Motivation
Who hides a cache does it for he wants to show to the others something interesting and/or nice. Sometimes the hiding person is somehow bounded to that place. For more than 20 years, I spend a part of my summer holiday hereabout and during these stays, I passed daily the cache and other places I want to show you. This is the place I learned to windsurf, here I swum nine times accross the lake and since the last years, this is the starting point for geocaching in this region.
Things to see
If you visit other beaches or promenades around the lake, you notice that the shore is strenghened everywhere by the same sort of red stones. These stones came from one of the quarries on the North side of the Balaton and Pálköve (Paul's Stone) is the one closest to the lake.
Nowadays the quarry is not operating any more, however in the 80-s one could hear from hundreds of meters, how the huge stones roll down to the bottom of the tow-boat. Although the loading port is quiet now, it still reflects the atmosphere of the past. On the contrary, the major part of the quarry is covered by lush vegetation.
Another spectacular point of Pálköve, interesting mainly just for Hungarians is the house of Bajcsy Zsilinszky Endre, a Hungarian journalist, a contradictory person in our history. Even people regularly spending their summer in Pálköve don't know about this hidden secret squeezed on the narrow shore in front of the railway since it can't be seen neither from the water because of the reeds nor from the rails because of bushes and
trees.
Approach
Leaving Révfülöp towards Badacsony on route No. 71 or on bicycle track running in parallel with it, we can turn left to Pálköve at three different points (waypoints D1-D3).
The Bajcsy Zsilinszky museum STAGE1
Because of changing status of the supervising authority, the museum is temporarily closed. Those who want to enter the site, have to call aunt Gizike: +3620 4460976.
There are three gates leading into the fenced site, usually all closed, however all of them have an easy "workaround". Thus if you want to see the house and its neighbourhood only, you can choose from the following ways:
1. Passing by the fence of the beach, you arrive to a rickety gate. It seemes to be closed but can be easily removed and then put on its place again.
2. An other gate can be accessed from the loading port and there is a gap next to the gate.
3. The third gate is between the beach and the house. You may ask the beach staff to open it for a while (tipping recommended).
Arriving in summer, a good option is to reach the place from the water by swimming, surfing, kayaking, e.t.c.
The loading port STAGE2
Unfortunatellly, this quiet point is now closed and under completete destruction and reconstruction. Formerly it has been the harbour of the nearby quarry mine (where the cache is hidden). At the weekends the shore was a popular fishing spot, in good weather you could see here swans, too. Reconstruction work aims to revert this hideaway place to a yacht harbour which shall certainly lead to an increase of traffic to and from the spot.
The cache FINAL
The cache is hidden in the rear part of the quarry, where the chances you'll by noticed by somebody during managing the cache are quite slim. Close to the cache, a bit left to that you can see the a naked part of the original stone. Don't try to climb up on this steep slope, for it is dangerous and anyway, it's pointless since the upper part is private and fenced around along the whole length.
Short summary about Pálköve
Since the number of permanent residents of Pálköve is less than 100, administratively it belongs to Kovágóörs, a small village which is also between Révfülöp and Balatonrendes. Being off the main road, until the 80-s Pálköve remained almost undiscovered by the public. First to appear here were Germans from the former DDR who arrive here to visit their Hungarian friends. They then quickly spread the news about this picturesque bay among others and also due to political changes in 1989, within a decade the place became year by year more popular among other foreigners, too. Inspite of this, Pálköveis still quieter than other villages in the region.