"Chefs Break" Haymarket, New South Wales, Australia
By maty061 on 20-Apr-06. Waypoint GCVJA2

well there wasnt anything at GZ, but i didnt spend very long there, as i knew that it would be as likely as winning lotto to find this cache.

Cache needs to be archived

Not so much a break as a broken, I fear!

If you ever decide to replace this one, send me an email and I can un-archive it.

Either the owner should confirm whether this is still there or it SHOULD BE ARCHIVED ASAP!!!!

Count me in with the DNFs, and I had a previous finder with me!!!

While on a business trip from Rest on, Virginia, USA, my colleague and I decided to do a little caching.

As with previous cachers, we had a DNF as well.

The chefs were having a large time with us. They obviously knew what we were doing as they continuously pointed us toward a blue pole across the street (an remote from coordinates). There's nothing near that pole except what non cachers have deposited. Don't listen to the chefs.

I agree that the owner should verify existence and if not, archive...

Hunted every tree and bench - Came back at night and did it again, tried again next day. Think the taxi drivers thought us mad.

Must have gone.

there is nothing....
besides some chefs.
check and replace or archive it.
Alpini

Decided to look one last time, usless to do so really, there aint nuffin to be found. Time to say goodbye and stop this from showing up on active cache lists.

No find today as well. This one definitely needs a look. Can this one go on the archive list until the chef checks his stew?

The chefs were there, but no sign of the cache.

Definately not at easy one if it is still there. It would be good if the owner could confirm given the number of recent DNF's.

Only found female hygiene product...

This cache may have attached itself to a cab and gone for a ride.

Did Not Find #5 on ssmc4 & Raskal3 's "Sunny Sydney Sunday" expedition. It was dark but we had a good search guided by the clues, even with the waiting cab drivers nearby. We agree with prevous logs that a check of this one is required.

Thanks maty061

It wouldn't be a day of caching in Sydney without a couple DNFs. No chefs on Sunday afternoon, but no cache to be found either.

With 3 of us searching, none of us saw any sign of this one. Perhaps a check is in order?

No sign, so gave it away.

This was a tough find. I had some help. tftc. sl. tnln. Log is full and wet. Northpolecat

A.D. and I fiddled and parted ,to look in two different directions but alas a DNF. we didnt care that the 2100 Muggle traffic Taxi traffic and Chef traffic were a'wandering wot we were doing.
Boo Hoo
Acko

searched extensively on around and under "all three" . It might need checking by the chef. I fear a muggling has taken place

Had this TB with me when I found this Cache wanted to give the miles.

I looked at allv the 3 places the hint said & all the others too, and with many eyes nearby I had to give up the search and come back another day.
Roostaman.

Found it with a few other Sydney CBD caches with abowie while waiting for planes after OzTek 07, lots of chefs, long breaks - had to come back 3 times! TNLNTFTC

Found at 1210hrs on 19/03/2007 with DJOT.

We had to return after waiting for the chefs to return to work.

TNLNSL

No chefs but a few taxi drivers to avoid.New logbook is needed as I squeezed in my sig.

another marginal caching experience (my mind must be elsewhere). you'd think that someone with a gps would know north from south. apparently not. that or the previous cacher was in a playful mood. took 10 cents for my troubles. tftc. not a cook to be seen. plenty muggles tho.

We had to try this one a couple of times before we could tick it off. The GPS was not much help with the trees and buildings etc. Not to mention the taxi drivers, hire cars and those Chefs. Eventually found it a place I'm sure we check the first time.

Well done

TFTCSL

Our second cache of the day with The Wandering Wilkos and another one that we had already had two attempts at already.

On our previous attempts we found all of the places it wasn’t but couldn’t look everywhere because of the amount of taxi drivers hanging around, can only assume that they were very slow day for cabs.

Good to find in the end.

I have found this cache as part of JADE004, but have now created my own separate account (therefore I am not shown in the log book under this username).

