Aboard the Lady Jane Franklin 2 and the family pantomime.

We awoke very early to a few tired heads had a quick brekky and headed into Strahan harbour were we boarded Lady Jane Franlkin 2 which would take us around Macquarie harbour and out through the heads back down the Gordon river to heritage landing and a forest walk then lunch on board and onto to Sarah island where we did a hour long tour with some very amusing tour guides and once more back on the Lady Jane Franklin 2 after that it was only 30 mins back to port.
The guides also boarded back to Strahan and it turns out these were the people doing the pantomime " the ship that never was " in town , this proved to be a massive hit with the whole family as they get a lot of the audience involved in the play too.
The story was of the capture of the "Frederick" the last ship to be built at Sarah Island by the remaining convicts by a group of ten convicts and by master shipwright Mr Hoy .
It's quite a farce in reality how they achieved this Shahla played the the cat who belonged to billy "dash" and "Ej" played Ben russen a known ruffian .
With many other people in the crowd playing other vital parts its hilarious yet basically the story is true however the crew idi escape to Chile South America for a year and later four were caught again by British forces and returned to Van Diemans land.
Shahla turned out to steal the play as you would expect and kept the crowd in fits of laughter with her antics of the cat and her personality it was great to see.
After the play we walked across the road to try to get the famed local fish and chips but alas it was closed yet again! They keep very odd hours here ,very frustrating .
So Hamers hotel it was to be quite a busy place in town and it turns out they own quite a few other places in Strahan.
It's amazing how many people who work on the tour boats and such also work a second job in town at either pubs hotels or eateries , there appears to be more work available than workers which became apparent a few days later when we went to the bottles shop for medicinal alcohol supplies and the shift supervisor was cursing Chefs and got us laughing as we explained my trade but she saw the lighter side and laughed as well and explained the staffing issues they deal with regularly and anyone who has ever worked hospitality would understand.
Tea and then dessert went down real well and the conversations going on around us were all abuzz with tassie exploits from bush walking especially the Arthur's and cradle mountain and renowned speed bushwalker Peter Treseder ( which pricked my ears up as I always found him enticing but controversial as I prefer to walk while exploring the surroundings not just to get somewhere fast! ).
A comfy ( well somewhat comfy for Corinna ) bed was calling to us so we headed back to the heads and off to bed as it had been a very busy day for all of us