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== Location == | == Location == | ||
| − | In a fallow field | + | In a fallow field at dusk east of Benalla, Victoria. |
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== Expedition == | == Expedition == | ||
| + | Another successful Benalla-adjacent geohash. Very straight-forward mostly - I saw the hash when I woke up, knew I'd be going for it all day at work at the precast factory, rode my bike home and then, getting on my *other* bike - I have a crappy old road bike and a fancy new road bike - I hurtled off down the road towards the hash. | ||
| + | As I was leaving the motel and heading along next to the airport I soon realised that the warm, dusky evening had produced an absolute brick wall worth of tiny insects in the air. It was like heavy rain. I didn't bring along my work's safety glasses so I just had to squeeze my eyes shut, look at the ground, and glance up occasionally through my fingers to see if I was about to crash into something. | ||
| − | [ Here] is the route I took. | + | I thought it might ease up as I got into different terrain or later as the sun set. But no, it got worse. After half an hour or so I turned off the familiar road east out of town onto a quiet dirt road south. And the bugs got even more shockingly thick! I had to stop every couple of hundred metres to scoop the stinging sensation off my eyeballs. |
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| + | The sunset was very dramatic, from what little of it I could bear to see of it. After crossing a few creeks (even more bugs!) I arrived at the hashpoint. A fallow field of tall grass on rolling hills overlooking a valley. Very picturesque. | ||
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| + | I vaulted the barbed-wire fence and tramped 100m over to the hash. A few photos and some admiring of the dregs of the sun and I was back to my bike, the fence proving somewhat more difficult on the return. | ||
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| + | I rode back along the dirt road to retrace my steps. A hoony teen passed me stirring up dust but honestly it was a relief as it seemed to scatter the insects. | ||
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| + | I returned home a bit before 9pm. Although the bugs had abated somewhat eventually I still had to spend some time scraping the corners of my eyes free of carcases. | ||
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| + | [https://goo.gl/maps/MA3ACNrdWzTBC7FY8 Here] is the route I took. | ||
== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
| + | <gallery> | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 01 Road in.jpg|Dirt road to the hash | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 02 Cows.jpg|Sunset cows | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 03 Insects.jpg|So many bugs! | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 04 Grass.jpg|Long grass | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 09 GPS.jpg|GPS Proof | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 05 Sunset.jpg|Hash dusk | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 06 Felix.jpg|Me at the hash | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 07 Panorama.jpg|Hashorama | ||
| + | File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 08 Dust.jpg|Dusty road | ||
| + | </gallery> | ||
== Achievements == | == Achievements == | ||
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Location
In a fallow field at dusk east of Benalla, Victoria.
Participants
Expedition
Another successful Benalla-adjacent geohash. Very straight-forward mostly - I saw the hash when I woke up, knew I'd be going for it all day at work at the precast factory, rode my bike home and then, getting on my *other* bike - I have a crappy old road bike and a fancy new road bike - I hurtled off down the road towards the hash.
As I was leaving the motel and heading along next to the airport I soon realised that the warm, dusky evening had produced an absolute brick wall worth of tiny insects in the air. It was like heavy rain. I didn't bring along my work's safety glasses so I just had to squeeze my eyes shut, look at the ground, and glance up occasionally through my fingers to see if I was about to crash into something.
I thought it might ease up as I got into different terrain or later as the sun set. But no, it got worse. After half an hour or so I turned off the familiar road east out of town onto a quiet dirt road south. And the bugs got even more shockingly thick! I had to stop every couple of hundred metres to scoop the stinging sensation off my eyeballs.
The sunset was very dramatic, from what little of it I could bear to see of it. After crossing a few creeks (even more bugs!) I arrived at the hashpoint. A fallow field of tall grass on rolling hills overlooking a valley. Very picturesque.
I vaulted the barbed-wire fence and tramped 100m over to the hash. A few photos and some admiring of the dregs of the sun and I was back to my bike, the fence proving somewhat more difficult on the return.
I rode back along the dirt road to retrace my steps. A hoony teen passed me stirring up dust but honestly it was a relief as it seemed to scatter the insects.
I returned home a bit before 9pm. Although the bugs had abated somewhat eventually I still had to spend some time scraping the corners of my eyes free of carcases.
Here is the route I took.
Photos
Dirt road to the hash
Sunset cows
So many bugs!
Long grass
GPS Proof
Hash dusk
Me at the hash
Hashorama
Dusty road
Achievements
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Felix earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
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