Our anniversary!
Went and got breakfast from The Scottish Restaurant, this time with hotcakes.
After breakfast we headed back to the zoo, this time we decided to drive and mostly skip the first half that we'd done pretty well yesterday. Although we did stop at a few things again. Being a Monday and not a public holiday in NSW, the place was practically deserted. Maybe it was just because we skipped ahead, but a lot of places we had to ourselves which was pretty nice. Had a lot more energy for the second half, and saw things we missed yesterday.
African Wild Dogs
Boab tree near the entrance
Black Rhinoceros - Bakhita and Sabi
Stu with rhinoceros size chart
Zebra
White-handed Gibbon
Greater One-horned Rhino (I think)
Banteng
Camel
Przewalski's Horses
Short-beaked Echidna and Quokka
Wallaby
Wallaby
Stu with an emu
Emu closeup
Lioness
Lion sculpture
Kaz and Stu with Galapagos Tortoises
Stu and Galapagos Tortoises
We were done by about lunch time, and went into town to find some lunch. Had a bread roll and rice paper rolls from a bakery in town.
The Exchange Clock Tower
Then we parked the car under Woollies and went to the Old Dubbo Gaol. Stu's back was hurting again, but we did look around at everything and read most of the info boards. Spent about two hours there, and I got the photo of the gallows to reproduce the one from 1981.
Stu outside the Old Dubbo Gaol
Stu outside the male cell block
Kitchen/store/hospital building
Graves
Yard in Old Dubbo Gaol
Looking down the main cell block
Condemned cell - for prisoners about to be executed
Cell 13 showing a cobbler workstation
Typical cell
Padded cell (under renovation due to termites)
Recreation of an escape attempt where prisoners burnt through the ceiling
Watch tower
Kaz in front of the gallows
View from the watch tower
Gantry next to the watch tower
Female cell
Gaol paraphernalia
Stu reading the stories of some of the inmates on death row
Goal office
Stu in one of the remand yards
Carvings by people in the remand yard
The northern remand yard is a store room for functions
Exercise yard
Laundry
Gallows (just a mockup)
Stu in the hospital ward
Paint strips sanded back to show the different colour schemes over the years
Stove in the kitchen
Gaol bell
Then back to the motel to crash for a few hours so Stu could rest his back.
Later I put on some cooking and game shows on, and finally saw an episode of Letters and Numbers.
Went out. Had a drink at the Milestone Hotel, then went next door to Hog's Breath Cafe for dinner. They very nicely offer different sizes of steaks, so I could get a small one and not end up stuffed silly, so that worked really well. Stu had steak and ribs. All quite nice.
Stu with his dinner at the Hog's Breath Cafe
And then back to crash.
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