Difference between revisions of "2015-08-16 -12 130"

Revision as of 03:46, 17 August 2015

Location

Just off a main road in Palmerston.

Participants

Felix
Lucy

Expedition

I saw this geohash on Sunday morning, after I'd already decided to go for a bike ride. It transpired that the geohash was actually right on the very route I was planning to take - to Channel Island in Darwin Harbour.

Spending about 2 hours getting my shit together for my ride, off I went towards the hash. A bit over an hour later I was there, and proceeded to spend about 30 minutes frigging around with my various phones and GPSes trying to get a good reading. Soon I started running out of batteries in all devices and I abandoned exactitude in order to complete the ride. Channel Island was a pretty cool destination, 50kms from the Darwin CBD with views across the whole harbour. It's connected by a long road bridge to the mainland.

On my way return, I popped in to visit my friend Lucy, who'd just finished her own epic bike ride. Together, with her dog Pinto, we went back to the hash to get more precision. We had dinner and I rode home, returning home at 10pm.

Tracklog

Here is the route I took.

Photos

Geohash success - Palmerston @-12.4949,130.9680
Felix & Lucy at the geohash. @-12.4949,130.9683

Achievements

Felix Dance earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 99.3kms to and from the (-12, 130) geohash on 2015-08-16.

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 == Location ==
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+Just off a main road in Palmerston.
 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+*[[User:Felix Dance|Felix]]
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+*Lucy
-== Plans ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
 == Expedition ==
 <!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+I saw this geohash on Sunday morning, after I'd already decided to go for a bike ride.  It transpired that the geohash was actually right on the very route I was planning to take - to Channel Island in Darwin Harbour.
+Spending about 2 hours getting my shit together for my ride, off I went towards the hash.  A bit over an hour later I was there, and proceeded to spend about 30 minutes frigging around with my various phones and GPSes trying to get a good reading.  Soon I started running out of batteries in all devices and I abandoned exactitude in order to complete the ride.  Channel Island was a pretty cool destination, 50kms from the Darwin CBD with views across the whole harbour.  It's connected by a long road bridge to the mainland.
+On my way return, I popped in to visit my friend Lucy, who'd just finished her own epic bike ride.  Together, with her dog Pinto, we went back to the hash to get more precision.  We had dinner and I rode home, returning home at 10pm.
 == Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+[https://goo.gl/maps/XiypB Here] is the route I took.
 == Photos ==
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 == Achievements ==
-{{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}}
+{{bicycle geohash
-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
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-[[Category:New report]]
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-<!-- If this is a planning page:
-[[Category:Expedition planning]]
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-<!-- if you reached your coords:
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-When there is a natural obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - Mother Nature]]
-When there is a man-made obstacle between you and the target:
-[[Category:Not reached - No public access]]
-When you failed get your GPS, car, bike or such to work:
+    | latitude = -12
-[[Category:Not reached - Technology]]
+    | longitude = 130
+    | date = 2015-08-16
-When you went to an alternate location instead of the actual geohash:
+    | name = [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]]
-[[Category:Not reached - Attended alternate location]]
+     | distance = 99.3kms
+    | bothways = true
+    | image = 2015-08-16_-12_130_Felix Dance_1439694620019.jpg
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+}}


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