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If you look around you will see almost only green. On the horizot you will see only blue. Together is amazing. I like this two colors. I was there winter (August) of 2002, but we had nice weather. The hole island have fresh air from the ocean. That is why lots of old people visit this island. The other reason visit the island is because you don't have to worry about your thigs. Nobody will stole your staff. Everybody have own things. On the airplane I think we were the only people under 25.
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If you walking on the beach you will see lot of coralls around. That is why you have to try swimming with a google in the water. The water not to cold even in the winter for swimming. Of course the best temperature is in Summer.
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Norfolk Island is famous, because the old prisons. They are all restaurated. I did a picture in one of them. I can't understand, how people spent they time in a little rooms like this in the prison.
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On the island you have ideal places to do picknik. The weather is great in usually and you just need a little time to do this thing.
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We spent lot of time on the Norfolk Island beach do nothing just watching the ocaen and the waves. We enjoyed so much. In Hungary we don't have ocean and see. But I think, if you have you still enjoy this activity. 2-3 meter high waves around you.
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When I was there I heard some story about the local history. Maybe you know Australia was a prison island forlong time. Norfolk Island was an other prison island, but for worst prisoners. The hole island is very young. I heard captain Cook was the first who touched the island before Australia.
Norfolk Island's Fascinating History The day after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, Lieutenant Philip Gidley King began selecting the handful of men and women whose fate it would be to colonise Norfolk Island. Britain was then engaged in the American War of Independence and her supplies of timber for ship-building and flax for sails were almost exhausted. When Captain Cook discovered Norfolk Island, he enthusiastically reported that flax and giant pines grew abundantly there. His Majesty's Government had a further reason for colonising Norfolk - if the British didn't, the French would. Lord Sydney's instructions to King were " to send a small establishment thither to secure the same to us and prevent it being occupied by subjects of any other European Power". Six women convicts were chosen as those 'whose characters stood fairest' and they were joined by nine male convicts and eight free men, their ages ranging from 16 to 72. The oldest, Richard Widdicombe, had been a farmer. He was convicted for `stealing one wooden winch and other goods, value four guineas', and was sentenced to seven years transportation. The youngest, Charles McLennan, was convicted when he was only 14 years of age and given seven years for `stealing a bladder purse, value one penny, one gold half-guinea, one half-crown, and six pennies'. Of the motley 759 persons who arrived with the First Fleet, these 23 were selected as `the best of a bad lot'.
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on January 3, 2003
on February 23, 2003
