 - 1980 period.  However, the poop bucket was used again when the prison staff realised that the prisoners were using the toilet bowl to concoct chemicals for consumption. 

Paintings painted in the cells by prisoners.

Paintings again.

This is a solitary cell

Daddy in front of solitary cell 1 which is used by the prisoners on the morning before they were hanged.

The tour guide demonstrating how the flogging pole is used.

Ouch! Ouch!

The gallows

Tea break at the Convict Cafe in the Fremantle Prison.

Scones and chocolate milkshake.  Yummy!

The original noose which is in the prison museum.  They also have a table to help them calculate the length of the noose to use based on the prisoner's stature.

Bye bye Fremantle Prison YHA!

On the train back to Perth City from Fremantle.

Yikes! The car is squashed by some trees (don't worry, it's a fake car)!

Late lunch at the Afghan restaurant near Baileys Service Apartment.

The Doing Time tour pictures.