Kaffee Kache - a cache to celebrate 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:
Yeronga
The first inhabitants of the Yeronga area were the Jagera people, whose traditional country is the south side of the Brisbane River.
Present-day Yeronga is a residential suburb with a long shoreline on the Brisbane River, five km south of central Brisbane. It is thought that the name was derived from an Aboriginal word, 'yerongpa', describing a sandy place.
Farming began at Yeronga in the late 1840s, as there was a considerable stretch of undulating land adjoining the river, especially the area back from the Brisbane Corso and north-east to Fairfield. Maize, arrowroot and potatoes were important crops. Riverside estates were established after land sales in 1854. A primary school was opened in 1867, followed by an infants school (1871-1978). On Ipswich Road, Yeronga Park was proclaimed as a recreation reserve in 1882.
The railway line to Ipswich (1884) and a post office (1886) signified significant change. In 1889 the resplendent Rhyndarra was built for William Williams, bur financial failure resulted in Williams' property being acquired for a Salvation Army girls' home in 1897, and later (1942) it was an Army hospital. Rhyndarra is on the Australian heritage register.
Farming continued, but urban development proceeded during the 1900s-10s: a tennis club was opened in Yeronga Park in 1909, and a bowling club was formed in 1912. In 1915 the Ipswich Road tram was extended to Yeronga Park. The park became a local showpiece, with an avenue of honour (1917), war memorial gates and a mausoleum (1921). The northern part of the park was a showground, taken in 1960 as the site for the Yeronga high school. In 1942 the park was temporarily taken for a US military camp, coinciding with Rhyndarra's conversion to a Women's Army hospital.
A shopping centre grew in Fairfield Road in the vicinity of Devon and Cowper Streets, including the Ideal Picture Theatre.
The flood-prone north of Yeronga, from Newcastle Street to the river baths and jetty at Orsova Road, was vacant space with a resting paddock for livestock and shallow watercourses passing through today's Goodwin and Leythan Parks. Development of this area was sparse, with a large parcel of land remaining in 1952 for Taubman's paint factory in Hyde Road. The elevated parts of Yeronga, however, were sought after and have substantial interwar and early post war housing. The Wanganui reception centre, overlooking the river at Orlando Road, was a popular rendezvous, having opened in 1949.
St Sebastian's Catholic primary school in Kadumba Street opened in 1937, and State secondary education arrived in the 1960s with the high school (1960) and technical school (1967), later a TAFE. A swimming pool was also opened in Yeronga Park in the 1960s.
All of Yeronga Park is listed on the Queensland heritage register. In addition to Rhyndarra, there are three houses in Kadumba Street that are heritage-listed, Astolat (c1890), Como (1889) and the Mills house (c1914) at number 107.
By the early 2000s Yeronga was recognised as a riverside real estate 'hot spot', not entirely surprising with half of its borders facing water, and a new drive-in shopping centre, Yeronga Village, was opened in 2002, immediately north of Devon Street at Fairfield Road.
Most of riverside Yeronga was flooded in January 2011, and the Brisbane River also invaded Yeronga through the parks adjacent to the Corso. Peripheral houses were flooded. A serious inundation entered from Long Pocket Reach, reaching Orari Road. Its extent was as bad as in 1893.
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 Yeronga
Follow the directions given and the cache coordinates will be revealed.
