Jackson Point Cemetery

After several tries, we finally found what the roadsign called a "Historic Catholic Cemetery". It was indeed just where it was indicated (100m from the highway), it was just hidden over a hill, behind a stand of trees, on a side road. I had to look on Google Maps to find it.

But here it is, on a hill overlooking the Huon River. If you are going to spend eternity in the ground, this seems like the place to be.



As in other cemeteries we've seen here, the colors on the stones are remarkable. We were treated to the flowering scoparia ground cover being bloom as well.The tiny pink and white flowers make a beautiful display in this garden of the deceased.

I cannot begin to guess what some parts of this stone are green, some are red, and the bulk is...well, stone colored.

This marker is basking in the sun with its red shoulders and green top. If I were a ghost-ish kind of guy, I might comment that the white marks on the front remind me of claw marks of someone...or something...trying to get out. But I'm not that sort of fellow, so disregard that comment.

Although the color scheme on this stone is similar to the others, the darkening of the stone in general seems to add a more serious, possibly even sinister, appearance to it.

In the Victorian style, the handshake represents saying goodby to friends.

This stone has such vivid colors that is most resembles a gravestone from some bad horror movie. The flowers around it add a friendlier touch giving this a conflicted mix of benign and threatening.

I thought this broken stone told a story of its own. In the spirit of Ozymandias, this broken marker, enclosed by a fence, admonishes the resident to rest in peace while the state of the stone suggest a history that has not always been peaceful.

Like most of the other cemeteries we've visited here, there is tons of wallaby poo everywhere. Perhaps this is why the scoparia grows so well. If so, it is a symbiotic relationship since wallabies really love to eat this plant, hence the vast amounts of poo.

One clue to the colors on these stones is the marker below. If you look at the flower at the top, it is clear that it was painted or cast in colored stone to make the flowers and the leaves be green and yellow. In the current state, it is not really clear how extensive this coloring is. Perhaps the 'clean' portion of the stone below the flower is the result of some more recent cleaning of the marker. Hard to tell.

And so, like the residents of this peaceful field overlooking the Huon River, we come to an end.