Fairy Dust McMahons Point, New South Wales, Australia
By Slaytornator on 25-Sep-11. Waypoint GC34RWF

Thanks to everyone for finding this cache, especially the favourites. Unfortunately, this was a custom container (fake sprinkler) and it's too much of a hassle to replace.

Freeing up this space- hope to see a new cache here!

Cheers,

Slaytornator

AARGH! Muggled..

Will try a new container, or, I may have to archive it..

No luck with this. Had a pretty good idea what we were looking for but after scartching around in the garden for about 10 minutes couldn't come up with the goods. Lovely spot, shame we couldn't get a smiley face to go with our visit.

I had to spend a couple of hours on the roof of the wharf this morning, freezing my butt off in the cold southerly. But it now has a bigger mast that we got up before the rain.

After the job it was time to look for the cache. Found the first clue but the 2nd wouldn't come to light even though I had my suspicions what I should have been looking for. A pretty good search near the path and the geotrails and I came up blank - there is a lot of newish looking mulch on the garden so I hope it hasn't either been buried or removed by overenthusiastic council workers. Thanks Slaytornator, a shame I couldn't add one to the total as I am getting ready to move house so keeping up one a day is going to be a bit hard this month.

[After seeing a string of DNFs I managed to get round to checking on it. It's all their,] I guess after time dirt and wood chips accumulate and cover it.

CACHE ON!

We were over from NZ, staying in Milsons Point and took the ferry to find this cache. In between the walkers, dogs, buses and ferries, we managed to have a fairly good look, found the hint item, but could not find a cache. Thanks anyway Slaytornator

Stopped by here at 11pm-ish on a fri night. A few couples sitting on benches and picnic rugs, but thankfully not close to GZ. Co-ords put us out in the middle of the grass >_< ...but after reading clue, we repositioned ourself closer to the true GZ. Despite having an inkling as to what we were searching for, the lack of light was against us this evening (torch sadly ran out of batteries). Will have to come back and look for this another time, hopefully during daylight hours!

I was on other geocaching business here this morning and saw that this was close by. It was difficult to have a good search given the foot traffic about, and now reading past logs I amy have been in the wrong place, as nothing revealed itself to me today.

I'll be back
TFTH

Searched for one personhour (4 people x 15 mins) to no avail. Guess from the logs we must have seen it without realising. Perhaps next time. Back to WA in the morning.

We had to wait and wait and wait for the muggle wedding snaps to finish, then it was in for the kill. We used a Phone-a-Friend to see if we could grab it while the party were there, but they confirmed what we hasd guessed and so we had to wait.

TFTC.

Very cleverly hidden! Curious Muggle on bench, but using my camera as a decoy helped him to lose interest. TFTC.

This entry was edited by bmrbabe on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 08:41:41 UTC.

A steady flow of muggles, but it was easy to look like I was waiting for the bus or ferry...
I was about to give up, then read the description one last time. Nice one. For such an open area, the GPS signals are sketchy here.

A nice hide. I spotted it pretty quickly. My last find in North Sydney this morning before catching the ferry back to Circular Quay. SL TFTC

Picked up while in north sydney this morning
Tftc

Hi slaytornator,
Log is full, need a replacement soon...thx! Barry&Jo

Being from Canada we like to spend as much time as possible on the water front of Sydney Harbour, paricularly McMahons Point as we have a flat not to far away. We've enjoyed many moments on the benchs around the point. Nice quick grab. T4TF Barry & Jo

Nice one!! Easy but clever.

Making all of my caches PMs (apart from one) because of mugglings and what not..

Had a great walk across the Harbour Bridge and around Lavendar Bay on a gorgeous day. Nice to finish with an imaginative cache in a beautiful spot, too. TFTC!

Nice little hide. TFTC
Found with GeoFather.

What a great hide in a fantastic location. Found with geoson. Tftc

Can't believe how easy this one was on the second attempt after spending ages here searching last year! Not too many muggles in the evening, just a couple chauffeurs who were more interested in their iPads! T4TC

Thanks.. the first on Sunday. J-LEST-TEAM

An instant find, just the most spectacular views from this vantage point, seriously some of the best in Sydney.

Cheers

Great hide ,,,, well done .

Nice area with some excellent views of the harbour bridge. A wedding nearby made us play the waiting game a bit. But cache was found quickly and replaced without trouble. TFTC.

