A Cross My Way

On the picture below in my last polish post You can see the view from my new room I rent in St Leonards. Recently it is all the time dark and drizzling, showering, raining… Nevertheless I moved for exploration of my surroundings. The traffic is very tiring but Sydney city offers quickly a relief for pissed-off walkers. I entered a beautiful green area. Just turn left from Flat Rock Drive into path walk which leads to Flat Rock Park:

Up and down, across the creek
Pawel’s jumping on his feet : )

Fully refreshed, I again hit the road through tiring noisy streets. Gore Hill Cemetery grabbed me firmly and sucked me in. In this way I found another oasis of peace. It looked like only spiders guards in here. The stone graves stick out shyly from the grassy plants:

It is I think only in Poland where you don’t let the people be buried in peace like this. We spend a lot of money to build up huge, weather-proof graves. If we continue this way my country will look soon like one big cemetery. I wish I could be buried somewhere under beautiful tree without concrete pill-box (bunkier). I could leave maybe only a small stone with inscription of wishing well to that tree : )

On 19th May, 1868, this site of approximately 6 hectares was dedicated as a general cemetery at the request of William Tunks, M.L.A for St Leonards. Gore Hill Cemetery, as it was to be known, is one of the oldest and largest general cemeteries remaining in the Sydney Metropolitan Area. The year 1974 was the year of the last burial (pogrzeb).