Around Perth with my Parents - Kangaroos and Sunsets

On this day we were en route to have lunch with a friend who lives in the northern suburbs we stopped at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, a cemetery just 22km north of Perth's city centre. Even though it's located a stone's throw from a main freeway, it's such a quiet and restful place and certainly doesn't look like a normal cemetery.

The natural bushland park has ponds and lawns and the kangaroos and other wild life are at home there among the flat bronze plaques. No headstones are permitted here, and the deceased are commemorated with plaques along the walls of the ponds or under trees all over the park.
There's a chapel for burial services and a Cafe as well.

I think this type of cemetery certainly doesn't shock the senses as normal cemeteries, and in such a relaxed atmosphere it's no wonder that this park is also used by joggers and people walking their dogs.

Being Christmas time there was a Christmas tree balloon floating from a bunch of flowers

The bronze plaques along the walls bordering the pond

You can see the extension of the park here

 Driving around we spotted a few groups of kangaroos, here a joey was trying to hide in Mom's pouch. I wonder if he still fits in there? 

This bunch was busy eating flower petals. The cemetery prefers that people don't use fresh flowers, only plastic ones, as the kangaroos tend to eat fresh flowers.

Even though they were being naughty by eating fresh petal leaves, they are so cute...

After the lovely lunch and just before returning home we headed to the beach to see the sunset. A wonderful spectacle that I never tire of!

 

Going down, down, and gone...