Found it between two ferries.
Very nice camo, well done!
The view is exceptional, even if it rains.
TFTC!

Wow! What a container I was looking around for ages, where I thought MUST have been the right spot from the hit, until I realised. Awesome to get a good find feeling!
TFTC, CptnKase :-]

Our cache no. 7 in Sydney. We took the ferry to this beautifull place. We think the coordinates are a little bit of. About 10 meters ... But we found it. Nice hint.
TFTC

This was the last cache we found before we departed on the ferry. All in all a good day of geocaching...but then when is it not a good day to cache??? I almost gave up but my geobuddy, Melelina, wouldn't settle for a dnf so she persisted and voila, she found it. TFTC

Our coords were a bit off but the nice hint made it a find for us. All 4 "slaytornator" finds for us today were all different and interesting. I would have given them all favorite points, but as I only had one remaining I gave it to 11/11/11. Good job slaytornator! Did not see any TB in the cache. Could be wrong, but did not see "Happy" there.

This entry was edited by melelina on Friday, 27 January 2012 at 01:34:26 UTC.

Greetings from Nasville, TN USA! First find in Australia. Left a tb TFTC!

Nice one! I have a container very similar to this one all primed and ready to hide back home. Just have to sort out a proximity issue... Anyway, it took a bit of a search but otherwise no problems here. Thanks for bringing me to another great spot to view the harbour. TFTC, Biggles.

On our last stop before flying out of Sydney we wanted to enjoy another view of the City skyline. Great spot for a Cache.
TFTC says Team Schnuffi

Finally found this one on our third attempt. Of course now cannot understand how we missed it before. SL. TFTC.

Clever, clever, clever!

Could use a new log paper as we had to write on the back.

A quick find once the GPSr settled and the muggles cleared our on the bus and ferry. Grab the cache and sat on the seat to do the signing duties. Put the cache back together and put it back in its spot.

TFTC

#940; GAFF3; Sunny; Helpers, None; Condition, Good; Finds2Day, 1st; STATUS, Found; GPSr @ GZ, 10m

Needed to get a find today and was grabbing the WP for the Postcards cache, so walked down here for this one. GPSr seemed out and had me nowhere near the path. So armed with the hint and expanding my search I saw something that looked to be the cache. Checked and BAM found it, but 10m out. SL and replaced. Clever one. This wasn't even muggled during the New Years Eve fireworks as the place was packed, TFTC.

Found it on my second try. I had been by a couple of days earlier and actually spotted it, but kept on going.

Hi-

Found the cache with my sister: YMaryB, and my Dad.
Before we realised that the cache was the small, discguised thing infront of us, we looked all around it !!!

We loved Sydney and being in Australia, especialy missing schooool !!!!!!!!

Anyway...TFTC

Took a walk around the bay after a visit to Luna park. Beautiful views. Pencil was AWOL. Tftc

Loved the cache design. Saw it quickly but ignored it. Came back for a closer look 5 minutes later and voila - the cache! A beautiful part of Sydney. TFTC.

Well hidden but easy to spot when you have seen a similar one before. TFTC.

We were in Australia on a one-month holiday. After a stopover in Hong Kong, we started our trip in Cairns. We went scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef and got our SSI Open Water Diver certification. Our next stop was Port Douglas, from where we visited the Daintree Rainforest and went Jungle Surfing. After this we travelled to the Red Centre, and visited Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon and Alice Springs. From there we went south to Adelaide and visited the Barossa Valley and Kangaroo Island. Next destination: Melbourne. We made a road trip along the Great Ocean Road to get there. From Melbourne we flew to Sydney.

Today we went sightseeing around the Harbour Bridge area. Of course we also did some geocaching.
Great views of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House from this location! Very nice hide, TFTC!

Found on 06-12-2011 at 14:50h.

Nicely crafted. TFTC

The first of six on a cool, windy day - just great for a walk by the harbour. TFTC

Found whilst on a weekend visit from Newcastle. Very clever disguise well done. TFTC.

cheers team wooness

Funny hide, great idea.
Thanks Kongo1506

Clever hide! Fairly muggle proof, assuming they're not watching. Took TB, SL, TFTC!

Looooved this one, I laughed a lot when We found it... Not quite what I had expected! Bravo! TFTC

Found after 20 min of search, really funny cache.

Picked this one just in front of car filled with people. They didn't seem to bother about what we were doing.