We found this cache after a busy day. GeoMum forgot to pack the sheet so we didn't know the clue or information. Luckily GeoKid remembered what it said and we found it within 2 minutes.
Thank you maty061


[This entry was edited by JADE004 on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 3:17:57 PM.]

Realised that when at GZ had been here before, took coin anyway.

Took me a little while to find it - taxi drivers were probably wondering what I was doing... Nobody else really seemed to notice. Saw two chefs, and got pictures of them, I'll post the picture when I get home (late May) to the U.S.

t: Alaska geocoin (although, when I took it, it was a mystery to what geocoin it was - doesn't say on it at all)
l: Kansas sunshine geocoin - this is the first micro cache I've came upon that was big enough to hold it.

Oh, yeah, one more thing - the logbook in the cache is full.

TFTC!

Finally found this one. Must have been jetlagged on my previous attempts. Left a Geocoin that has been stranded in Hong Kong for far too long, and is eager to move. Thanks!

This one required patience as not only do chef's take a break here, but taxi drivers also take a break and lots of muggles also like to wait around for other muggles...went to look at the shops only to return and find another set of muggles...but our patience paid off...thanks Maty061 for the find. We did encountered some chefs as you can see...anyone you know?

Found with the help of geokids playing a decoy game of coin flipping. Log book now full.

Hit this one during lunch
One in a bunch
No chefs around
So cache was easily found
Thanks guys for a nice easy one
Gotta go, I’m on the run!

Found this afternoon at 1pm with Atificus. No sign of Snoopy or any chefs.

TFTC!

Found this morning, agree no Sign of Snoopy
SL TNLN

Passing travel bugs through the cache, they just arrived in Australia.

Found it with Wasptor, great hide, TFTC

Found this around 18:40, and it was made pretty easy, as what did I find, a chef sitting on a seat. But as this chef was with a mate who was having a smoke, it wasn't a chef on his own. Just as we pulled out the camera for the bonus point photo, the chef took off. Had to wait for 10 minutes for his mates to leave so I could pick up the cache. Finally got to sign the log book after a wait.

When I came here the first time three Chefs were using this place and there was no way of finding the cache, when i returened the next day it was raining and I was successfull!
Thabnks for the cache!

My geo-radar was off with this one but Mrs Nilbog had no trouble and walked straight to it.

TFTF

Rated: for Overall Experience

A final morning in Sydney and time to Geocache! It was around 10 am and no other activity in the area. TFTC

Ama didn't make the walk for this one. She was feeling the heat. I was uninterrupted puttsing around the island and should have been onto this one but regretfully had to leave without findind it. I should have timed a visit with the chef, maybe got an extra hint. Felt a little inadequate here. These big city micros arn't my style.

Great find before going for lunch. Was really lucky to find it soo quickly.

Nice find. Found with Daaave.
Thanks

Our first found at Australia. Easy found, but no cheafs at 22.30pm. Nice cachebox. Thanks
Yarcs (Braunschweig, Germany)

I did not meet any chef, but it was probably too early: 8:50 am.

TFTC - fogg

Repeated attempts at this cache failed and failed. Tried 3 different times over a 24-hour period. Obviously I'm missing something somewhere...and now that I see the overhead photo that has been provided (and I didn't have on my palm pilot), I think I see where my GPS pointed me wrong.
Maybe next time!
Thanks!

Found 13:30. First Sydney/NSW cache experience. No one on break today, must be working hard? Fortuneately found reasonably quickly, just before a couple of limo drivers commenced their break. TFTC.

#5 @ 07:40
After weeks (like about 7 weeks) of negotiation I finally wore my current boss down and yesterday at about 15:00 we agreed that I was leaving today! How to celebrate? A quick round of caching before work would be a good way to kick of my last day of work for 2006 so I planned it out. The promised “morning showers†did not eventuate so the conditions weren’t perfect for CBD urbans, but my choice of time seemed good. I got up at 03:55 and awoke at Central station at 6:20 and commenced my sortie ….

My first maty061 cache. Thanks.

