The township of Darlington is where you’ll start your time on the island. Close to the ferry jetty are some amazing old silos (good for some monastic chanting inside) and the historic commissariat store , now the national park visitor centre. Through an avenue of gnarled macrocarpa trees, lies the penitentiary , which once housed convicts (now bunkhouse-style accommodation) as well as the restored Coffee Palace and mess hall .
