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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
 
In a field just outside Grays, Essex.
 
In a field just outside Grays, Essex.
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== Photos ==  
 
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Image:2015-08-23 51 0 LooksPleasant.jpg | I think littering is Essex's national industry.
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Image:2015-08-23 51 0 OminousCar.jpg | Will the farmer hunt me like a rabid animal? Nah, it's empty.
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Image:2015-08-23 51 0 LandmarkTree.jpg | I line up on a tree...
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Image:2015-08-23 51 0 HashingFarmer.jpg | ... and follow the geohashing farmer's tracks.
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Image:2015-08-23 51 0 HashLookBack.jpg | You thought I was joking about the farmer, didn't you? (Well, I guess I was)
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== What's With All The Windmills? ==
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I've highlighted pictures of windmills in three of my last five reports (the other two being [[2015-08-10 52 -3]] and [[2015-08-22 51 0]]). What's up with that?
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Well... this:
  
 
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(It goes up a level with each 3 you photograph; turbines have three blades, see.)
  
 
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Latest revision as of 01:17, 7 August 2019

2015-08-23 51 0 StupidCloseup.jpg
Sun 23 Aug 2015 in London East, UK:
51.4770078, 0.3592578
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Location

In a field just outside Grays, Essex.

Participants

Plans

Well, how can I not take a stab at this one? It's less than three miles from my house; that's practically an honorary Couch Potato!

Expedition

This turned out to be... exactly as easy as I thought it would be. I parked on the kerb opposite the entrance to the field, walked along the edge until I was lined up with the tree from Google Maps, and then paced the 50m across the stubble-filled field until I reached the hash.

The only real concern I had was that the ominous-looking four-wheel-drive vehicle sitting by the field might contain a mob of angry farmers with shotguns... but it didn't, so that was all right.

Photos

What's With All The Windmills?

I've highlighted pictures of windmills in three of my last five reports (the other two being 2015-08-10 52 -3 and 2015-08-22 51 0). What's up with that?

Well... this:

Achievements

Quixote.PNG
Huinesoron (talk) earned the Tilting At Hashpoints Achievement (Level 1)
by encountering windmills/wind turbines at 3 hashpoints including the (51, 0) geohash on 2015-08-23.
2015-08-23 51 0 DarkSatanicTurbines.jpg

(It goes up a level with each 3 you photograph; turbines have three blades, see.)

Consecutivegeohash.jpg
Huinesoron (talk) earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching hash points on 2 consecutive days starting on 2015-08-22.