Time for Tea Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia
By
tronador on 23-Aug-16. Waypoint GA8423
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Multi-cache |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S33° 52.247' E151° 3.040' (WGS 84) |
| 56H 319697E 6250461N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 29 m |
| Local Government Area: | Cumberland City |
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Description
In honour of our Chinese immigrants.
This shrine was originally in the centre of the Chinese section and used by the community as a shrine for funeral ceremonial purposes. This was one of the earliest Chinese societies in the state of New South Wales. Up until the 1950s, the society helped with the exhumation of Chinese graves from Rookwood Cemetery for reburial in China, in accordance with the beliand practices of the community.
One of the most famous Chinese immigrants buried at Rookwood is Mei Quong Tart (1850–1903) was a leading nineteenth century Sydney merchant from China. He was one of Sydney's most famous and well-loved personalities and made a significant impact on the social and political scene of Sydney at a time of strong anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia.
A prominent businessman, he owned a network of tearooms in the Sydney Arcade, the Royal Arcade and King Street. His crowning success was the ‘Elite Hall’ in the Queen Victoria Market, now the Queen Victoria Building. He was also a community leader, well connected with the local political and social elites.
The cache:
Located a short distance away at:
Find the name of this monument written on the roof in front of you and the year it was erected.
S33 54.132 (minus the year the monument was erected.)
E151 03.001 (minus the total number of letters in the monument's name)
There is a coordinate checker in the column to your right.
Hints
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Decode |
Logs
Thanks for the short multi. Much easier to do yhis one during the day. TFTC
Rated: for Overall Experience
Out for another awesome day exploring Rookwood cemetery. Such a fascinating place! We visited Mr Tart’s grave yesterday. Such an interesting character. Thanks for the interesting multi. Thanks for the cache!
GCA 3,736. Found during a wonderful visit to Rookwood today with minniek.
After finishing off all the GC caches and grabbing the 3 moveables in the area, we tackled the 2 GCA Multis. We laughed as we revisited several locations in doing them. A quick search at GZ revealed the cache - Phew ! Rookwood cleaned out - for now !
TFTC Tronador !!
After finishing off all the GC caches and grabbing the 3 moveables in the area, we tackled the 2 GCA Multis. We laughed as we revisited several locations in doing them. A quick search at GZ revealed the cache - Phew ! Rookwood cleaned out - for now !
TFTC Tronador !!
Rated: for Overall Experience
Found after doing the LAB cache at Rookwood with WaywardWoman. A nice easy multi before heading home to the Blue Mountains. TFTC
Caching with oldmorty in Rookwood and found this cache by tronador. Thanks for something a little extra.
OCW frazeydaze at Rookwood doing the latest lab caches. A quick find for frazeydaze this time. TFTC Tornadoes.
I had come to Rookwood to find three SideTracked caches and while here, other caches too. It was much more pleasant driving around the roads here (and there is a cafe too) than the busy roads outside the cemetery. I worked this multi one out, but made a mistake with the calculations and was about 17 metres out. However, I spotted a likely hide and searched there, coming up with the cache. Now home on my computer I have worked out the calculations correctly. Cache, log and cute guardian are good. TFTC tronador.
I left a Bookcrossing book. Arrowed in photograph.
I left a Bookcrossing book. Arrowed in photograph.
Rated: for Overall Experience
On my way to the annual AGM for Geocaching NSW ! Great event and good to add names to faces. Just a little time left after to pick up a few caches. All caches found easily
TFTC Wilbert67
TFTC Wilbert67
tronador I found your cache Time for Tea on 04/05/19, 12:05 pm. This is my find # 110 and find # 1 today. Did the maths and a short walk to GZ for a quick and easy find. Thanks for the cache! TNSLLN
Out caching with ziggiau raiding Rookwood and Homebush for States of the Nation points. This was find 3 of 11 for the day.
These multis just keep getting better! At WP1 we spent some time admiring the structure from all angles and taking photos before I remembered we needed to collect some info. With GZ calculated it was off to make the find which was a quick one as I could just see the cache poking out of its hiddy hole. Signed the log and returned the cache with some more camo.
Thanks for another great multi tronador, what a beautiful structure.
GCA find 38
These multis just keep getting better! At WP1 we spent some time admiring the structure from all angles and taking photos before I remembered we needed to collect some info. With GZ calculated it was off to make the find which was a quick one as I could just see the cache poking out of its hiddy hole. Signed the log and returned the cache with some more camo.
Thanks for another great multi tronador, what a beautiful structure.
GCA find 38
Rated: for Overall Experience
3rd of the four multi caches in this cemetery tackled today. Walked around the cemetery and then covering the bushes & fields cachers nearby with phlphotos today. Interesting noting the many styles of head stones used and the history that can be uncovered when reading through them.
