Maker Magic: Hide, Fave & Name Breakfast Ballarat Lake Wendouree, Victoria, Australia
By McLookers on 01-Jul-23. Waypoint GCA84G0

Thank you to everyone for coming along...great conversation and great nametags put together.

Make your hides count!!

Lovely breakfast, lovely coffee, good company and sharing of good information. A worthy Maker Magic event.Thanks McLookers for placing this Event Cache to enhance the game board and add to our enjoyment.

Of course Mary & David were there. Another dark o'clock start for us. Might finally get a normal sleep tomorrow. Happy EOFY to everyone. Only 7° though. What a lot of cachers in attendance. Great to meet more newish cachers. Ballarat is becoming the epicentre of caching in Victoria. Only had coffee as we'd already eaten. Didn't win any prizes, but it really didn't matter, as we love going to Events. M loves socialising, and D does the technical stuff - we make a good pair. Our thanks to McLookers.

A very well attended event, with some useful information and heaps of prizes. Stoked to win a Tritonz 3D printed cache. Now to think of a puzzle to go with it.

Thanks for organising and hosting this event, McLookers ??

An early start at the Lake View saw many friendly cachers enjoying a hot cup of coffee and/or some breakfast while having a chit chat about what we love the best, geocaching.
Thanks McLookers for hosting, a wonderful Maker Magic Event and sharing some useful info.

What a great way to start the day! Great venue, great brekky, great company and a great presentation. Thank you so much McLookers for this opportunity and for hosting this Maker Magic event. Keeps us all inspired to raise the bar with our caches.

Attended with catnap777. [:X]

Totally awesome catching up with all the Magic friends we have Made.
That alone sounds like Maker Magic to me.
Thanks McLookers, for the very informative show and tell you put together. [^]
We loved all the creative name badges too, especially Muzza's prize winning entry and feathertop's honourable mention.
A great start to a great day in Ballarat.

Attended with dalerious .
What a wonderful Maker Magic event. McLookers you never fail to draw a crowd .
It was a mostly seasoned group that came and participated and shared their ideas on all things caches. We came, we learned, we were inspired.
Thank you for always going above and beyond for the geocaching community .
Thank you GHQ for providing the souvenir.

09:04
Totally worth getting up at stupid o'clock to get here.

And not just because I walked away with a much coveted shiny piece of metal that will take pride of place on my display shelf.

Such an inspirational discussion of all things Geocaching. With a great roomful of wonderful people.

Thanks, McLookers. For this event, the nudge to run CITOs and other events... and of course, the generosity to pass an Unobtanium on as a prize.

Or, in my case, an Obtainedium.

#7706

*1 Jul 2023, Attended from 9:00 am, Find # 14804.*

I headed out to Ballarat this morning to attend a few events but as it turned out I only made it to this one.
A very informative and well run event.

**Thanks to McLookers for hosting this Eventcache.**

Heads to Ballarat for a few days caching and to attend this event, let’s hope it inspired some new quality caches.

Thanks McLookers for the cache.

Found by Omegaman1971

Great to be back in town for a few days to put some smiles on the map and catch up with some caching buddies at this warm event.

Cheers McLookers for the event.

After overnighting in Ballarat, it was a nice quick drive to the breakfast event this morning.

All the regular faces were there and a couple of new ones also.

Thanks McLookers for hosting this event.

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I'm coming!

I'm around here , so naturally I'll be attending this morning.

Sorry we can't get there now hope it goes well.

Very enjoyable morning. Thanks for the event

Lots of laughs and friendly people, learnt a few tips so hopefully I can hide my first cache soon! ?? Nice coffee and chicken + avo toastie, thank you!

Thanks for this event, very informative.

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Great meeting with terrific bunch of cachers ????

Thanks for organizing a great event McLookers.

Fantastic, informative, interactive and lots of fun. Thanks McLookers for all your admin skills and this mornings event.

Great roll up for a Saturday morning event. Lots of good info that will certainly help with a bit of cache placement.

Thanks for hosting McLookers....

That was a great event with helpful advice and loads of prizes.
Great venue too on a chilly morning.
Thanks Tania..

Great to see everyone on a cold and wintry day. Excellent group participation, some beautifully constructed cache containers donated by The Tritonz for prizes and of course the name tag competition. A fun morning.

Great event. Wonderful to see so many cachers in Ballarat in the middle of Winter.
Thank you McLookers for hosting this event.

I could only be in Ballarat for the morning but was glad I could make it to this event.
This was an occasion with everything - introductions, agenda, information-sharing, show-and-tell, prize-giving, and of course socializing. And a bonus souvenir for me too.
Great venue for a winter's morning - the coffee kept coming!
Thanks for arranging this, McLookers.

A big thank you to the McLookers for hosting this Maker Magic event. Well presented and it covered a great deal of relevant information for both new and old cachers and everyone in between.
A delightful venue as well.
It was a pleasant way to start our day in Ballarat.

Thanks for the great event and for the Mager Magic trackable

What a fun and interesting event, with lots of info and suggestions from the host and from the attendees. Great start to a cold day in Ballarat. Lovely warm venue as well, and with so many in attendance, it was bursting at the seams.

Thanks to McLookers for organising the event, for the the prizes as well.

I have been inspired!
New caches on the way!
Okay, maybe more CITOs.... then a cache!
Thanks heaps, Tania!

Found by Omegaman1971

See you there!!!!!

We had a lovely time at this very well attended event where cachers came from far and wide.
It was great to do all the formal introductions, followed by the formalities of ‘Maker Magic: Hide, Name, Fave and Name Breakfast Ballarat’.
Then it was back to to social catch ups before dispersing in our own directions.
Most of us reappearing later this afternoon for Tea and CITO events.
Thanks Tanya for another great event

An invitation to Koroit meant leaving Geolab at the kennels. Earliest drop off was 8.30am......... I arrived very late but left late too......... It was great to catch up with peoples - something I don't generally have the mental energy for. Many thanks

Oh, just barely missed what would have been my first event!

A useful session with lots of ideas shared by the many attendees Thanks for organising this session McLookers

Totally thought we had logged a Will Attend for this one. Apologies for the late one. Only realised when we checked the cache page tonight. We will both be there for brekky

4 of us will try and come to this event.
Got quite a few things happening!

I should be there

An early start should get me there

Looking forward to coming along. Thanks Mclookers

Don't forget to wear a name tag with your caching name and your first name. There will be a prize for the best name tag!

Hope to be there

dalerious and I are making a tentative will attend for all three wonderful events .
We are so looking forward to catching up with good friends, so fingers crossed everyone.
Thank you McLookers for always going the extra mile .

I will be there @1@

Should be able to make it @1@

Should be able to get there.

Looks like I will be back from my travels so I will be there.

@2@ attending. See you there.

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Both the Suscoes are hoping to be there.

With an early start I'll be there with Saltie. I'm hoping for inspiration to start placing hides.

See you there

Love to be there and improve my caches :)

I’m hoping to attend but I am having surgery next week so will depend on my recovery and how I am on the day. Sounds like a great event though and I’d love to attend.

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Planning to be there

I'll be there!

Sounds like so much fun! ?? X2 or x3

I'll be there

Hoping to be able to attend this event. Will depend on coming down from Ararat and Geo-Miss 4

Yes I will attend as I am hoping to do the Geo tour in the area over the weekend and would love to see some new faces. There will be two of us

Yes, we'll both be there.

Count us in.

I will be there

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I'm keen to learn some tricks & tips and for a change, according to my predicted roster............ I should be off!!! Many thanks. I'm looking forward to it