2013-02-09 -37 144

Sat 9 Feb 2013 in -37,144: -37.7752334, 144.9595604 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a street in Brunswick

Participants

• Felix Dance
• Miriam
• Tom
• Ed
• Acushla

Expedition 1 - Felix Dance

I was pretty amazed when I discovered this one - so rarely do hashes appear in gettable locations near the inner city. Mainly, however, I was amused by the irony that Lachie had gone all the way to Gordon, 120kms to the west of Melbourne, to get a geohash and wouldn't be back until the following day - missing the hash 150m from his house. Practically a couch-potato!

I rode my bike in the arvo with my GPS and camera, up along the Upfield train line bike path. Pretty much getting there straight away I did the geohash dance to get the right coordinates, took some photos, then rode to my friends Tom and Miriam's house nearby.

Expedition 2 - Felix Dance, Tom and Miriam

I arrived at Tom and Miriam's place and told them about the hash. They already knew and were planning to go themselves, so after a beer and a snack, we all walked together across the train lines. Again doing the geohash dance (must be bad GPS reception around there), we took some photos, talked to a curious business owner next to the hash, and walked back. Tom and I tried to rouse another nearby sharehouse (Lachie's place), but everyone was out. I rode off to Blackburn for dinner with my girlfriend.

Here is the route I took, including with Tom and Miriam. Total distance to hash from my place: 3.8kms. Total walk distance from Tom and Miriam's: 380m.

Expedition 3 - Notes from Lachie

I was out near Ballarat on a ridiculous bike ride for Friday's geohash 2013-02-08_-37_144 when i found these coordinates 150m from my house but my hash journey would not have me returning home until Sunday. I almost turned back so that i could get the couch potato honourable mention but continued my ride instead and settle for a puppet master couch potato. I called my friend Tom who lives around the corner and my house mates Ed and Acushla asking all of them to do the geohash. Ed is already a geohasher so he doesn't count for the achievement. Tom had been on one hash before as a drag along so was borderline.So i decided Miriam was my puppet. Felix showed up at their house to take them to it but as I told them about it first I'm claiming the ribbon.

Expedition 4 - Ed

Ed went on his own later on and got photos which he will upload at some point.

Expedition 5 - Acushla

Acushla went on her own but did not take any photos.

Photos

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  Felix at the hash

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  GPS Proof

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  Miriam finding the hash

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  Tom looks intently at phone

Achievements

Tom and Miriam earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (-37, 144) geohash on 2013-02-09 on foot, travelling a distance of 760m.

Felix Dance earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 51kms to and from the (-37, 144) geohash on 2013-02-09.

Lachie earned the Puppet Master Couch Potato Honourable Mention Consolation Prize by being along way from home on a geohash trip when it fell at his house so calling various people to do it for him at the (-37, 144) geohash on 2013-02-09.