2015-06-09 -35 149
| Tue 9 Jun 2015 in -35,149: -35.4018270, 149.1962147 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Behind some houses at Jerrabombera, a bush suburb near Canberra.
Participants
Plans
1PE
Go at lunchtime, park on the road, and walk in.
Expedition
1PE
I did "Go at lunchtime, park on the road, and walk in." I discovered that there was good access to a wide-open wooded slope behind the houses by passing beside them. My GPS worked well enough that I navigated to near the hash then went down-slope to the south till I was within the GPS' 5m area of doubt. There, I discovered an abandoned wombat] hole. So, this is the "departed wombat hash". I could tell it was abandoned by the old pile of dirt (no fresh marks). Wombats are nocturnal, and so would be in a burrow in the middle of the day.
I took some pictures, including of: a tiny group of very small, black fungi growing on the log beside the wombat burrow; an aircraft flying almost right over on its approach to Canberra airport's main north-facing runway; old wombat droppings; very fresh wombat droppings, the houses nearby.
Tracklog
Photos
Looking into the opening of the wombat burrow. Dirt pile in foreground.
Fungi
Me and the wombat hole.
Wombat droppings (old-ish)
Plane
Wombat droppings (fresh)
Human dwellings
A 'bong' (drug-smoking kit) that I noticed on the walkway back to the car.
