Pub Crawl Mystery Cache
Philma: This cache is within the construction area of the new Barangaroo site and therefor will be archived. I looked at having this cache as an alternative type cache but it did not fall within the guide lines required.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Regards Philma.
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Take a different path to Geocaching. Welcome to "Pub Crawl"
The Rocks "Pub Crawl" is a unique way of discovering Sydney's history and at the same time claiming a cache.
Sydney was first settled by the British as a penal colony on January 26 1788 when 400 settlers and 750 convicts arrived on the First Fleet of 11 ships. The convicts had been sentenced to transportation for crimes as minor as stealing food - though there were hardened criminals among them.
More convicts arrived from England, and later Ireland. These and the soldiers sent to guard them were settled in the area named "The Rocks". They built huts of unseasoned timber or mud reinforced with twigs from trees. None remain.
Convicts were put to work under the harshest conditions to erect public buildings and homes for government officials and free settlers. Substantial early structures were built of hand-made bricks or blocks of sandstone. The oldest remaining building in Sydney is Cadmans Cottage at The Rocks opposite the main cruise ship berth at Circular Quay. Completed in 1816, it was built for a convict who had gained his freedom and became keeper of the governor's ships. It is now the Sydney Harbour National Park Information Centre.
The Rocks has the biggest concentration of historic buildings in Sydney. Most have been 'recycled' and house shops, restaurants, art galleries, and the like. Some terrace houses (strings of two and three storey houses built side-by-side and sharing common dividing walls) survived and are now much sought after as places to live. The area is dotted with pubs, including the Harbour View, the Captain Cook, the Palisade, the Lord Nelson which has traded since 1842, and the Hero of Waterloo since 1845. The 'Hero' was notorious as a source of unwilling crewmen for ships which were short-handed. Men were made drunk and dragged off by 'press gangs' through a tunnel which ran under the hotel to a house across the street from where they were taken to the nearby wharves.
The Rocks would not be the same without its historic pubs.
This cache is designed to take you to the pubs in the area for their historic value only.
Each hotel has a code. You will find that code somewhere on the exterior of the building. If you choose to enter the hotel you will find the same code displayed in the bar.
I would like to thank the staff and management of:
The Palisade Hotel.
The Captain Cook Hotel.
The Harbour View Hotel.
The Hero of Waterloo Hotel.
The Lord Nelson Hotel.
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Va gur ebbg flfgrz pbirerq jvgu yrns yvggre. Cyrnfr erpbire jura ercynpvat.
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