Hunt's Soak Traditional Cache
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The Golden Pathway: Hunt's Soak (Reportedly the Goldfields oldest European Landmark, circa 1865)
The first explorers.
Explorers had passed through this area decades before gold was discovered. H M Lefroy, for example, in his Journal of the Eastern Exploring Expedition (1863) declared that the area had great agricultural potential. The area had also been explored by Charles Cooke Hunt (who sunk a few wells) and John Forrest.
The search for gold.
Thomas Riseley was a party leader of a prospecting team employed by the Phoenix Prospecting Co. This is an account of his first search in this area.
"Myself, Toomey and Charlie Crossland, started out from our camp at Barcoyton. After prospecting the belt for some days our water gave out. Our blackboy whom I call Wheelbarrow, said he knew plenty of Gabby (water) at Koorkoordine. When we got to Koorkoordine we found one of Hunt's dry wells, just as dry as we were. We decided to start back through the night and return to our camp, distance about 40 miles, and we travelled by the Southern Cross - taken to stars to the north - thanks to Charlie Crossland's knowledge of the stars. Or our bones would be bleaching in the scrub now, as we were two days without water at this time. We had to remain at our camp until rains came"
An account of what happened next can be found on GC17QKW Riseley & Toomey
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