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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In South Australia, Australia

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John Charles Darke a surveyor and explorer on his return journey from the Gawler ranges reached these rocks, known as Waddikee Rocks, on the 22nd of October 1844.
Speared by natives the next day, he died on the 24th and was buried at the foot of Darke Peak.

Extract from Darkes journal as entered by Theakstone:

October 24...I have dressed the wounds of Mr Darke, and bled him, but found his extremities getting cold and I informed him I feared the event. About ten o'clock he told me he was dying, that mortification had taken place, he was out of pain; he gave me his last commands, and died five minutes to twelve, quite calm to the last minute.'

An easy climb to the top of Waddikee Rock gives a good view of the surrounding district.
The cache is a 2 litre container with the usual logbook and pencil, a Honda pannikin, plastic bunny, fridge magnet and plastic saw

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Cache Logs

September 21 by WanderingAus (1633 found) WanderingAus wandered by on day 110 of a "climatic refugee" trip, and made a fairly easy GAFF 1 find. I had done some serious planning to make this one my 1900th find. I read the descriptions for all regulars along the highway, and this one impressed me most. I only had to skip a couple of caches to make the numbers work out, but it was worth it. What a great spot. My find No 1900, L special 1900th Calling Card, TNLNSL, dropped my WanderingAus Happy New Year 2008 Gold GC in for a visit before grabbing it back again. Rocky Glen Grom's Froggie (ref = TB279R0) definitely is not in the cache. *Recommended* *Overall Experience: 4* T4TH ThisMechaniCan Keith [view this log]

September 20 by Lead 'n Lace (474 found) Found easily, spectacular views, went up the long way and found a shorter way down. Took screw driver, Left Finger puppet. SL TFTC Also left Mundoo's path tag for someone to log. Cheers, Lead 'n Lace. [view this log]

July 9 by back2basics (235 found) Did some interesting 4WD to almost be ontop of the GZ for a find. Getting down was even better. [view this log]

June 7 by Graham51 (164 found) The third day of our return from Kalgoorlie. Paused to climb this "hill" and TNLN. TFTC. [view this log]

May 27 by Nomads (948 found) Found by Ray and Maya at 2:10PM on the 27th of May. A nice easy find with plenty of specky views to enjoy as we filled in the cache log. TNLN. Thanks for the cache and break in the drive. The Nomads [view this log]

Current time: 11/21/2009 6:56:00 PM
Last Updated: 10/3/2009 11:41:49 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum