The challenge of the Bush

The First settlers found living in the new land of Australia very challenging and the colony struggled to survive in a harsh land. The free settlers found it tough for the convicts both male and female as well as children life was even harder for they were used as labour to build the new colonies infrastructure such as roads ,buildings and for the lucky ones as servants for the wealthy and luck was in that in particular for the women they worked for someone who treated them well.

There were no walls to keep the convicts confined to the settlement for the Governor considered the bush to be walls enough and for good reason. 
For many convicts freedom was a long way off and for some it was for therm of their natural lives they were to serve thier sentence so faced with that kind of prospects many did take off into the bush , many did not last long .
Some were killed by the Aboriginies others got lost and starved to death  others came back to face the music rather than die in the hostile bush .

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