Preliminaries:
There is no cache hidden at the posted coordinates, but you will need to start there.
There is no need to enter any commercial premises for any part of this cache!
Please use the roadside footpaths where possible, and take care in crossing any roads.
Makku Mob Caches are popping up all over the place. We place them where we have met up with fellow geocaching friends, and encourage others to do likewise: meet up with a few friends and have some fun caching.
So, a Mob Cache is a Social Cache. In order to find the location of this cache, you will need to bring along some of your friends! The more friends you have, the easier it is to find the cache.
For this cache, you need a minimum of THREE cachers to meet at the posted coordinates with their smartphones.
Location:
The name Tingalpa comes from the native words 'Tinggal' meaning fat and 'Pa' meaning the place of: the place of fat (plenty). For the Aboriginal peoples of the area it was a cornucopia with much food around the many freshwater billabongs and the creek.
The suburb has some older style homes built in the post war period – weatherboard and chamferboard post war cottages in particular. Most of the new estates are made up of typically low set and high set brick and tile homes. Previously the land that is now being developed into residential zones was devoted to small farmlets and semi-industrial developments.
Tingalpa has a number of heritage-listed sites including:
Hemmant Cemetery, 500 Hemmant-Tingalpa Road, gazetted as a cemetery reserve in March 1874. It served as a general burial ground for local residents from 1875, laid out in the style of the Victorian period ‘mortuary park’, a particular type of cemetery developed in the early nineteenth century. The reserve was administered by trustees until 1930, when the Brisbane City Council obtained control of all cemeteries within its jurisdiction.
Tingalpa War Memorial, Manly Road, constructed in 1919, the year after the end of World War One. A standard statue and plinth memorial design, it was built by prominent stonemasons Andrew L. Petrie & Sons. Placed at the busy intersection of Manly and Wynnum Roads, the original memorial featured urns at each corner of the plinth that held a ‘digger’ statue and an iron fence enclosure. The first memorial was partly demolished in two traffic accidents in 1937. It was rebuilt but without the urns plus a replacement ‘digger’ statue. Subsequently the memorial’s location has developed into a traffic island/park containing flowerbeds, ornamental leopard trees and five pine trees.
Richmond Bridge, Wynnum Road, constructed between 1955 and 1957 as a replacement for an older timber bridge, nicknamed the ‘Death Trap Bridge’. After many years of community anxiety about the safety of the bridge the Brisbane City Council began construction of a new reinforced concrete bridge. Richmond Bridge is a fine example of a post-war civic infrastructure project undertaken by the Brisbane City Council to improve the road corridor from Cannon Hill through to the Moreton Bay area on Wynnum Road.
Christ Church and cemetery, 1341 Wynnum Road. With headstones dating from 1868 to 1993, the burial ground contains monuments and headstones illustrative of a variety of periods and styles. It survives in reasonable order, and is a good example of a small church burial ground established in what was initially a rural district. The church remains a good example of its type - the simple, rectangular, pragmatic, ubiquitous Queensland weatherboard church - but appears to have retained some of the decorative elements of the first architect-designed building, including the timber trefoils to the windows, a trefoil arch in the portico, and the substantial pointed arched timber entrance doors.
Tingalpa State School is the only school in the area.
Tingalpa features a large amount of parks and bushland, including Carmichael Park in the north of the suburb, Kianawah Park in the south and Meadowlands Picnic Ground Park in the south-west, part of the Minnippi Parklands
Technical details:
This style of cache is called a geomob. It is popular at events, where a mob of 6, 10 or even more cachers might be required before a cache is unlocked. As this isn’t part of any event, I’ve reduced the size of the mob to just 3 people to give you a taste of the geomob experience. Each cacher present will need an internet-supported smart phone.
[The original mob server was discontinued at the start of 2024; however, the experience has been recreated by talk2azs (with assistance from Mister Doctor) to run on a new server.]
Once at the listed coordinates, each of you should tap on the following link on your separate devices.
CLICK THIS LINK NOW and a new window will open. Continue to refresh this window until you are close enough and connected to the mob. You will see the message and new coordinates.
👓 If you get a Geolocation Permission error, ensure your browser‘s settings allow geolocation.
👓 Refreshing the window should also clear any GPS reading errors.
👓 Be patient - the mob refresh rate is a bit slow, so even though you might be within the mob radius you may have to wait there for a little bit until your presence is detected!
✅ It would be a great idea if someone in your group IMMEDIATELY takes a screen snapshot to minimize the risk of losing the screen. OR, you could just write down the directions or coordinates for the final.
The Cache:
Then you could take a pleasant WALK from the starting coordinates to the cache - it is a short distance away. Or you could elect to drive, but please park sensibly. The HINT may contain further information.
Good Luck!