Elsey Cemetery National Reserve

An historic site with little care

We drove to the Elsey Cemetery where it was a bit disappointing to find the whole area was overgrown and while this is an historic site there didn’t seem to have been much care put into it’s upkeep. T...

Peaceful place to reflect.

It’s worth the drive to this cemetery, only 8 odd ks from the highway turn off. Full of history from times gone pass. It gives us an idea of how hard life was back then.

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Quiet little bush cemetery of particular interest to local history buffs or those who read the book or saw the movie "we of the never never". Only a few graves there ... Can't imagine the area as the...

SCARY WHIRLY WIND

Having known the Elsie story for many years, we went for a look at the original homestead site and then the Cemetery. Its a bit of a walk from the road to the graves, and as we walked toward them the...

We of the Never Never

After going to the homestead replica at Mataranka and watching the movie again, we were interested to see if we could find the cemetery. First found one cemetery at Mataranka only to discover we were ...