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:
Stafford is predominantly a residential suburb, originally known as Happy Valley. The district was noted for agistment, dairying, noxious trades and extractive industries with Chinese market gardens beginning in 1857. Access between Brisbane and Happy Valley improved in 1870 when the Blackall Bridge was built on Webster Road to cross Kedron Brook. Proximity to the brook led to tanneries, a wool scour, dairies and a fellmongery (for processing sheep skins, whereby flesh particles were removed by maggots). A quarry and brickworks were also operative by the 1880s, and it is supposed that the association of Stafford, UK with clay products may have inspired the change of name of the district. In any event, in 1886 when the post office and a school in Collier Street were opened, they were named Stafford, and Happy Valley Road was named Stafford Road.
Stafford has a number of heritage-listed sites, including the Stafford State School, a substantial three-storey brick building typical of many Queesnland schools built Post War under the Unemployment Relief Scheme.
The only other school in Stafford is the Queen of Apostles Catholic Primary School.
There are a number of parks in the suburb, which house geocaches, such as parts of the "Drum Beat" series (eg, GC93TYZ) and this cache.
Sparkes Hill is in the south-west of the suburb and is 96 metres above sea level. The water reservoir on the top of the hill holds 94 megalitres, which 16% of Brisbane's water supply. It is also the home of several caches.
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 Stafford
Follow the directions given and the cache coordinates will be revealed.
