Lower Longley Cemetery

We stopped at a cemetery we found by the side of the road on the way into Hobart. It was located on the side of a fairly steep hill next to the main road with now signage or fencing. It is small and nearly all the markers are old.

A couple of the graves had a pretty fancy fence around the peremeter. One even had a gate with a "door" knob for entering. All the metal in the area was covered with this red lichen material. It certainly wasn't rust. You can see the rust underneath the orangish-red material.

It is always sad to see a broken marker.

Although it is due to lack of maintenance, these seem to be leaning in to be closer together.

I thought this image was interesting. It is not everyday that you see a marker from below (at least not everyday yet!). I also found the wooden frame for the grave on the ground to be interesting. I don't recall seeing this before.

A marker for a stillborn baby in 1948.

This is one of those markers that tells a tale. E did some research and she figured out that this is the loss due to a diphtheria outbreak. So sad to see a family decimated. So moving to see this horrible tragedy displayed in twitter fashion on stone.

I really have no idea where all these colors come from. A unique marker in memory of little Alfred.

Even though we are standing near a busy road, the traffic noise seems to fade away as we stood in this special place. Although you can see the road in the background in several photos, I bet you may not have noticed it until I now call your attention to it. This is one of the great things about visiting a cemetery. It creates its own world for a few minutes. The animals respect this cemetery as well. Some places we've seen in Tasmania are nearly wall-to-wall wallaby/pademelon poo. This one had hardly any.