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:
Beenleigh is a town on the Gold Coast railway line, 33 km south-east of central Brisbane. It is best known for the Beenleigh Rum Distillery founded on the local sugar industry in the mid-1880s.
European settlement in the Beenleigh district began with German Lutheran farmers at Bethania in 1864, on the Logan River, about 6 km north-west of Beenleigh. Within a few years there were also German-speaking farmers in the areas now known as Beenleigh and Waterford. A government survey mapped out a town in 1866 on the present site of Beenleigh. In the same year a Lutheran mission station for Aborigines, Bethesda, opened nearby.
New suburbs were formed around Beenleigh in the 1970s, Eagleby to the east and Mount Warren Park-Windaroo to the south. Beenleigh's function as a district centre intensified, and its shopping area outgrew the old five-ways town centre; Beenleigh marketplace (discount department store, supermarket, 61 shops) opened in 1999. In 1998 the southern railway returned with the opening of the Gold Coast line from Beenleigh to Robina. A 35 km bikeway connecting Beenleigh with the Gold Coast was opened in 2004.
Beenleigh's northern boundary is the Logan River, where the Gold Coast Council meets Logan City. While Beenleigh's rural heritage was out of step with Logan's urban thrust, it was historically part of the Logan landscape. In 2008 Beenleigh was transferred from Gold Coast City to Logan City, unifying the area north of the Albert River, which was 'essentially residential'. The Beenleigh historical village, with 20 or more buildings transferred there from around the district, retains something of pre-urban days.
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 Beenleigh
Follow the directions given and the cache coordinates will be revealed.
