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Expedition

The Plan

On the closed Baymeadows Golf Club, off Baymeadows Circle.

The Geohashers

Geoff

The Adventure

Six months without a doable geohash, then one pops up within a half mile of our house. Erica was sick, so I trekked out myself. I vaguely considered the Tron or Juggernaut achievements, as they were certainly possible, but it involved crossing several backyards of people I've never seen before; I'd rather not press my luck.

I'd like to quote a geohash from three years ago, when I briefly considered walking to a geohash three miles away: "Thankfully, sane minds prevailed on this one, noting that Palm Harbor is a terrible place to be out walking in the Florida heat at 1 PM with little shade and no breeze." Turns out that applies to Jacksonville, as I decided to walk to the hash, with a bit more shade but still no breeze.

Getting there wasn't the worst of it. It was once I got within range that the shade ran out and I was in the Florida heat at high noon. In addition, the app that I was using does not like being offroads. Despite doing the hash dance, it wanted to place me much further away. Even more puzzling, it was right on me while I was walking on the road. I'm not sure if it's the app or my phone that doesn't like offroad, but I should start bringing the driving GPS instead.

It wasn't much to see one way or another. The golf club has been closed for the last 10 years; the land was bought for development, but said development was vetoed due to infrastructure concerns, mainly putting more traffic on an already overflowing road. Because of this, it's been overgrown and barely maintained, so if you'd like to see what that looks like, uh, score? I left the Ace of Clubs on a nearby rock that likely doubles as a bench and sweated my way back home.