This was one panorama you did not want to experience on your visit to Van Diemen’s Land — back when it was Van Diemen’s Land.

A small speck of terror amid the rolling canopy of green.

Fire has cleansed it of much of it’s horror, so now it is Tasmania’s number one tourist destination once again for completely the opposite reason.

The convict James Dyson was never sent to Port Arthur, but I’m sure he was threatened with it on more than one occasion.

There’s a distinct possibility that the soldierly father-in-law of one of his children in Western Australia had served as a prison guard at Port Arthur in the past. That must have made the after-dinner conversations interesting.

Truth be told, there’s no good reason for this post, other than I wanted an excuse to look at my images from Port Arthur from my visit there, back in 2017. Time is running out so this will be the last post of 2024.