 Ghostly T(r)ales No 3. The Squatter's Daughter.
A cache by Mr Walker Hidden: 1/4/2006
Size:  (Regular) Difficulty:  Terrain:  (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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Tupperware container concealed from casual view.
This medium size cache contains some more spooky/glow in the dark
items with the log book and pencils.You don't have to maintain the
theme, but if you can it would be good.
The mid 1800's. Pastoralists are opening up the grazing land around
Pt. Lincoln, while a troop of mounted police has been sent from
Adelaide to put down an Aboriginal uprising, largely generated by
conflict between sheepherders and hunters from the local clans. Pt.
Lincoln is almost abandoned, with the town locked down at night.
Buildings from this era still display the walls with gun-slits
built for defence.
In this atmosphere, love blossoms between the beautiful, and very
young daughter of a Poonindie pastoralist and a handsome, but poor,
trooper from Inspector Tolmer's troop. Once the girl's father
discovers what he feels is a totally inappropriate relationship, he
forbids them from seeing each other. As young lovers are wont to
do, the two continue to meet in secret. Their trysting place is a
beautiful pool on the Tod River near Poonindie, concealed by
surrounding vegetation. One day, however, one of the pastoralist's
shepherds spies the couple and tells the father. Furious, he has
words with Tolmer, who reassigns the trooper far away. Broken
hearted, and after angry words with her father, the girl goes once
more to their meeting place, dressed in her finest clothes and new
red leather shoes. Taking off her shoes, she places them in a nook
on the bank, and drowns herself in the pool. Far too late, her
father and some of the shepherds search for her,finding her body in
the pool. They take the body home, but no one thinks to look for
her shoes.
As settlement continues, a ford develops across the Tod near the
lover's pool. Quite a few people report seeing a young girl sitting
or standing by the ford. She is dressed in fine clothes but
barefoot, and crying. Later a bridge is built, but still the young
girl is seen, now standing on, or by, the bridge. As motor cars
replace horses, the girl disappears, but a glowing light is
sometimes reported nesr the bridge, as cars drive by. Finally, the
story and the ghost are forgotten, or at best consigned to local
legend; until one day in the 1990's, when excavations of the river
bank reveal a weathered, but still idebtifiable, pair of what were
once; beautiful, red, ladies shoes. Now the old story comes to
light once more, although this is one ghost who seems to have
finally found peace. Still, on a quiet moonlit night, if you drive
slowly over the "new" bridge, you never know what you may have the
good fortune to see.
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