*** A reminder, particularly to new geocachers, that in order to claim an online find, you must retrieve the physical cache container and sign the logbook within it. Please make sure you have a pen/pencil with you. This is a fundamental rule of geocaching.
Totally Findable Tourist Caches
Welcome to Sydney
This series of geocaches is designed primarily with visitors to Sydney in mind who may have limited time and transport options and want a quick and easy find while out enjoying some sightseeing around this beautiful city.
All cache containers will be one of three types; a flat magnetic key case (MKC), a round film canister (FC or MFC for magnetic) or a fake rock (FR).
The hint will indicate the type of container used and will be very specific to help you find the cache easily. If you want a challenge to find this cache and don't wish to know exactly where it's hidden, do not look at the hint.
At each location you’ll be given some information about the site you are visiting.
Enjoy!
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Haymarket
This area is known as Haymarket. In 1829 the valley south of Bathurst Street was designated as a site for cattle and corn markets. The Haymarket, as the place became known after Governor Bourke moved the grain and hay traders to this site, was a convenient stopping place for farmers' bullock carts before the long haul up to the city's market buildings where the Queen Victoria Building, opposite the Town Hall, is now located. If you haven't been to the QVB, it's well worth a visit!
As time went on, Sydney's fruit and vegetable markets were established here and remained in use until the 1980s when they were moved to a modern facility at Flemington, a western Sydney suburb. Paddy's Market still operates as a produce and flea market today, on part of the site of the old fruit and vegetable markets.
The origin of the name "Paddy’s" is obscure, but it has been in use since at least the 1870s. It was most likely "borrowed" from England. The Irish area of Liverpool had a well known Paddy’s Market. A Paddy’s Market was an open-air affair, a mixture of merry-go-rounds, sideshows, saveloy sellers, farmers with produce and animals for sale, second hand dealers, craftsmen and members of the rag trade. It was an Irish tradition – hence the name “Paddy’s” – and it was only natural that it should spring up in a colony that had received 30,000 male and 9,000 female convicts directly from Ireland, as well as thousands of Irish immigrants from places like Liverpool.
Modern Haymarket