Find and Sign Patrick Reidy Venus Bay, South Australia, Australia
By MalanDi on 01-Mar-08. Waypoint GC1A1DG

What a sad lonely grave. Thank you.

Another bit of history of this amazing region, tftc with jeffner5556

Cache has been wet and been replaced with a glass jar. Found near the grave with Sarge5556 tftc

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 13 - Elliston to Ceduna via Port Kenny, Streaky Bay and Smokey Bay. The day began after a very windy night with two coastal cliff drives. The Artwork was an added bonus along the way. I fell into a well laid trap to buy some extra food and made several side trips along well made unsealed dirt roads. In Streaky bay I looked around at the area we played a new years eve show back in 1983 or so. Once I was back on the main highway to Ceduna and Norseman, the caching slowed down as I have been this way several times before. I tried a great multi in Ceduna, but failed at the last hurdle on a gun before retiring for the evening.This was an out of the way roadside stop. I am glad someone knows where he is buried, so we can go and visit.Thanks for the cache MalanDi46705.10 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & CITO A#139**Albida**

Ocw the Bebes as we visit VB. Interesting story and site. Tftc

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa Exploring the area north of our campsite. A lonely resting place for poor Patrick. Tftc

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Awesome story, but so sad at the same time. Tftc

Wow, what a find!
Loved the history, a shame he broke his neck. Sad

TFTC
Cheers and Happy Hunting
Southern Cross Caching

My 8th day of my trip heading to and around the Eyre Peninsular. Stayed at Wave Rock last night then headed back to the coast and arriving in Coulta for the night. This cache would be find number 10 of 35 for the day and find Number 169 in total for this trip away.

A Quick find while heading south to Coulta for the night.

TFTC MalanDi

Been awhile since I found a 'Find and sign' cache.
After a short walk this lonely spot was found and the cache soon after.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Drove west. Found your cache

How'd you even find this spot!??

Poor Patrick. What a place to snuff it!
Another one we'd just drive past and never see without the little jar with a log book...


So what are we doing this week...

(Go west) Life is peaceful there.
(Go west) Lots of open air.
(Go west) To find caches new.
(Go west) This is what we'll do.
(Go west) Sun in winter time.
(Go west) We will do just fine.
(Go west) Where the skies are blue.
(Go west) This and more we'll do.
(Go west) Life is peaceful there.
(Go west) Lots of open air.
(Go west) To find caches too.
(Go west) This is what we'll do.
(Go west) together together we'll cache on our way
(Go west) together together you map me the way
(Go west) you cache places new
(Go west) this is what we'll do
(Go west) life is smiley there


(with thanks and apologies to the Village People and Pet Shop Boys - who must have been cat lovers!)



Many thanks for the cache hide and ongoing care and maintenance MalanDi .


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Country, Coffee, Cats, Champagne, Chocolate, and Caching...
Careful caching as always, wherever we go.
It's a dangerous world filled with rusty old mint tins and objects falling from trees
...... but a cache a day still keeps the boredom away

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Most of our caches are logged using the resources of gsak, garmin, and androids, occasionally AI too! (And a little rubber stamp )

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Keep a safe distance - clean and cache the countryside


It's awesome of all those placing quality caches out and about around our country areas,
in sensible safe places and containers especially! - it keeps our game fun, and interesting

Of course we do appreciate if you actually did read all this extra addition to the log word count! There's a challenge somewhere out there, or so we've been told! You win a virtual smiley for the effort and getting to the end of the log Maybe if I worked out where it is I could do it and go back to normal logs again ! If you find the challenge let me know and perhaps we can put an end to these long logs !!!

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The end. For now...


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Found it TFTC Found in good condition

Lonely place to die
TFTC

Nice find at a historic spot. RIP Patrick. TFTC

Very cool site

He was buried where he fell. RIP and TFTC

With geosister H423L and geodog Tonka on xmas day
Out doing our 2 favourite things Driving and caching
Poor Pattty. To be buried I’m sure so far away from family
TFTC

Another cache found with richlink during our 2022 South Australia Adventure using Geocaching as our guide.

