2014-05-19 -43 173

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Mon 19 May 2014 in -43,173:
-43.7691033, 173.0209358
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Location

Le Bons Bay, Canterbury, New Zealand

Participants

The Quaternary (talk) family geohashers

Plans

The Le Bons Bay graticule is a largely sea based region, with about 3% of the area being actual land. Other than a small parcel of land at the top left corner, most of this land is towards the bottom left, being the Eastern tip of Banks Peninsula.

So when a geohash came up in the valley of Le Bons Bay itself (which lends its name to this very graticule), I thought that this had to be a priority for the day!

First of all, getting permission to get access to the land, so the night before I managed to track down the owner - many thanks to John for giving me permission to access the geohash location! (John, if you are ever in Christchurch, please look me up and I'll buy you a coffee!)

Expedition

The day was sunny and mild - a lovely autumn day to be out and about geohashing.

To access the geohash, one option is to take the extremely scenic Summit Road, which strangely enough, winds around the lip of the volcanic cone. This volcano erupted about 12 million years ago, and has weathered to the lovely peninsula we have today. The volcanic plug, also known as the Onawe Peninsula, is prominent in most of the harbour views. (It was the site of a Ngai Tahu pa captured by Te Rauparaha, chief of the Ngati Toa in 1831. Up to 1,200 people were killed here.)

Le Bons Bay Road comes off Summit Road, and the geohash was about 10 metres off the road a little from the turn-off.

When we parked the car, we got a glorious blast in the ear from the resident Bellbird.

The geohash is just on the interface between a paddock and a native forest remnant. So I tucked the geohash marker just under a young Totara tree. May you still be looking down on the ocean in the centuries to come.


Tracklog

Photos

Achievements

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Quaternary earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (-43, 173) graticule, here, on 2014-05-19.
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Quaternary earned the Ambassador achievement
by obtaining permission from John to access the (-43, 173) geohash on 2014-05-19.
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Quaternary achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Christchurch,_New_Zealand and 2 of the surrounding graticules.