Nice to find the prize not too far away from wp1
Nice to find the prize not too far away from wp1
Rated: for Overall Experience
Decided to do a few around Rookwood today - wow what a wonderful place!
Loved the little Chinese pagoda thing close by.
Loved the little Chinese pagoda thing close by.
Rated: for Overall Experience
These Multi-caches have been on my to do list as there are a short distance from my work place. When I saw a few moveables in area – time to complete. I liked this cache – thanks for the history lesson of this person. 
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Found today with Roger, the old man made me work for it he was of little help, but I still love him dearly!
I knew something was afoot when he changed our usual lunch date from Penrith to Lidcombe!
We did make it to lunch in Parramatta a bit later.
I knew something was afoot when he changed our usual lunch date from Penrith to Lidcombe!
We did make it to lunch in Parramatta a bit later.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Well I made this much harder than it needed to be. First I stuffed up the maths with a simple error. And of course no checker on the phone app. So back to the car to fire up the laptop and realise I had made a mistake. Corrected the error and off I set again, no luck again. Then I realised I had entered the coordinates into the phone wrong, so it was off for try #3 and this time somewhere that looked much more likely and indeed had the cache fairly quickly at that point. Thanks trondador.
Rated: for Overall Experience
This part of the cemetery is amazing! They don't make things like they used to do they. I'm not sure it its the detail on the headstones, the extravagant family vaults or the shaped paths that struck Me the most. The paths I think.
Thanks for highlighting a few intersecting places here. Loved it!
Thanks for highlighting a few intersecting places here. Loved it!
#GA1321 - 17:15; Day 3 of a caching mission in and around Sydney with Sol de lune. We had now arrived at Rookwood to give this multi a try and perhaps collect a few moveables. This one appeared on the radar first, so we set about generating a solution. After correcting an initial error, we were soon at GZ and once there quickly had the cache in hand and the log signed. Thanks for bringing us back to this interesting part of the cemetery. TFTC tronador 
Rated: for Overall Experience
Always an interesting spot to visit....
Headed down towards another goal but as we went past we decided to grab this one first. Had a couple of 'moments' with the calculations but once that was sorted we arrived at GZ and made a quick find. Log signed and cache replaced and we moved off in search of a few moveables....
Thanks Tronador.....another neat little multi in this part of the cemetery.
Headed down towards another goal but as we went past we decided to grab this one first. Had a couple of 'moments' with the calculations but once that was sorted we arrived at GZ and made a quick find. Log signed and cache replaced and we moved off in search of a few moveables....
Thanks Tronador.....another neat little multi in this part of the cemetery.
Rated: for Overall Experience
How fantastic is this memorial. Lots of swimmers in the moat, agapanthus in flower and although the area is a little unkempt, it's still a fascinating spot. Made it to the GZ for an easy find, which was a relief after struggling with Louie the Fly. Thanks tronador for this convenient multi that I can use as one of my scavenges this week.
After failing on the nearby multi, we thought we'd have a go at this one and had no trouble. It's always very peaceful in Rookwood and the soft rain today made it more so. And always a very interesting place to wander
Rated: for Overall Experience
I usually have a lot of troubles with these cemetery caches, not this time, all was calculated and GZ looked very promising. Yes there it is!
Thanks for the cache and the history lesson.
Thanks for the cache and the history lesson.
Rated: for Overall Experience
Came here in the late afternoon parked my car outside the gate and walked in. Got to GZ and got the details for the final keyed those into the GPSr and off I headed and found the cache in the second place I looked. Signed the log and replaced as found. Thanks for the multi tronador
Rated: for Overall Experience
Yay FTF! Popped up right near work so couldn't end the week with this still on the map. Thought about saving it for a "Celebration Day" but I'll be moving to the city soon for work so Rookwood will no longer be a quick stop. There are so many forgotten interesting gems like this in the area it is great to have some of them highlighted. At first I made a very sill calculation error which fitted another geosportz event and oddly enough ended me up at a Chinese Temple in Berala! 
I should've looked at Google Maps more closely as it but being 1,500m away I made the wrong assumption. Seeing the cache couldn't be where the pin dropped I quickly found my silly error and returned to Rookwood to make a quick find and signed the nice and shiny new log sheet. Hope the container gets an update soon 
Popped up right near work so couldn't end the week with this still on the map. Thought about saving it for a "Celebration Day" but I'll be moving to the city soon for work so Rookwood will no longer be a quick stop. There are so many forgotten interesting gems like this in the area it is great to have some of them highlighted. At first I made a very sill calculation error which fitted another geosportz event and oddly enough ended me up at a Chinese Temple in Berala! I should've looked at Google Maps more closely as it but being 1,500m away I made the wrong assumption. Seeing the cache couldn't be where the pin dropped I quickly found my silly error and returned to Rookwood to make a quick find and signed the nice and shiny new log sheet. Hope the container gets an update soon Rated: for Overall Experience