Thanks for the cache MalanDi, a nod to our pioneers.

Out n about with ILT on a beautiful morning. Thanks MalanDi

Out exploring. Having a great day.

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

We found it but we can’t write in it because it’s wet. Thx

Airlie dad and sachi-waters fam+sachi

Out for drive lovely views.

Tftc

Fun day out, beadling along the coast with PollyWA ?? Think I discovered the best beach in Aus at Talia Cove ?? Best fish n chips at Venus Bay ??

Another quick find by PollyWA

TFTC MD ??

Book wet, needs new jar

Needs new jar

Found while out driving around muggle friends, muggle daughter and Dennisc52. Tftc

Found with Loopy1972 and muggle friends. TFTC.

TFTC. After spending ages here last time with no luck, this time found it pretty quick!

Container might need a refund-think as condensation is making log wet.

Happy caching and safe travels!

Very lonely spot out here. Cache is damp. The lid is getting rusty. TFTC.

No luck today

Tftc

A fun week away with Davidwazza, exploring the Eyre peninsula! TFTC!

During our new years break, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I headed to the Eyre Peninsula to travel around the various coastal towns. We started the trip with Jeep trouble, but then continued in our alternative vehicle without 4WD to stick to the main tourist roads where possible. We travelled south-west to Tumby Bay and Port Lincoln via Whyalla, Cowell, Cleve, Arno Bay; west across to Coffin Bay; and then north-west to Streaky Bay and Ceduna via Elliston, and Venus Bay. We then headed back east staying in Kimba via Poochera, Wudinna, Lock, and Darke Peak.

Today, [@jesswrigley](http://coord.info/PRNW59T) and I continued our adventure from Talia to Streaky Bay. We made a stop at Venus Bay, and decided to leave the boating island/peninsula caches for another visit, to continue on to Murphys Haystacks. We then drove through Calca to Point Labatt to see the sea lions and seals, and then drove north via Sceale Bay. Finally, we spent part of the afternoon driving the Cape Bauer loop road visiting Whistling Rocks, which was a unique highlight!

This appeared to be a random location, that I wasn't sure whether I was allowed to walk over the fence. However, it soon became apparent to me of the lonely grave that came into view, that was unmarked from the road. It is a shame that there isn't any signpost to it, but glad that geocaching pointed this out to me. An interesting history too. It took a few minutes to locate this cache, and the cache container and logbook were in good shape. Thanks MalanDi for the cache placement and ongoing maintenance.
Note that this geocache was logged with the *Team Warren* Davidwazza/jesswrigley stamp.

Enjoyed driving many country roads of the western Eyre Peninsula, looking at the crops, great views and finding caches
Found in the rain
TFTC

A lonely spot, cache was a quick find, one must pay respects to these early pioneers the conditions must been a real challenge in their day.
TFTC MalanDi

Interesting history!

Found It!
Odd spot for a grave. You'd never know this was here if not for the cache...
TFTC

TFTC interesting story would never have found this without the cache

Interesting story. TFTC

After staying overnight in Venus Bay, our destination for the day was Ceduna. However we first went a little south back towards Elliston as we had to bypass some caches late yesterday afternoon as we ran out of time.

This was the first cache to the south. After parking the car on the side of the road, we found our way through the fence and were soon at GZ. It was an interesting site for an old grave. Accurate coordinates led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks MalanDi for the cache.

Found during a tour of the Gawler Ranges and Eyre Peninsula for the week, on a route that saw us traveling to Kimba, Streaky Bay, Tumby Bay, Cleve and Whyalla and camping out near Secret Rocks, Kolay Hut (Gawler Ranges), Pildappa Rock, Port Kenny and Yeldulknie Weir (Cleve), all the while finding caches along the way. Thanks for the cache MalanDi!

Quick find. Interesting spot.

