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:
Milton is a small suburb 2 kilometres west of the central business district. It is a mixture of light industry, warehouses, commercial offices, retail and single and multiple occupancy residences. The main roads are Milton Road, which runs beside the main western rail line and Coronation Drive (formerly River Road), which runs along the Brisbane River.
The suburb's name was derived from the farm name "Milton Farm", used from the late 1840s by Ambrose Eldridge, chemist. Eldridge named the farm after John Milton, the English poet.
The Morrow biscuit factory opened in December 1913 on the northeast corner of Coronation Drive and Boomerang Street. In 1949 the Morrow company merged with the Arnott's Biscuits company and the factory became known as the Arnott's factory from 1956. It was well known because of the pleasant smell of baking biscuits that surrounded it and was a landmark structure. The factory was vacated in the 1990s when Arnotts moved their Brisbane operations to Virginia. The Milton Morrow/Arnott's site was demolished and redeveloped as apartments in 2004.
Milton Courts opened in 1915. They were Brisbane's major tennis courts, where major international and national tournaments were held until the courts closed in the 1990s.
Milton has several heritage-listed sites, including:
Milton State School in Bayswater Street - built from 1923 to 1936
Cook Terrace - 249 Coronation Drive - a two-storeyed brick row of six houses built in 1888–1889 by Brisbane builder Joseph Blain Cook.
Christ Church at 3 Chippendall Street, nestled in a corner of Suncorp Stadium. The timbers from the Esk Valley used in the construction of the church are of a size and quality that have become rare today. The positioning of the church, rectory and hall close to the graveyard is an uncommon characteristic in Queensland churches. The reserve and the graves and memorials it contains are the only visible evidence of Queensland's first major public cemetery.
Milton House at 50 McDougall Street - erected in 1852 or 1853 for retired Queen Street chemist Ambrose Eldridge. It was the first substantial house in the area and soon a local landmark, being prominent in early views of Brisbane.
Old Bishopsbourne Chapel (Chapel of the Holy Spirit) at 233 Milton Road - constructed of Brisbane tuff. The walls are eighteen inches (460 mm) thick with exposed timber trusses and a steeply pitched, slate-clad roof.
Notable landmarks in Milton include the Castlemaine Perkins brewery known for the "Fourex" (XXXX) range of beers (they offer tours and tastings in its Alehouse), and Lang Park (also known Suncorp Stadium), a portion of the Brisbane riverwalk and the Park Road strip of restaurants and cafés, where this cache is.
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.
Starting.
Start with this Intercache Link. Kaffee Kache Milton
Follow the directions given and the cache coordinates will be revealed.