I have chosen this cache to be the one on 1/11/11. I do not regret my decision. Great hide and container that I never seen before. You deserve 1 FAVORITE POINT. It was a bit challenge as my Samsung Galaxy S2 was pointing me 4-5m from the cache. Thanks for bringing me here.

How did I get to this cache? 5 mins walk from my home to Milsons Point/Luna Park Warf, 2mins on ferry and 20sec walk from Mcmahons Point Warf to GZ

TFTC TFTH
TNLNSL

#139

Stopped by on a morning ride and waterfist realised there was a cache nearby! Spent a little time to get the GPSr to settle but found easily in the end. Nice job on the cache container!

Stopped for a rest on our regular morning bike ride. It looked like a perfect spot for a cache so checked the app and found this was only 5 m away! My first ever cache used a similar camo technique with a similar clue. TFTC.

Good cache. Was on a bike ride and was just there. Tftc

Thank-you Slaytornator for the cache. A cunning hide in a busy spot. Coin dip, TNLNSL TFTC -=M=- [xx(]

Fabulous spring Sunday afternoon. Great day for a walk. Even better for finding a cache. We were totally quizzical over the clue before we arrived at GZ and just started laughing when we saw what it was because it is exactly as described! Who would have thought? Clever hide and good idea for waterproofing. TN L a cute blue koala pin SL TFTC Cheers.....Gaztek

Great little hide, haven't seen one like this. Thank goodness for the clue though or I would never have found it.

Thanks for showing us this fantastic view on Sydney.

After two DNF's this morning, I was starting to doubt my caching radar. I approached GZ with some trepidation but my caching Karma was restored. Nice Hide slaytornator and fanstastic views.

This day also celebrates my caching Odyssey to complete a cache on each calendar day. It has taken me 21 months and I now have found a cache on 365 days of the year. I am looking forward to February 29 next year when I can complete the elusive extra step.

This entry was edited by toadmiester7 on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 at 02:28:55 UTC.

Our GPS was playing up today, so the co-ordinates might usually be accurate, but we were first led a full ten metres from the cache. Of course, there was a really clever hint, so after we read it the cache was soon retreived. Great cache! Found one like this before in Canada - and it's a lot harder there - the real ones are everywhere! TFTC!

#283 Found this on my 2nd try. There was a lot of trash in the "garden", and that put me off from trying to look for the cache. What I should have done was to bring a trash bag and clean up the area while trying to look for the cache. That way I wouldn't have looked suspicious, and would've practiced Cache IN Trash OUT. The view from McMahon's Point never fails to awe me every time I go here. I wonder how busy it can be during New Year's Eve fireworks. Thanks for taking me here again. TFTC!

I get the river cat to/from here monday to thursday but this was the first time i have had a chance for a proper look. The place was heaving with people at 5.15, of course, but luckily they were mostly too interested in getting home to notice my investigations, luckily too i have seen a couple of 'these' before so a quick grab without needing to use my GPS. Nice work, slaytornator, TfTc [:-)]!!

Wow!!!!!
What an amazing cache!!!
Wow!!!!!
With what amazing views!!!!!
Wow!!!!!
What a container!!!
A must do cache for anyone!!! A definite favourite point from me soon!!! Well done Slaytornator!!
I will upload the photos as soon as I can!!!!
TFTAmazingC TNLN

Photo 1!!!

Photo 2!!!

Photo 3

Last photo!!! Sorry, I can only upload one at a time from the iPhone app!!! Photo 4!!!

Found by nanny and Bo on an overcast Saturday afternoon.
A magnificant view and a inovative cache.
Thanks for bringing us here.
SL.
TNLN.
TFTC.

Found by the Unfab four.
SL
No swaps.
TFTC

I wondered why this had lasted so long. I'll just post 2tf and let the usual suspect brag about their skills! TN. SL. Left pirate fish.

Wohoooo FTF @3:17PM
Geodad was in North Sydney so a quick text told him to head down to this treasured location. Have never seen one of these containers yet but still knew what was looking for. Took a while as a GPS was not used. A very nice cache which was well presented. Must still get around to placing one for me
TFTC
Took: TB
Left: Nothing
SL
Many thanks Slaytornator for showing this hidden gem to us.

This entry was edited by akkatracker on Friday, 30 September 2011 at 06:33:58 UTC.

My geocontact in north sydney might be on his way

Published

TB drop!