Found Patrick...
TFTC
Soli Deo Gloria

Heading from Ceduna to Port Lincoln, I grabbed a number of caches along the way to break my journey. A nice quick find in a place I would not have known about otherwise. By the way, the cache is now a glass jar. I kept driving down the road to check out the beach.



My thanks to MalanDi for the cache.

Found it. Wouldn't know it was there if not geocaching.

Our first for the day. TFTC

Nice quick find TFTC

Part of our great Eyre peninsula short stay. We really focussed our caching in the Elliston Region and reall enjoyed the locations the caches took us too,

We hopped fences, crossed roads, climbed tree's and hopped around like gooses, we collected many smilies while on this trip

Geocaching has given us many pleasures and this cache was one of them. Thanks to each and every team for placing caches for us to find during our short visit.

TFTC
Travellinbees

Hi there MalanDi.

We found your cache **"Find and Sign Patrick Reidy"** at 1:47:00 PM today. (This makes our find count 15687).

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip from Venus Bay to Elliston today. We moved the caravan to Elliston, & then back tracked to find this cache.. On our trip we found a wide variety of container types amongst our 5 caches (& 0 DNF's) today. Thanks for placing this cache here, without geocaching as our guide we would never have found so many interesting places on our travels.

**Coordinate Accuracy:** We found the cache around 2m from where the GPS said we should be looking.
**Cache Condition:** The container and log book are in good shape.
**Took:** Nothing.
**Left:** A Smiley Badge.

Thanks for the hunt today,

Regards

Ian & Penny.

On my this year's AUSTRALIA trip (AUS-17) also here approached and the log possibility used. Thanks for the cache.
best regards
Peter

TFTC MalanDi

Travelling on the Eyre Peninsula, and having a great time, we found this cache. It took me quite some time to find this fellow, and I reckon I looked there several times, but eventually I had success. Thanks for bringing me to this special place.

Wasn't looking for cache like that.

Found cache - lonely place for Patrick - interesting where caching takes one - pen not writing, so left another that was working on the day. Many thanks for this great cache.

With work is taking us to Ororoo, Tumby Bay, Streaky Bay and Wudinna over 4 days we take every moment to grab caches along the way, earthlight joined us for the trip and a lot of fun was had during the trip, day 3 of our trip and today we are suppose to be doing work at Ceduna but since the rain has not stopped and they are expecting 50 mm so now our job will be tomorrow so this has given us the whole day to cache this area now, as we go through and find these Find and Sign caches we were taken to some really interesting locations such as graves in the middle of nowhere, where did you find these in the first place ? very interesting doing these as we visited this town and surrounding area. TFTC

Found on a very wet day. Caching with3LG. Cemetery cache hides are 1 Of my favourite places as you can learn so much about the history of the area. Was lucky enough to locate a pathtag. TFTC

Day Fifteen of the WA road trip with BettyBoo3747. Today we drove up to Venus Bay and popped in at the caches along the coast between there and Elliston.
We seemed to be stopping in the middle of nowhere! We jumped the fence and started walking, and then we saw it - how did you find this?
Thanks, Robmc.

# 7843. Robmc and I are still staying at Elliston but with the weather improving today we are off to visit Venus Bay and find a few caches along the way.

I am enjoying these Find and Sign caches - so interesting and I wonder how you have chanced upon some of these spots. This one is another that pushes the right buttons for me as I love caches that are historical and unexpectedly interesting. Poor Patrick - it would certainly be good to know more about him. I like visiting old cemeteries and old grave sites. I left one of my new Phryne - Rose Pathtags here. Favourite point given too.

Thanks MalanDi

Would never have stumbled across poor Patrick if not for Geocaching. Took a marble and left a 1944 penny. Thought it appropriate . Done with Sujuhaje. TFTC

The mystery of Patrick. Took the puzzle to see if we can solve the mystery. Left the whistle to call for help.
Cashe now has a big glass jar with room for swaps.

