Kaffee Kache - a cache to celebrate when 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:
In 1885, several Swedish immigrants from the ship Chyebassa established farms in the area. Early crops included oats, maize, potatoes and turnips. Horses and cattle were grazed and timber was cut. Other early settlers were John and George Hubner who took up farms in 1893. Although the district acquired the unofficial name of Hubner from the Hubner family, when the (then) local government Shire of Beaudesert tried to formalise it in 1987, it was instead decided to name the area Crestmead after a local housing estate.
The area was criss-crossed with timber-getters' tracks. There was only one house, located between Green Road and Hubner Road.
Mâns Stjernqvist took up land, which is now the Crestmead industrial estate, in December 1885. His eldest son Nils apparently worked as a wheelwright for the mail coaches that frequented the area at the time.
A typical house was a slab house with a shingle roof.
John Hubner established a flourishing estate on his property, which had a six-roomed sawn timber cottage with a veranda, detached kitchen, underground cellar and fireplace. His property included a toilet, fowl house and three acres of garden. He had 400 fruit trees including apples, plums, peach and oranges. He also had pineapples and bananas planted, and a cow yard and calf pen.
The area remained in use for grazing and timber getting for many years to come. Urban subdivisions began in the late 1970s. In 1981, an industrial estate opened on the property originally owned by Mans Stjernqvist. One of the housing estates was known as Crestmead.
Despite Beaudesert Shire allocating the unofficial placename of Hubner, Crestmead was eventually gazetted in 1987. The Crestmead State School was called Hubner during construction. It was officially named Crestmead when it opened in 1984.
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.Â
Starting.
Start with this Intercache Link. Kaffee Kache Crestmead
Follow the directions given and the cache coordinates will be revealed.
