Kaffee Kache - where we have shared a chat over coffee with fellow geocachers.
Preliminaries:
- No cache is hidden at the posted coordinates, but you must 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.
- Park responsibly!
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 Kaffee Kache is an interactive mystery geocache. It requires a smartphone. It is a unique way of stringing together virtual and physical waypoints. Thus, it is part virtual cache, part multicache, part puzzle cache, and part adventure lab. What more could one want?
A Kaffee Kache does not require any specific hardware or software - just internet access and a browser. There is no need to download any Cartridge or App.
A Kaffee Kache also has a Teamwork attribute. Because an Intercache works live across web-based activities, having a friend or two could save you the intricacies of internet drop-out or phone freeze should such happen in low-signal areas.
This Kaffe Kache also has another web-based component: What3Words. You can work What3Words directly from the website www.what3words.com OR....
There is also an App for both Android and iPhone. If you would like to use the What3Words App, then use THIS LINK.
Documentation on using the Intercache platform is downloadable HERE.
Documentation on using the What3words App is downloadable HERE.
Starting.
Start with this Intercache Link. Kaffee Kache Tingalpa
Follow the directions given and the cache coordinates will be revealed.
