Dilyan's Grave Marradong, Western Australia, Australia
By Lachlan1.77 on 13-May-22. Waypoint GC9THX6

It's the time for Mr Hunters' to take his big annual leave chunk for the year, 1.5 years into his first full time social work role in his home city of Canberra. This year, I decided to jump on my parents' holiday to Perth (next week) but beforehand, I wanted a solo geocaching splurge. I spotted the LGA series not too far from Perth, so I soon booked accommodation for 5 nights in Boddington with the intention to finish the entire series within that time. I was really looking forward to some quiet time for solo geocaching and to have simple pub meals in a quiet country town, I've been extremely busy over the past few months and given my job involves a lot of emotional energy, I wanted to visit a secluded location as far away from home as you can get, absolutely brilliant.I leave Boddington tomorrow so today, I took a lovely country drive to the mines, Quindanning, Williams and Wandering to collect some of the caches near the LGA series that I skipped during my big run on the series, plus some extra ones that I wanted (i.e. virtual and AL). Lovely walk to GZ, I appreciated the heads up about the trail and signage otherwise I would've parked on the highway. Great to see this cache highlighting local Aboriginal history. TFTC.

Heading home after the Wandering for the music festival .Hopefully also grabbing a few smilies along the way . Happy to come up trumps here. Some logs signed as N20 This is my 14223 find Thankyou Lachlan1.77 for placing and maintaining this cache for others to find .

Thank you! Took advantage of the sunny day to take dad for a drive. We ended up in the Boddington and Quindanning area, finding a nice variety of caches.Happy to make the find here.

I went for a walk to Dilyan's gravesite as Simone was completing a multicache nearby. I didn't realise there was a cache not far from the grave until I walked out and then Simone told me. We walked back in and made a find quickly- TFTC.

A proactive maintenance check was conducted on Sunday 7/7/2024. The cache and logbook were found to be in working order.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 44 - Wandering to Collie via Boddington. On a very overcast day, with a bit of a mist about in the morning I headed off from Wandering. The cluster of caches at Crossman was first, then a difficult but interesting look around Boddington. Plenty of interesting artwork to see and after three shops, I found a morning snack. I visited a few cemetery caches and the did some more LGA caches to flesh out the days caching. The last cache was a tribute to mining and done just before arriving in Collie to get set up and go and have a look around town. Before going into the cemetery to have a look, I went for the short walk to this remote grave. he cache was found without any problems.Thanks for the cache Lachlan1.7747573.6 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & December 2020 Gift of Geocaching A#431**Albida**

TFTC.

Thanks for the cache. Nice little walk to find this one after completing the multi cache at the cemetery

Thanks for the cache. Interesting bit of history. Last one for the day with caching buddies JABETS

Found while camping at Easter

Nice walk, interesting history!Headed into Boddington to grab a few supplies, nice to clean up a few more in town.Thank you Lachlan1.77 for placing and maintaining Dilyan's Grave for us and others to find and enjoy!

Thank you for the hide

Great spot. Pity he was buried separately from other people.

After an overnight stop at Boddington, we are headed down to Pinjarra. Luckily our phone rang and we found a parking spot to pull in with the car. we noticed a geocache that we hadnt found it before and while in chatted on the phone I wondered over to find this very interesting site. There are a pair of prescription glasses that somebody has left right by the cacheThanks for bringing us here

TFTC. Enjoyed the wildflowers as we made our way along the trail to Dilyan's Grave. Nice quick find

PP1 studied the monument and plaque while I dealt with the cache. A very interesting and sad story. Thanks for bringing us here & TFTC Lachlan1.77

A maintenance run to LGA territory with Granett and Allied_Oz meant we would have to find a few while out and about and this was one. All respect to our pioneers. Many thanks to Lachlan1.77 for placing and maintaining Dilyan's Grave. I was here at 9:29am on Sunday and this is my find 11020.

Down around Boddington and surrounds on a maintenance run for the FoTT picking up a few unclaimed smileys in the area.A quick find by Kyzabra once at GZ in an interesting location.Lachlan1.77 I found your cache at 9:32am, this was the 4th of 25 finds for me today and brings my total find count to 8091. The cache was in good order and I replaced it as found.SLTFTC

Out on the road today with Kyzabra and Granett, for some necessary cache maintenance on a few of the LGA series in the Boddington area. We met at the Jarrahdale pub and piled into one car for the trip down. It's good to catch up after what feels like ages... have a few laughs and talk about nothing and everything. ________________Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache Lachlan1.77 you help make the game what it is today, cheers AlliedOz

A quick find here today on a meandering drive back to Perth from Collie. What an interesting location. Fave point. Tftc

Flint stones from Kalgoorlie. Very pleasant stroll. Beautiful time of the year. I hope people vote Yes. Cheers.

Enjoying the drive on the back roads and picking up a few finds along the way. TFTC.

Nice to see little items inside cache. Thanks kate

Nice quick find at an interesting place, thanks

Quick find.

