Adventure World and Fremantle Prison Night Tour, Halloween Special.

 

Okok, so im kinda pissed that I wasn’t able to get internet for the past few days or so at the lodge. So again, I had to resort to updating my blog offline. For some stupid reason, I couldn’t connect to the internet, or in the best case scenario, it would be ultra slow. And with that I cant update the entries with pics. But rest assured, when I get back, ill show you the pics that ive gathered so far. There aren’t many, neither are they picture perfect, but at least I have something.

So last weekend we went all out, the whole day from morning to night starting with Adventure World and then to Fremantle Prison. Me and Gad went to Adventure World in the morning and we have to head to Fremantle and then take a bus to the location. But, with sheer luck, the train line that goes to Fremantle, was under maintenance and after a few enquiries, we realized that there were extra bus services to replace the train services during that weekend. The journey was longer, about 45 minutes compared to 30 minutes or less via train. It wasn’t an express bus, and it stops at busstops along the train stations. And with that you can imagine the number of towns that the bus have to go through before reaching our intended final destination.

When we reached Fremantle, we took another bus. Another 30 minutes or so to Adventure World. The surrounding areas were quite ‘ulu’ but it’s beside a somewhat beautiful lake, called Bibra
Lake. 39 bucks of entry for Adventure world, and boy were we disappointed at the sorry state of the theme park. For those who thinks that ooooh this theme park is gonna be great or comparable to the big theme parks around world, youll regret it sooo much. It’s a sham really. I don’t think its worthy of being called a theme park. Sure the water theme park is kinda cool, but considering the ‘dry’ theme park, I think even a well organized pasar malam type of rides are enjoyable considering the price alone. In short, its really boring. The rides, are none better than a snore, and they only have one pathethic roller coaster that sits only 6 at one time. Sheesh, what fun.

We didn’t do much there, after taking the rides a couple of times, we grew bored. So we just relaxed at the open spaces where various groups of people or families picnic out. Oh im not gonna say more, it’s a waste of time and money.

Perhaps the day didn’t ended in such boring state. We left Adventure world at close to 5 and headed back to Fremantle to meet Shi Ming. We had another event planned for the day or the night rather. Earlier that week, we booked this special Fremantle Prison night tour Halloween Special via phone and it costed 24.50 bucks. A little pricey for a 1 and a half hour tour, but once we went through it, it was a blast. More on that later.

So at around 6 we met up with Shi Ming at Cicerello’s. Again we tried their Fish and Chips and it was heavenly delicious. When our stomachs were full, we walked to the prison and waited till 7.40pm, where our tour promptly began.

Upon reaching the prison, we were greeted with this nicely decorated Halloween themed entrance, full of pumpkin laterns and spider webs and stuff that looks freaky. A ‘Vampire” by the name of John were our tour guide and he was a great tour guide, adding hints of humor and scariness in how he retold the prison’s gruesome history as he showed us around. Since it was a night tour, we were given a measly torchlight, sufficient, but barely enough to explore every nook and cranny.

It was freaky indeed exploring an old prison where suicide attempts were widespread and capital punishment were in practice in the olden days. It has also been reported to be haunted and that is enough to make you hair stand on end. But the best and scary part was that during the tour, youll encounter people who would come out from nowhere and scare the wits out of you. I had my share of screams and the children, oh poor children with their parents were freaked out as well. But the people who were supposed to scare us, didn’t simply scare us mindlessly. What I liked about the tour is that after they popped out, they usually portray themselves as prisoners or some significant prisoners during those days when they were imprisoned and they would tell us their story. Its pretty interesting to hear what they have to say, as they usually give a bigger insight into the life as a prisoner.

Overall the tour guide showed us many places around the prison, areas divided into various divisions, meant to keep various types of criminals, the chapel, the kitchen, the morgue, solitary confinement areas, and death row. Its really really cool. Much of it is still preserved and its as if going there, makes you feel like you are reliving those days of prison life.

I liked the tour a lot. I’m lucky to be able to experience it. Needless to say, its my first time in a prison too and at night too boot! Overall, it was well worth the money.