2009-08-30 -36 146

Sun 30 Aug 2009 in -36,146: -36.0775160, 146.3233754 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

What an adventure! Fi and Kieran headed out, Fi dropped out, Acajou joined in, we held a newborn lamb, spent a couple of hours hiking, and got within thirty metres of the hash point.

Update: I think we were retro hashing, or something, because the coords displayed to the side and the place we went to are radically different. Groan, it was so long ago, I can't remember which days coords we were trying to reach... --Kieran 06:26, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Participants

• Fi
• Kieran
• Acajou

Expedition

Don't you be touching my lambs!!!

The first attempt. Fi and Kieran headed out to find the hash point. The map placed it just off a road in a pine plantation.

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  Turning off the sealed road, onto mud tracks, on a wet day, in a two wheel drive with bugger all clearance, what could go wrong?

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  The street sign points us to the Morgan Creek pine plantation.

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  This plantation was logged after parts were damaged in the 2009 bushfires.

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  We ascended quite a height in pursuit of the hash point

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  There had been some tree fall in the recent storms

Eventually we realised we'd taken a wrong turn. Unfortunately there was no where to turn around safely, so we kept driving. After a 35km round trip we ended up were we started.

Fi didn't want to go again, so realising that Acajou's farm was nearby we went for coffee and a chat. Acajou introduced us to some newborn lambs:

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  Last night the sheep gave birth

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  So Acajou thrust one in Fi's arms

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  And one in Kierans.

As it happened Acajou was up for a fresh attempt at the Hash point, so back up the hill Acajou and Kieran went. Going in the right direction this time, we were eventually forced to walk.

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  The tree that stopped us

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  So we walked to Birti road

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  And gave up at this point, over that road side are brambles, and thirty metres or so into those brambles was the hash point

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  And here is Acajou :-)