Tftc. Quick find in a lonely spot

Another scenic detour off the black top was taking me to the coast
And after a sharp corner and drive over a crest, I noticed GZ slipping past me to port.
I abandoned ship and headed back up the hill on foot
But why was I headed here, there was nothing to see [:o]

I climbed through a fence and headed off in to the scrub ...
... ooh !! Well I didn't expect that
A lonely spot with few visitors except for geocachers [^]

TFTC and visit to Patrick's Place

Tftc. Found whilst on holidays at Venus Bay with the family.

We are now into Day 11 of our Oz Mega 2014 Event trip. We have been clocking up lots of kilometres and lots of caches (not able to log them until I get home, and can see it is going to be a mammoth job when I do get around to it - oh well, the price of having so much fun now!!)

Didn't have too much trouble tracking down Patrick while we were passing through. Thanks for showing us this little bit of history MalanDi

Day 11 of my trip to the Oz Mega in Murray Bridge with Mistraluna.

Heading west, sort of, again caching along the way.

Found cache without problems.

Thanks MalanDi for the cache.
(598 of 629 for the trip.)

On the road again, using caching to guide us to the sites as we explore the state on our way to the Murray bridge mega. Graves abound, we are certainly getting to see some on our run today, very interesting and love the glimpse into the past with the cache info. Tftc

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Found on a wet and miserable day. We went down to the tub and the woolshed for a visit. It was a good day to finish a great trip. We found this one destroyed but luckily we had a jar in the car. All the contents are now safe.
TFTC

Fantastic cache. Hidden near a grave that you wouldnt have known it was there. Interesting note it was also located on my late grandfathers property. Was on a family holiday visiting old childhood memories and this area was one of them Please note the container has perished so could the next person take something to replace it. We didnt have anything to use.

Cool Site

Have been wanting to get this one for about 3years and now have it

Nice hide

Another great historical cache!

Thans for another great cache in the historical series!

Patrick's Rest
Great hide Geo Friend found this took a beer to get here so I left my beer lid here
TFTC
From Geodad

Found on a day tour from Elliston during our holiday in SA touring the peninsulas. TFTC

Found during our boys fishing trip on the west coast. With the swell up and fishing too difficult, what better way to pass the time than to grab a few caches. Our first "Find and Sign" cache for the trip and one of those "who knew this was here" moment. TFTC and history.

A quick cache on the way to fishing, cool location TFTC

Would never have known the spot and the story behind it. Tftc

Here from Canada, doing a bit of caching as we explore Australia....
Too bad we don't know more about Patrick. Such a sad ending for him. Nice that you have placed the cache here so more can know of him
Thanks for the hide MalanDi!

Astrocow was here today, left a new pen. interesting place, thanks.

Interesting, and a bit sad. Poor Patrick. Found with skye pilot, ink in pen running out but didn't have anything to replace it with. skye pilot left behind the clog (fossilized tree root).

Found this one with El Josho on a scorching morning. Thanks for bringing us here. I'm glad that Patrick's grave has some visitors - such a lonely place otherwise.

Another place that one would never find without geocaching. Lovely spot, thanks MalanDi!

A lonely spot to be found at. TFTC

Found at 12.30.
TNLN TFTC

a Lonely place to die, I couldn't find the well mentioned. Thanks for the cache or we would have just driven past.

Checked today, all good.

We have been past this site so many times but didnt know this grave site was here , it was very interesting thankyou ftc

Great, would never have seen this bit of history otherwise.

Poor Patrick picked a lonely spot to end his days and a sad reflection on the times that he was burried where they found him.
Thanks MalanDi for bringing us here.

A quick find for TRR but a sad ending for Patrick - it must have been a lonely end for him. SL - no swaps. Thanks for the cache.

Who'd have known this grave existed without geocaching.TFTC

Thanx for bringing us here, MalanDi. Very interesting story. At least someone gets to visit the grave...


This entry was edited by babynomad on Tuesday, 09 August 2011 at 04:33:42 UTC.

thanks for the cache

Amazing to see lonely grave. Glad geocacher visit this site. worth to visit. Signed the log. Thanks MalanDi.