Day 2-Adelaide…Nov. 16/22

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It’s a free day so we joined Lyna and Brianna, got a bus pass and went to visit the Adelaide Gaol…. No longer in service. 1841 to late 1980’s…. Housed approx. 300,000 prisoners over the years. It was also where they held executions….by hanging. 44 men and 1 female.

At the entrance ware these flowers I have never seen…. Anyone???
Front entrance to Adelaide Gaol 1847-1988
The dinner etc. bell
Hangman’s noose used here… a simple rope with a washer not the one on the right.
Lyna and the ball & chain
Upper level
Me behind bars
Temporary gallows
The regular gallows on the upper floor with trap door between floors
Executed prisoners were buried in the walls and can be identified by the numbers on the exterior
“Torture Chamber”… actually the dentist chair much like one I remember from my childhood and the reason I didn’t go again for years

On the way back we stopped at the Rundle Market, a pedestrian market with higher end shops as well as K-Mart, giant metal balls stacked, 4 brass pigs and huge pigeon.

King William
War memorial
The “Malls Balls” at Rundle Pedestrian Mall
Rundle Pedestrian Mall
Jeanette and me by giant pigeon
One of the malls pigs drinking from a water fountain
Lyna kissing one of the 4 brass pigs

After returning to hotel, Lyna, Brianna and I (Jeanette stayed behind), we took an Uber to Cleland National park that has a wildlife park. Amazing!!! We fed (and watched as others were fed) and petted Koalas, kangaroos, wombats, echidnas, bandicoots, emus, Tasmanian devils, dingos and wallabies as well as many types of birds. Pictures to follow…. Too many!

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