While Dave's wife is recovering from from septicemia, picked up on a delivery trip from Tasmania to New Zealand, Dave and I walk around some old penal colonies. The Irish political prisoners were kept seperately in case the converted the other convicts. William O'Brien, leader of the 1848 rebellion, was originally sentenced to be hanged drawn and quartered but this was later commuted to transportation. To keep him out of the way he even got his own cottage while other prisoners died down coal mines or working in the forests. Some people have all the luck. Anyway they somehow became fed up with him and let him go after only a few years. Better than being hung drawn and quartered...