PS On your next break check the placement please. I could see the container from 20 meters away. I placed it in the same place but in a different configuration. Apologies if I have placed in incorrectly. GB

The chef is gone. Three other chefs had their break and were invited to pose for a photo.
Thanks to them and to maty061, regards from Serendipitwo.

Found with the Bushies. I have a photo of a chef on a break, will upload soon.Its good to finally get some of these Sydney caches done, especially considering i work 5 minutes away

Thanks
www.teambooya.com

Found this cache at 3:50 pm. Whilst visiting Sydney with Sc00t and Twi$ties. Spending time around Darling Harbour cache hunting before we go and see the Musical "Priscilla". This being our 6th for the day. It was reasonable easy compared to the others we had already done today. GPS took us right to it. ScOOt took photo of a Bushie with a Cheff in the background. Plenty of taxi muggles and HC vehicles around, not taking any notice of us. Had a great seafood lunch at "Jordens" A must do.
Thanks maty061 for the cache.
The Bushies. (Team Booya)

Straight forward find for the B-Team. No chefs in sight, but plenty of nosey cabbies. Conducted initial site survey from my hotel room, which overlooked GZ. Good Luck.

Took a little wandering around before I found this one

thanks

keener

Loved this cache. Wanted to meet the chef but we were here at the wrong time. We're here from USA waiting to get on a cruise ship. Had to catch some caches as this was our first trip to Australia. Thanks for the fun.

Got this one after visiting the motor show. My sister actually nabbed it after I gave her the likely location, for once at least there were no muggles sitting close to it and few taxi drivers, plenty of other muggles around though but we were pretty stealthy. Plesae replace log as it is nearly full.

Rated: for Overall Experience

We found this cache at 1450hrs immediatly in the second attempt. First time we have been there, there were simply too many taxi-drivers watching us...

TNLN

thx for this cache

team_BAFL

We didn't intend to to go looking for this, but we had some time, we were in the area and we had a GPSr, so why not? Good one matey061!! We had fun. Thank you!

Number four today.

Thanks Kathrin

found it very esay. to put it back was harder because of the tsxi drivers.
thanks

Hey hey!
Nice quiet spot which gave us a nice quick find!
TNLNSL TFTC

thanks for this cash with the view on all the chefs expensive cars!

faehrtensucher from austria

Found this one at lunchtime - while all the chefs were working hard!

3:05 pm. Visiting from the San Francisco Bay Area. I guess I picked a good time to look for this one - virtually no one nearby at this hour, making this hide a quick grab and go. Thanks! # 2046

After dark, 0 chefs + 3 cabdrivers. They were busy with conversation, so a quick log was no problem.

Peter (Neo)

No chefs here today but lots of taxis but noone where I wanted to be so find was made and logged without hassle. TFTC

No chefs today. Just taxis and muggles relaxing where I wanted to be. Patience paid off and they left. TFTC

Nice easy cache (only one taxi driver) reading the paper in his cab so went straight to it managed to set in the right place

Dear Maty061,

We found your cache today at 6:30pm as the twelfth of thirteen on the third day of our Sydney Trip. After a full day in the field, we still only had eleven finds and eight DNF's under the belt so we had to at least get the dozen. Thanks for an easy pick up. Thanks for the cache.

Kind Regards,

D & H B-A

2 of 3 for today. I actually came past here a few weeks ago but someone was sitting on the cache. The coast was clear today apart from a dozen taxi-vultures but they were too busy checking out some passing mugglitas. Thanks maty061.

First visited this one a few days ago at lunchtime. Talk about mugglopolis. Six taxi drivers, six hire car drivers and three coach drivers. Went back this morning before work. Found it, signed the log and put it back.

I think this one could be called "taxi driver's Break" since the place was swarming with them on this Saturday afternoon. I had just retrieved the cache and had opened it to write in the log, when a cabbie came over and sat down next to me! So it took a little while for people to show up and take cabs so that the drivers could do their little taxi shuffle. Eventually I got it back in place. Nice hide. Sorry I missed the chef(s).

