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), 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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Canoes, Cargo and Culture
Walsh Bay Finger Wharfs
This precinct is known as Walsh Bay. It is the historic docks zone around the western headland of Sydney Cove; where British colonists anchored their First Fleet and founded the Port Jackson convict settlement in 1788.
The Gadigal People
The area was originally occupied for thousands of years by the Aboriginal Gadigal people for camping, canoeing, cockle-gathering and spear-fishing. As the European settlement grew, this area became the catalyst for the bustling Darling Harbour cargo port during the 19th and 20th centuries. Since the early 1980s, Walsh Bay has led new cultural, commercial and residential renewals north-west of the city centre.
Henry Deane Walsh and his Family
The bay was first named in 1918 on drawings of a major new ‘wharfage scheme’ to modernise all Sydney’s docks to handle steamships and motor vehicles. The rejuvenation was planned by Henry Deane Walsh as engineer-in-chief of the Sydney Harbour Trust. Its then chairman, Robert Rowan Purdon Hickson, lent his name to Hickson Road, the new freight thoroughfare around this headland.
Vivid Festival in Walsh Bay
Vivid Sydney is an annual festival that celebrates creativity, innovation, and technology through a combination of light installations, music performances, and ideas exchange. The festival transforms the city into a vibrant hub of artistic expression for 23 days and nights. Each year, the area around Walsh Bay is illuminated with a magnificent show of colour and creativity.
Today, Walsh Bay is a major cultural centre particularly in the performing arts with organisations such as the Sydney Theatre Company, the Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Chamber Orchestra having their home here. It is also a highly sort after residential area.
Sydney Dance Company
How wonderful it is to see the heritage of the old finger wharfs has been preserved for future generations.
Source: walshbayhistory.net; Google AI Overview - Vivid