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== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
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[[User:Kozz|Kozz]]
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== Plans ==
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Initially - head out on the bike first thing in the morning.
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Actuality - by car and foot.
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== Expedition ==
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[[user:Kozz|Kozz]]: This wasn't too far away from home, and initially I'd hoped to  do an early morning cycle geohash but a combo of overnight rain and a migraine kept me in bed till the late morning. I decided to include the geohash with a trip to the chemist to find painkillers, theorising it wouldn't take too long.
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Slotted the coords into the satnav and followed its instructions; in the middle of an area marked asa reserve on Google Maps. It looked as if it wanted me to drive the wrong direction up a motorway offramp to get there, so I used dead reckoning to find another entrance to what appeared to be a massive open green parkland. The decision to not follow the satnav would prove to be costly.
  
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I found a road leading to a marked path leading to the corner of the open green area, and took a quick walk along the path - it's part of the Dandenong Creek Trail, one of a myriad of creek trails in Melbourne. To the right was a fenced off area - which transpired to be a quarry - and to the left there were fields, and from somewhere nearby I could hear heavy machinery at work. As I continued on I pondered why the parkland was fenced off by a 9 foot chainlink  fence, but pressed on as the path swung south then east again vaguely towards the hashpoint.
  
== Plans ==
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About 1km in and still 350m from the hashpoint, I walked past a carpark next to a massive barn-like building. Stacked outside were about 30 mattresses, and...I realised I could smell the unmistakeable stench of decaying garbage. Lots of it.
  
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The reason I could hear heavy machinery was because it was operating in a 'transfer station' - otherwise known as a town refuse dump, tip, or trash pile.
  
== Expedition ==
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Yes that's right - the hash for today in Melbourne East is in the middle of a MASSIVE HEAP OF TRASH.
  
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I toyed with the idea of doing the world's most comprehensive geotrash collection - I mean, c'mon, BONANZA - but gave up the idea pretty much immediately. Aside from the physical danger - who wants to be walking over piles of refuse - there is the discomfort, the trespassing and the awful smell. Ewwww.
  
== Tracklog ==
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I went back to the car somewhat disheartened, and drove around to the suggest satnav point which of course took me past the massive sign that said 'KNOX CITY TRANSFER STATION'. I stopped at a nearby gate - the closest I could get to the hash - and took a photo of the hashpoint, then with a heavy heart and a migraine returning, left once again. Failed to reach coordinates; no public access.
  
  
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Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Blue-skies.jpg | Blue skies
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Blue-skies.jpg | Blue skies
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Heron.jpg | Heron keeping an eye out
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Heron.jpg | Heron keeping an eye out
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Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Chainlick-blockage.jpg | Blocked by chainlink, the geohasher's nemesis
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry.jpg | It's a quarry
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry.jpg | It's a quarry
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry-Warning.jpg | Quarry warning
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry-Warning.jpg | Quarry warning
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Hash-point.jpg | The hash point way in the distance
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Hash-point.jpg | The hash point way in the distance
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Chainlick-blockage.jpg | Blocked by chainlink, the geohasher's nemesis
 
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Distance-at-footpath.jpg | Close as I got on foot
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Distance-at-footpath.jpg | Close as I got on foot
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Closest-point.jpg | This is as close as I got :o(
 
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Closest-point.jpg | This is as close as I got :o(

Revision as of 06:16, 19 January 2010

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Location

In the middle of what appeared to be a reserve close to the Eastlink Freeway in Glen Waverley / Wantirna South.

Participants

Kozz

Plans

Initially - head out on the bike first thing in the morning. Actuality - by car and foot.

Expedition

Kozz: This wasn't too far away from home, and initially I'd hoped to do an early morning cycle geohash but a combo of overnight rain and a migraine kept me in bed till the late morning. I decided to include the geohash with a trip to the chemist to find painkillers, theorising it wouldn't take too long.

Slotted the coords into the satnav and followed its instructions; in the middle of an area marked asa reserve on Google Maps. It looked as if it wanted me to drive the wrong direction up a motorway offramp to get there, so I used dead reckoning to find another entrance to what appeared to be a massive open green parkland. The decision to not follow the satnav would prove to be costly.

I found a road leading to a marked path leading to the corner of the open green area, and took a quick walk along the path - it's part of the Dandenong Creek Trail, one of a myriad of creek trails in Melbourne. To the right was a fenced off area - which transpired to be a quarry - and to the left there were fields, and from somewhere nearby I could hear heavy machinery at work. As I continued on I pondered why the parkland was fenced off by a 9 foot chainlink fence, but pressed on as the path swung south then east again vaguely towards the hashpoint.

About 1km in and still 350m from the hashpoint, I walked past a carpark next to a massive barn-like building. Stacked outside were about 30 mattresses, and...I realised I could smell the unmistakeable stench of decaying garbage. Lots of it.

The reason I could hear heavy machinery was because it was operating in a 'transfer station' - otherwise known as a town refuse dump, tip, or trash pile.

Yes that's right - the hash for today in Melbourne East is in the middle of a MASSIVE HEAP OF TRASH.

I toyed with the idea of doing the world's most comprehensive geotrash collection - I mean, c'mon, BONANZA - but gave up the idea pretty much immediately. Aside from the physical danger - who wants to be walking over piles of refuse - there is the discomfort, the trespassing and the awful smell. Ewwww.

I went back to the car somewhat disheartened, and drove around to the suggest satnav point which of course took me past the massive sign that said 'KNOX CITY TRANSFER STATION'. I stopped at a nearby gate - the closest I could get to the hash - and took a photo of the hashpoint, then with a heavy heart and a migraine returning, left once again. Failed to reach coordinates; no public access.


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