Difference between revisions of "2012-02-19 -37 144"

Latest revision as of 12:12, 1 August 2020

Location

On a road in bleak Laverton

Who went

Felix Dance

Expedition

Felix Dance

It didn’t take much to convince myself to go for this one. Having the Sunday morning free I jumped straight on my bike and headed out along the Geelong road towards Laverton. After 20 Ks of darting in and out of the service lane and finally traversing lonely kilometres of quiet industrial estate I reached the point. All too easy. The scene was not entirely devoid of interest, it being just on the roadside next to the Westgate Freeway. I could see across the Laverton Grasslands towards the city skyline, punctuated by a steamy oil refinery.

Deciding to take the long way home, I crossed beneath a freight train in a flooded and tadpole riddled underpass before heading towards the coast. The Altona wetlands entertained me as I took the foreshore bike path back to Melbourne, around Williamstown and under the Westgate Bridge. Quite a nice ride in the end, getting home about 1:30pm. In fact, this one qualifies me for the Tron award...

Here is the Bikely route I took.

Total Distance: 53.6kms.

Photos

Felix at the hash
GPS Proof
Hash-Road
Refinery/Melbourne
Hash-bike
Freight train over dilapidated bridge
Altona foreshore upon return
My beloved Melbourne
Westgate Bridge Awesomeness

Ribbons

Felix Dance earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling 45kms to the (-37, 144) geohash on 2012-02-19.

Felix Dance earned the Tron achievement

by reaching and returning from the (-37, 144) geohash without crossing his own tracks on 2012-02-19.

Felix Dance earned the Last man standing achievement

by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2012-02-19.

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 ==Expedition==
 === [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] ===
-Please check back tomorrow - description to come!
+It didn’t take much to convince myself to go for this one.  Having the Sunday morning free I jumped straight on my bike and headed out along the Geelong road towards Laverton.  After 20 Ks of darting in and out of the service lane and finally traversing lonely kilometres of quiet industrial estate I reached the point.  All too easy.  The scene was not entirely devoid of interest, it being just on the roadside next to the Westgate Freeway.  I could see across the Laverton Grasslands towards the city skyline, punctuated by a steamy oil refinery.
-[ Here] is the Google Maps route I took.
+Deciding to take the long way home, I crossed beneath a freight train in a flooded and tadpole riddled underpass before heading towards the coast.  The Altona wetlands entertained me as I took the foreshore bike path back to Melbourne, around Williamstown and under the Westgate Bridge.  Quite a nice ride in the end, getting home about 1:30pm.  In fact, this one qualifies me for the Tron award...
+[http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/geohash-2012-02-19-37-144-felix-dance Here] is the Bikely route I took.
+Total Distance: 53.6kms.
 == Photos ==
-<gallery perrow="4">
+<gallery perrow="5">
 Image:Geohash 2012 02 19 -37 144 Felix.JPG|Felix at the hash
 Image:Geohash 2012 02 19 -37 144 GPS.JPG|GPS Proof
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 }}
+{{Tron
+    | latitude = -37
+    | longitude = 144
+    | date = 2012-02-19
+    | tracklog = http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/geohash-2012-02-19-37-144-felix-dance
+    | possessive = his
+    | name = [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]]
+    | image = Geohash 2012 02 19 -37 144 Felix.JPG
+}}
+{{Last man standing
+| latitude = -37
+| longitude = 144
+| date = 2012-02-19
+| gender = man
+| name = [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]]
+| image = Geohash 2012 02 19 -37 144 Felix.JPG
+}}
 [[Category:Expeditions]]
+[[Category:Expeditions with photos]]
 [[Category:Coordinates reached]]
-[[Category:New report]]
 [[Category:Bicycle geohash achievement]]
+{{location|AU|VIC|HB}}


Sun 19 Feb 2012 in -37,144: -37.8569418, 144.7795905 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox