Palm Islands Group - Barber (Boodthean) Traditional Geocache

This cache is one of a series in the Palm Island Group.

Barber Island, known as Boodthean by the Aboriginal locals is a small island at the southern tip of Great Palm. It is the most remote of the hide locations being 12km to the smaller other islands and passage can be rough as it is 37km from the mainland.

You will need a boat and favourable winds and tides to get to the island and ideally a first mate to steady the boat as the beach is surrounded by rocks. Once you land you'll face a steep climb up rocks to GZ. Here you are looking for a small black Sistema containing a log book and pencil.

The journey will be worth the effort to make the find and even more so if you have company like we encountered.

There are ten islands of the Greater Palm group in the jurisdiction of the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council:

Curacoa (Noogoo or Inoogoo), Fantome (Eumilli), Great Palm or Palm Island (Bwgcolmen), Havannah, Brisk (Culgarool), Eclipse (Garoogubbee), Esk (Soopun), Barber (Boodthean), Falcon (Carbooroo) and Fly

Plus two islands in the Hinchinbrook jurisdiction, Orpheus (Goolboddi) and Pelorus (Yanooa) or North Palm Island.

All 12 islands now have a cache to find to encourage your visit.

Congratulations to Karicka for being the FTF.

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