Vee's treasure Traditional Cache
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Vee Gully Creek that flows into Sommers Bay is sometimes a docile brook or raging torrent. This cache is close to State Permanent Marker 10978 that is attached to a large rock alongside the shoreline in the coastal reserve.
On Boxing Day 1842, Port Arthur convicts Martin Cash, George Jones and Lawrence Kavenagh absconded from a work party. Hiding in dense scrub land and with little food they made their way to Eagle Hawk Neck. Swimming across the bay with their clothes tied in bundles above their heads, they made the other side, all three of them having lost their bundles. Now naked the trio robbed a road gang's hut (3 Mile Hut) for clothing, and began a twenty-month spree of bushranging, robbing mail coaches, homesteads and inns. After obtaining their new stolen clothes the escaped convicts would probably have followed the coast to East Bay Neck (now known as Dunally). If so this would have taken them through Sommers Bay where they would have stumbled upon State Permanent Marker 10978 and enjoyed the (usually) permanent fresh water of Vee Gully Creek.
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Pnpur vf uvqqra haqre n ebpx n srj cnprf sebz Fgngr Creznarag Znexre 10978.
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