A fairly quiet morning when I arrived, althought there were heaps of taxi drivers, talking amongst themselves and paying no attention to a lone cacher. Spotted the cache, spread my gear all 'round and nabbed the cache. After logging the cache I slipped it back as I packed up.

11:40am in the midst of muggles getting into and out of taxis we were able to sneak this from it's hiding spot and write a brief note.

There's a photo of the GPSr in Kim Jong Il's phone with 3 chefs having a smoke in the background, we'll be uploading that one as soon as she's back from her current trip.

TFTC.

Lot's of muggles but a great shot of the chefs to be uploaded soon.

TFTC

Kim Jong Il (Mrs Derka Derka)

Found this after waiting for several cab drivers to leave (at 6:30am there sure were a lot of them trying to take me somewhere).

No chefs but lots of taxis. Nice area. I had to wait for them all to move up to grab and replace. TFTC.

This was very interesting. We had a hard time at first, but then we found it. We did see a few Chefs on their break.

Found at 2:15pm after collecting the photo with gps in hand and chef in background. Searched for some time before replacement batteries in the GPSr and resorting to the hint led us to the find.
TNLN
thanks maty061

3 tired chefs, 3 bored taxis drivers, 1 happy cache hunter. TFTC

Second evening of searching, saw chefs but couldn't wait for them to finish break so had to chicken out. I think co-ords are a bit out, or was that the idea?

Rated: for Overall Experience

If only those pesky taxis weren't watching this one would have been simpler!

Cheers,
W-L
1ARC

Very easy cache to see, not so easy to get it away unnoticed.
Had to go and get another cache while the muggles were all about, even though I had already seen the cache. Frustrating.
TFTC

Found at around 4.30pm after a coffee at Harbourside.
I actually run into the owner of this cache when checking out GCX5RE an hour later.

Easy find at approx. 2pm. No chefs about, luckily had the place to my self. the odd cab pulled up to pick up a few passengers. Had to wait for a few muggles to move on.
SL TFTC

Found this cache on the last day of my visit here in Sydney from the USA. After striking out on the "Oh" No Darling cache, it was nice to have a simple, straightforward cache that actually had hints to help you find it. TNLN.

Gave the place a more thorough search, and found it in (what I'm discovering is) the obvious place after all. Saw no chefs. Thanks!

Found this one without the GPS and with a full taxi rank behind. But no chefs.

My shoes have no laces but I did them up three times.

Signed the log.

Thanks for the hunt.

Cheers

mandaj

Have to confess I didn't find it. In the trees somewhere perhaps? Attached to one of the seats? Buried under the earth? Taxi drivers kept eyeing me suspiciously. Will go back during one of the chef breaks to confirm I'm at least in the right ballpark.

Quick easy find, just how i like it.

thanks Maty

Nice easy find. had to buy a pen so we could log it.

Hi, nice easy cache. spent some time to take a break ourselves after walking all morning. TFTC

The beginning of quite an adventure. Found the cache very easily however, trying to return it impossible. Hundreds of muggles appeared from everywhere to take taxi rides around Muggleland. Finally decided to venture on to Anzac with cache in pocket and return later. Finally returned two and a half hours later and put cache back safely. Thanks for the adventure.

Kiwi on holiday. Having fun.

Although the GPSr said to go one way the obvious choice was to go another...and there it was at about 0804. These are our coordinates but they shouldn't be needed. Thanks for placing it and getting us back here.

- NCad

Found this one while we were in the city for the Jazz Festival. Stupidly, we walked all around the place, while we were already really close to it in the first place. Found the cache right away, I could see it while walking to it. Thanks for bringing us to this place (even though there was no chef in sight ).

I Picked up [url=http://www.travelertags.com/index.php?option=com_travelview&func=details&tid=109080]Kitten Kong (Traveler Tag #T1AA18)[/url] from here.

[This entry was edited by The Antipodes on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 7:20:30 PM.]

Easy one. Nailed it with BSF while waiting for our lunch to be prepared nearby. Left the micro mini geocoin. SL