A Sunday Afternoon in Fremantle

Our second full day in Perth began with a 9:30 a.m. worship service in a Presbyterian Church that had a pastor who really knew how to preach! (very helpful and inspirational) In mid-day our gracious hostess, Sherry Vaughan, drove us south to the port city of Fremantle where we had fish and chips and then explored some of the town on a beautiful sunny day. Nancy and I spent over an hour on a fascinating tour of the old Fremantle Prison that was built with convict labor in the mid nineteenth century and not de-commissioned as a working prison until 1991. (Convicts were imported from England and subjected to hard labor immediately on a limestone hill in order to quarry out the limestone blocks to build their own prison!) For over a hundred years conditions were harsh and primitive. - rw