Today, we pack up the camper trailer and car and take them to undercover car storage for the week we will be back on the Gold Coast. We are moving into a cabin overnight at the Caravan Park and flying to the Gold Coast on a early flight tomorrow.
After leaving the car and trailer, we are heading into Adelaide City precinct for a look around Rundle Mall and the Adelaide Museum.
We caught the free city tram to the old Adelaide Gaol.
The gaol entrance
Simple system to alert the guards if anyone was going over the top. The bricks are loose lay honeycomb style and anyone climbing up would knock the bricks down causing a noise to alert the guards.
The gaol closed in 1988 is the longest continuously serving prison in Australia.
A copy of the dietary scale allowance for the several classes of prisoners are as follows.
No. 1. Hard Labour - l.5 lb. bread, l.5 pound of meat, 1 lb. potatoes, l.lb peas, 1/2 oz Angar, 2 oz rice, 2 oz salt, l oz soap, 1/2 oz tobacco.
No.2. Light Labour - l lb bread, 1/2 pound meat, 1/2 lb potatoes. 1.2 oz tea, 2 oz sugar, 2 oz rice, 1/2 oz salt, 1/2 oz soap, 1/2 oz tobacco.
No.3. Solitary - l.5 lb bread.
When the gaol was being built, the decorative towers were so expensive that it bankrupted the state.
We then caught the tram into the city centre to visit the museum.
Inside the museum annex. It is a beautiful Victorian style building. It was wonderful to see the full displays of many items and not minimal displays and story boards which a lot of the museums tend to do today. Douglas Mawson had a large display. He came from Adelaide and taught at the University. Mawson was famous to most Australians for his trip to the Antarctic but primarily his trip was geology based.
This display of rocks was colour graded. Above right – huge displays of meteorites.
Just excellent displays. Above a couple of the dogs from the Mawson exploration. Above right a desert display.
We headed back to the caravan park via the free bus service – now smarter to ride the shorter way home. Very early start tomorrow for our flight home.
Monday 17th – Wednesday 25th March – our visit home to welcome our new grandchild and start of our house build.
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