2020-09-25 -36 145

Location

In a field of beans north of Benalla, Victoria.

Participants

Felix Dance

Expedition

Not much to this geohash! I saw it in the morning at my motel in Benalla, then went to work at the Precast Factory for the West Gate Tunnel Project. It rained most of the day and I wasn't sure if it'd be worth going for, but it was just off a road directly north of my workplace.

In the end I got off work early enough, jumped in my Hilux ute and headed north through a part of Victoria I was unfamiliar with. It was very green and the clouds looked really solid. I got to the hash-site after about 25 minutes.

I got out and luckily didn't even need to jump a fence since that corner of the field was open. There were a few trees, some bogs, and a large hay shed nearby. I walked towards the hash and saw it was about 20m inside a wall of crops. I couldn't work out what they were but they had little yellow flowers and seemed to be a kind of bean. tAlex has since informed me that they are canola plants.

It was very slow going pushing my way through the beans. I got very wet since it had been raining recently. The beans got up to about shoulder-height. A few inefficient right turns and I was there. I took the obligatory photos (maybe too many) and headed back. It was much easier taking the path I'd already created, like Moses. I don't think the crops were particularly damaged by my incursion, although I would say that.

Soon I got back to my car and drove back to Benalla, then onto the Hume Freeway and back to Melbourne before curfew, stopping only for a veggie burger at the MacDonalds Drive Thru in Eurora.

I had avenged the failed geohash from last weekend: 2020-09-20 -36 146.

Here is the route I took.