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== Location == | == Location == | ||
| − | + | Between two lanes of Monash Freeway, where it passes over Ferntree Gully Rd. | |
== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
| − | + | [[User:Stevage|Stevage]] | |
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| + | == Expedition == | ||
| + | Like most of my solo geohashes, this one started with a tip-off from [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]]. "Guys, guys!" he wrote. | ||
| − | + | Anyway, it looked like an intriguing spot: between two lanes of a freeway, but accessible without crossing either of them. Curious. It was 3 in the afternoon, and I'd been working hard all day from home (and up late the night before too), so I didn't feel too guilty about taking a break to drive out there. | |
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| − | + | Parking at an abandoned (or dormant?) Vicroads project office, I wandered through relics of urban decay like rotting carpet, old signs, dumped computers and masses of broken glass. I scrambled up underneath the overpass, trying pathetically to remember how to get the GPS to show the direction to the hash. (How quickly you forget when a newer, sexier technology like a smartphone comes along...) | |
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| − | + | At the top of the slope (I'm sure Felix knows the technical words for all the bits of bridge, overpass etc...) there was a short fence, making it a proper geohash. I hopped over, and immediately became so distracted with all the technology in my hands that I became completely oblivious to the masses of traffic swirling in all directions. It was actually a pretty surreal spot: the city in the distance, cars and trucks on both sides and beneath me, but somehow very peaceful too. I clicked and clacked and tapped and swiped, then made like a shepherd and got the flock out of there. | |
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| − | == | + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_15-30-19-092.jpg | Success! [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.90276585&lon=145.15286177&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @-37.9028,145.1529] |
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| − | + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_21-38-41-117.jpg | Proof. | |
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| + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_21-39-21-507.jpg | | ||
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| + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_21-40-18-276.jpg | Urban decay. | ||
| + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_21-40-57-925.jpg | Creepy urban jungle. | ||
| − | + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_21-41-42-577.jpg | Comfy spot under the overpass. | |
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| − | + | Image:2012-03-16_-37_145_21-42-19-874.jpg | Post-hash coffee art. | |
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Latest revision as of 12:13, 1 August 2020
| Fri 16 Mar 2012 in -37,145: -37.9029366, 145.1530995 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Between two lanes of Monash Freeway, where it passes over Ferntree Gully Rd.
Participants
Expedition
Like most of my solo geohashes, this one started with a tip-off from Felix Dance. "Guys, guys!" he wrote.
Anyway, it looked like an intriguing spot: between two lanes of a freeway, but accessible without crossing either of them. Curious. It was 3 in the afternoon, and I'd been working hard all day from home (and up late the night before too), so I didn't feel too guilty about taking a break to drive out there.
Parking at an abandoned (or dormant?) Vicroads project office, I wandered through relics of urban decay like rotting carpet, old signs, dumped computers and masses of broken glass. I scrambled up underneath the overpass, trying pathetically to remember how to get the GPS to show the direction to the hash. (How quickly you forget when a newer, sexier technology like a smartphone comes along...)
At the top of the slope (I'm sure Felix knows the technical words for all the bits of bridge, overpass etc...) there was a short fence, making it a proper geohash. I hopped over, and immediately became so distracted with all the technology in my hands that I became completely oblivious to the masses of traffic swirling in all directions. It was actually a pretty surreal spot: the city in the distance, cars and trucks on both sides and beneath me, but somehow very peaceful too. I clicked and clacked and tapped and swiped, then made like a shepherd and got the flock out of there.
Photos
Success! @-37.9028,145.1529
Proof.
Urban decay.
Creepy urban jungle.
Comfy spot under the overpass.
Post-hash coffee art.