Boddington camping in the RV area. Day 3
After lunch it was to do some caches closer to Boddington.
We met team BLJ2016 at this location & walked together to find this cache , what a really nice family.
Thankyou to the CO's for placing these caches.

Thanks. Almost barked up the wrong tree

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I was feeling down in the dumps as my operation had been cancelled again this week so decided that I would like to go caching today so we picked Boddington area for the trip. We collected the family from Wellard and headed south. The first cache visited was about 6:20 am with the last cache was around 3:00 pm. Was a beautiful day to be out caching except for the temperature which never got above 10 degrees after starting below 3 degrees. The bush and the views of the valleys were beautiful.

Most caches were found without problems, logs signed 'CTBHG&G' and caches returned as they were found.

Thanks to the cache owners for placing all these caches for other cachers to find.

The Better Half was down in the dumps as her operation had been cancelled again this week so decided that she would like to go caching today and picked the Boddington area for the trip. We collected the family from Wellard and headed south. The first cache visited was about 6:20 am with the last cache was around 3:00 pm. Was a beautiful day to be out caching except for the temperature which never got above 10 degrees after starting below 3 degrees.

Most caches were found without problems, logs signed 'CTBHG&G' and caches returned as they were found.

Thanks to the cache owners for placing all these caches for other cachers to find.

Tiny little one!!!

Quick find

Nice little walk easy find

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Day out in Boddington with BJA3, picking up new smiley's around town and finishing off the FOTT series.

Thanks for placing and maintaining this hide for us and others to enjoy!

In Boddington with TeamBarritts doing some Easter caching!! Tftc!!

Enjoying a short a trip to W.A. and surrounding areas with tmann421
Saw lots of sites and enjoyed the finds.
Thanks to the cache owners for the efforts involved in their hides.
Signed log tm/ww NZ

Second cache of the day before going back to the LGA trail.
Around 6-25am so barely light.

Quick find with good hint. SL *tm/ww NZ*
Thanks for the fun cache!

Detour off the highway while heading south and home. Surprisingly busy road but made a quick find at gz. Thanks for the history for this placement Lachlan.

Found it. TFTC Lachlan1.77l. Came to this area to try to finish the ones I missed in the LGA series. couldn't resist the challenge here, replaced as found.

Today the geocaching plan for TaurusSix and I was to head back out to the LGA series between Williams and Boddington to collect another string of the caches in this series. This will be the fifth time we have headed out there and we are really enjoying this series. Today we are starting at the Boddington end and we will also be collecting other caches around the area too. It is a perfect spring day and ideal to be out and about geocaching one of the best days in what feels like a long time. The fog patches were still lifting as we made our way here making the countryside look even more beautiful than ever.

This is our fourth cache find of the day. Lovely stroll to gz. The bush is looking amazing after all the recent rains and the odd wild flower is out to add to the adventure. Very interesting history and gravestone. If it was not for geocaching we probably would not have come across it. TFTC Lachlan1.77

We looked for a shirt while then checked the clue. Even then it took a while for us to locate the cache. We must be going blind.
Watch out for the toilet paper nearby maybe it's hiding a nugget. We just stayed away from it.

I was definitely stumped for a while but it presented itself to me! Thanks for bringing me to this location and for sharing the story of Dilyan. I suspect that his grave being out of the main cemetery may be a sign of the cultural norm at the time which is unfortunate. RIP Dilyan.

Strange having a grave over here. But thanks for the visit

A great piece of history.

TFTC Lachlan1.77 this is find #13763 for us.

Been driving past Dilyan's grave for many years and decided to stop and have look. Bonus points for there being a cache here. TFTC

Stopped to grab this cache whilst driving through boddington. After a short walk the cache was quickly found TFTC Lachlan 1.77

Great to start geocaching again and reading about Dylan’s grave. Thanks

A rare weekday off and a good trip out through the country side, thanks to the CO’s for the new placements TFTH

B12 and C10 mid week adventures back for their latest installment - a half day trip to Boddington and Quindanning following where a select group spent the weekend and left a few treasures behind for intrepid explorers like the B12 and C10 crew.

Had a great arvo with a stop off at the Fairbridge Lab in Pinjarra, the Dwellingup stage of the Bibbulmun track Lab and then onto Boddington and Quindanning.

A great arvo with some neat multis and trads - thanks to the COs for their caches.

Add FP.

Arrived into Boddington and set up the camper, I saw the FTF pop up but had to wait.
Sorted it out quickly and signed the log and put back.
Thanks for the hide

Published

***FTF*** @ 1540. Out caching our way down to the Quindanning Hotel to do the massive LGA series in Boddington. With Geotrakka. FTF WHOOP. Thanks Lachy

Thanks Lachlan1.77 for the new smiley!

***FTF*** 3.40pm I love the research put in the find places like this. Thanks Lachy1.77 Wrapped to get a ftf - heres a fav