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− | In a field overlooking the ocean, near the | + | In a field overlooking the ocean, near the RACV resort in Inverloch. |
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=== [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] === | === [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] === | ||
+ | Well annoyingly, I seem to have failed to saved the page after I finished it. I'm going to see if it's still saved in my browser history at work. I just kept clicking Show Preview until I closed down the browser. How annoying. | ||
+ | Just before heading home from work at the desalination plant in Wonthaggi, I noticed that the geohash point for the day was extremely accessible - almost suspiciously so. Riding home with German workmate Nicola, I turned off mysteriously at an intersection outside my now hometown of Inverloch towards the hash. After some navigational issues spawned from the access road on Google Maps in fact being a private driveway, I was bike-clambouring my way up the dunes to an exclusive RACV coastal resort. | ||
− | [ Here] is the Google Maps route I took. | + | After negotiating a caravan park and tying up my bike I scaled a barbed wire fence into the undeveloped bushland of a dry valley. From here I hurtled towards the hash point, with mere metres to go. Sadly, after crossing a recently ploughed field, I found myself confronting a serious barbed wire and triple-electrified fence (and I don't just mean three-phase!). Also threatening the hash were several bulls looking on at me warily from the hash-field, although I judged I could probably be in, at the hash and out in the time they had to charge me. |
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+ | Using local resources to climb the unfriendly fence without getting electrocuted, I quickly sauntered over to the hash, took some photos and got back to the safe side before the bulls could amass in too great-a-number over the nearby hill. Strutting back to my bike I tried to catch some kangas with my camera, but in the end just cycled off to my friend's birthday dinner party across town. | ||
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+ | [http://g.co/maps/eb5p2 Here] is the Google Maps route I took. | ||
== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
− | <gallery perrow=" | + | <gallery perrow="6"> |
− | + | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -38 145 Bulls.JPG|Bulls in the field | |
+ | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -38 145 Fence.JPG|Fence clambouring | ||
+ | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -38 145 Felix.JPG|Self-portrait | ||
+ | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -38 145 North.JPG|North view | ||
+ | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -38 145 GPS.JPG|GPS | ||
+ | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -38 145 Ocean.JPG|Ocean view | ||
+ | Image:Geohash 2011 12 13 -37 145 Kangaroo.JPG|Kangaroo! | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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[[Category:Expeditions]] | [[Category:Expeditions]] | ||
[[Category:Coordinates reached]] | [[Category:Coordinates reached]] | ||
− | [[Category:Bicycle | + | [[Category:Bicycle geohash achievement]] |
+ | {{location|AU|VIC|BC}} |
Latest revision as of 12:09, 1 August 2020
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Location
In a field overlooking the ocean, near the RACV resort in Inverloch.
Who went
Expedition
Felix Dance
Well annoyingly, I seem to have failed to saved the page after I finished it. I'm going to see if it's still saved in my browser history at work. I just kept clicking Show Preview until I closed down the browser. How annoying.
Just before heading home from work at the desalination plant in Wonthaggi, I noticed that the geohash point for the day was extremely accessible - almost suspiciously so. Riding home with German workmate Nicola, I turned off mysteriously at an intersection outside my now hometown of Inverloch towards the hash. After some navigational issues spawned from the access road on Google Maps in fact being a private driveway, I was bike-clambouring my way up the dunes to an exclusive RACV coastal resort.
After negotiating a caravan park and tying up my bike I scaled a barbed wire fence into the undeveloped bushland of a dry valley. From here I hurtled towards the hash point, with mere metres to go. Sadly, after crossing a recently ploughed field, I found myself confronting a serious barbed wire and triple-electrified fence (and I don't just mean three-phase!). Also threatening the hash were several bulls looking on at me warily from the hash-field, although I judged I could probably be in, at the hash and out in the time they had to charge me.
Using local resources to climb the unfriendly fence without getting electrocuted, I quickly sauntered over to the hash, took some photos and got back to the safe side before the bulls could amass in too great-a-number over the nearby hill. Strutting back to my bike I tried to catch some kangas with my camera, but in the end just cycled off to my friend's birthday dinner party across town.
Here is the Google Maps route I took.