We disembarked from the Hebridean Sky at 8:30 this morning and shortly after that checked into the Hotel Lennox. After settling into our room we started walking, and we walked a lot!
Most of the day was spent exploring the Ushuaia Jail and Military Prison Museum. In 1896 prisoners we sent to this area to begin the establishment of a prison for second-time offenders and to possibly start a penal colony like they did in Australia. By 1920 the prison was mostly completed and housed over 600 inmates who had built the structure out of block and stone. To do so they had to build a railroad to haul lumber and rocks to the building site. The prison has 5 arms radiating out from one central court and is two stories high. Today each arm has a different themed museum such as a Maritime museum filled with model ships that sailed these seas, an art gallery, a jail house history wing and an Antarctic Museum. Between the arms is a reproduction of one of the original lighthouses on the Beagle Channel and two train engines. The model ships were all created by one navel modeler and cover 50 years of sailing. The H.M.S. Beagle was Darwin’s ship.
We walked the business district again and then the bayside park, and then up the hill to check out a restaurant then back down town. Are you tired yet? We are!
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