Island Trek: Fossil Cliffs
Mar. 16th, 2010 05:24 pm(Sections in italics are from the Parks and Wildlife Service's information leaflet. Any comments I've added to these are in square brackets.)
So around and up the hill. The first stop is the brick barn.
This building was constructed [in 1846] by convicts using bricks made from clay puddled with sea water. Look at the way some of the bricks are disintegrating. The salts from the water have crystallised and weakened the bricks.
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So around and up the hill. The first stop is the brick barn.
This building was constructed [in 1846] by convicts using bricks made from clay puddled with sea water. Look at the way some of the bricks are disintegrating. The salts from the water have crystallised and weakened the bricks.
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