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So we packed food (supper was already spaghetti, just threw the ingredients in a bag), beverages, GPS, camera, etc. and off we went to the boat.
 
So we packed food (supper was already spaghetti, just threw the ingredients in a bag), beverages, GPS, camera, etc. and off we went to the boat.
  
I just showed him roughly where we were going and loaded it up on the GPS and we settled down for a nice ride. Cooked our meal along the way. Marvelling that we live on an island and have a boat and could just do this on the spur of the moment.  
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I just showed him roughly where we were going and loaded it up on the GPS and we settled down for a nice ride. Cooked our meal along the way. Ate it. Marvelling that we live on an island and have a boat and could just do this on the spur of the moment.
  
It was FUN and RANDOM and I'm glad I did it.
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Eventually we got as close as we could given the vagaries of tides and GPS but I think we did very well on a first try with the boat.
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Then we cruised around Stubbs Island to see if any sea lions were in evidence (they weren't) and then headed home again. Maybe saw a whale. When we got back to Rough Bay we checked the crab traps we'd put out the day before but they were empty save for a too-small crab and a wee ?flounder? both of which we threw back. Docked feeling as happy as we'd ever been. Amazing evening on the boat.
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All thanks to this bizarre thing called geohashing - we were both grateful and amazed at our excellent adventure.
  
 
== Tracklog ==
 
== Tracklog ==
  
THIS was a bigger challenge than getting close to the hashpoint. I have the raw data if anyone really cares. This map courtesy of GPS Visualizer and a whole DAY spent trying to get rid of extraneous crap Garmin added to the file and the rest of the time the thing was turned on. As good as it gets.
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Remembering how to do this after 4 years. This should work.
 
 
And it seems I DID manage a circle around the hashpoint and got closer than I thought. You have to zoom in to actually see that.
 
  
[http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msid=209617897925873257647.0004baa18c1a51cf1da8c&msa=0 map on google]
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[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ezMibe7gd7nWaBgC1ENbo1M-BfA&usp=sharing]
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
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Image: December2011_142.jpg|In the ditch on the way to my destination
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 A.jpg|Looking NE from the point
Image: December2011_147.jpg|Nice moss on the trees
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 B.jpg|Pearse Islands from the hashpoint
Image: December2011_148.jpg|OLD snowshoes, new bindings, they WORKED
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 C.jpg|Stubbs Island
Image: December2011_149.jpg|Ski poles are handy when you fall down (I did, often).
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 D.jpg|Donegal Head on Malcolm Island from hashpoint.
Image: December2011_155.jpg|Close enough, IMHO
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 E.jpg|BC mainland from a little farther along
Image: December2011_157.jpg|Me at the spot. Wish I was more photogenic hahahah.
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 F.jpg|Sointula on the way home. Our house the white with red roof in the middle.
Image: December2011_160.jpg|The trail back down.
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Image: 2016-06-28 50 -126 G.jpg|Our trusty steed.
 
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Latest revision as of 05:00, 20 March 2024

Tue 28 Jun 2016 in 50,-126:
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Location

On the ocean somewhere south of Donegal Head on Malcolm Island, a bit west of Stubbs Island, somewhere about where Weynton Passage meets Cormorant Channel.

Participants

  • dunstergirl. And my partner David on his first geohashing adventure.

Plans

Last minute 4:30 pm "Hey how would you like to go on an adventure in the boat?"

Expedition

I just moved to Malcolm Island last fall but this is my first geohashing adventure since I arrived. I'd told David (who has a boat, which you need around here) much about my previous geohashing adventures in the Robson Valley, and from time to time remembered to check for points, but they were usually far away or inconvenient for the day. But today I checked last minute, there it was maybe an hour's boat trip away, beautiful evening, and he was game.

So we packed food (supper was already spaghetti, just threw the ingredients in a bag), beverages, GPS, camera, etc. and off we went to the boat.

I just showed him roughly where we were going and loaded it up on the GPS and we settled down for a nice ride. Cooked our meal along the way. Ate it. Marvelling that we live on an island and have a boat and could just do this on the spur of the moment.

Eventually we got as close as we could given the vagaries of tides and GPS but I think we did very well on a first try with the boat.

Then we cruised around Stubbs Island to see if any sea lions were in evidence (they weren't) and then headed home again. Maybe saw a whale. When we got back to Rough Bay we checked the crab traps we'd put out the day before but they were empty save for a too-small crab and a wee ?flounder? both of which we threw back. Docked feeling as happy as we'd ever been. Amazing evening on the boat.

All thanks to this bizarre thing called geohashing - we were both grateful and amazed at our excellent adventure.

Tracklog

Remembering how to do this after 4 years. This should work.

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Photos

Achievements

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dunstergirl earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (50, -126) graticule, here, on 2016-06-28.
2016-06-28 50 -126 C.jpg


Watergeohash.jpg
dunstergirl earned the Water geohash achievement
by reaching the (50, -126) geohash on 2016-06-28.