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Christmas Day 2010

We decided that we would not go to one of the major places for a lunch as we would have some bacon and eggs for brunch. The plan was then to do some sight seeing and come back for a quiet tea. Something different to having lashings of food and alcohol at lunch. We headed down to Kingston for a few hours and had a look at the old buildings there as well as the wharf.

Tea tonight was roast chicken and potatoes for Gai and minced beef curry for me.




Breakfast
time.

Looking south. Neapan
& Phillip Island.

Cemetery Bay
through the Pines.

Bloody
Bridge.

Part of the bridge
has now collapsed.

The collapsed
section.

Looking up Music
Valley from the bridge.

Smile
Clive.

Music Valley
Gardens.

Cemetery
Bay.

Cemetery
Bay.

This tree shows
the wind direction.

New Cemetery looking
towards the old cemetery.

Pillars mark the old
cemetery entrance.

Looking north back
to the pillars.

Another
view.

Windswept trees and
terraced hills.

View from the sand hill
with Gai in the centre.

Norfolk Pines line
Emily Bay.

Looking across the lagoon
at the convicts quarters.

The coastline is
all sedimentary rock.

Houses on
Quality Row.

7
Quality Row.

Looking up Quality
row to the prison.

10
Quality Row.

The old Officers Barracks
now used by the Council.

General soldiers
Brracks.

More Officers
Quarters.

An old well with
water still there.

View through one
of the corner turrets.

Government
House.

The back of the old
Convicts Barracks.

The back of the new
Convicts Barracks.

The
Officers Quarters.

Built in
1856.

Looking towards
Phillip Island.

Rocks slowly
being eroded.

Prisoners
Barracks.

The main
enterance.

View north, with the
sea to our back.

Looking towards
the new Barracks.

Another
view.

A bronze cast of
HMS Sirius.

Clive does
some history.

You can see how
thick the walls are.

Ruins of the
new Barracks.

The only exit
and enterance.

A monument to
HMS Sirius.

One of the mains wharfs, (Kingston),
where freight is bought in.

Coloured rocks
of the coast line.

Surveyors
marker.

The
Flaghouse.

Inside the Flaghouse
building at Kingston.

Clive had to
go inside.

The Royal
Engineer Office.

Cattle grazing
beside a creek.

You pay $60.00 a year to
allow your cattle to roam.

This one crossed
in front of us.

Christmas Dinner. Roast
Chicken and Beef Curry.

Merry Christmas
Gai.

Google Earth map showing our cottages in relaton to the view that we have from our back Verandah. As you can see we basically look North out towards Cascade Bay.