2011-01-01 47 -1

Sat 1 Jan 2011 in 47,-1: 47.2318223, -1.8856161 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a field near the Canal de la Martinière. There is a risk that the field will be muddy to put it mildly.

Participants

• ClementB

Plans

I'm planning to leave Saint-Herblain, and go to the point by the bac de Loire in Coueron, and to follow the Canal de la Martinière to the point, then come back by the road from Paimboeuf to Nantes and the Pont de Cheviré.

Expedition

I left Saint-Herblain on time, took the bac in Coueron, and made my way along the canal, only to find a bridge too weak to support my car. I left my car and made the last kilometer on foot. It was cold and windy...

As I suspected the field was full of water. The whole area is a swamp in winter: it's the flood plain of the Loire river.

Anyway, it was a nice trip.

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Achievements

ClementB earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (47, -1) geohash on 2011-01-01 by an impassable and unforeseen swamp (and probably lurking alligators).