To understand a little bit more about a certain place, you need to understand a little bit about the historical facts as well. Now about Western Australia, do you know that Australia start of as a place where they dump convicts to? OK OK, let me rephrase ... Australia predominantly settled by convicts.
So the first permanent building in Western Australia is actually a prison called Round House which was built in 1831. Can you believe that? I mean have you ever imagine that the first building you build in a brand new city while playing Cityville or SimCity is a prison? Funnily weird yes?
Now, when the town is fast growing, with convicts that is, so much so that there is 3 convicts to 1 free man, the round house prison is obviously overcrowded. So they need to build a larger prison to accomodate the convicts and so the Fremantle Prison comes into the picture.
The Fremantle Prison is a must visit site in Fremantle. And if you are not faint hearted, you should follow one or all of their guided tours with themes such as the Great Escape Tour, the Tunnel Tour or the Spooky Torchlight Tour. Each tour took about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Unfortunately my 5 year old son was totally scared (by the fact that I told him this is the jail the police will bring him to if he is naughty) we skipped. 
If you skip the tour which you have to pay, you can still walk into the front portion of the prison with some galleries and mock up prison room and visitation room for us to view. Awesome!
The final mentioned of Fremantle hot spots is this Maritime Museum and Shipwreck Gallery. Nothing to shout about but cool to see they pull out a big part of a huge ship that was sunk under the ocean.
Just two last photos of me and my son posing away in the some heritage remnants and buildings of Fremantle.Location : Perth, Western Australia.
Date of travel : September 2011 (Spring)
