2014-03-05 -37 145

Wed 5 Mar 2014 in -37,145: -37.7742498, 145.0276334 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

At a park in Fairfield.

Participants

• Lachie
• Justine

Expedition

Felix Dance noticed this hash from his home in Darwin. Lachie reported to him that he and his then girlfriend Justine reached the hash having planned to get there on Lachie's tandem. This is all we know of this hash.

Lachlan: Nine years late, but I just found proof that I went to the hash and the proof has triggered some memories.

Lachlan and Justine left Lachlan's house in Brunswick at 7:21pm on the tandem. They reached the hash at about 8pm and sent Felix and message to brag. Lachlan surely took a photo and a screenshot of the GPS but that phone got very wet in a hurricane in California.

They then rode to Moroccan Soup Bar and enjoyed a delicious dinner that included a variety of soups. Lachlan was pleasantly surprised at how good the food was, he had never thought of soup as being particularly exciting. Justine was not surprised, she knew that soup was good. At the end of the meal they tried to pay for the food but the person at the cash register said "don't worry about it", Lachlan and Justine were confused and questioned the decision. They were reassured that "sometimes we do this".

Lachlan often lies awake in bed at night pondering this interaction, unsure of how or why they got the free food. He was never quite sure whether to feel grateful or guilty. As they left the restaurant Lachlan vowed to return often to repay the good deed. Unfortunately Lachlan never returned and Moroccan Soup Bar shutdown. Allegedly due to the hardships of running a business in a pandemic, but Lachlan assumes that things would have been just fine if Moroccan soup bar hadn't foregone the money one fateful evening in 2014. Perhaps they were only two meals worth of money short of rent in 2020.

Flash forward to February 2023 and Lachlan heard a rumour that Moroccan Soup Bar had reopened and the new venue was much closer to his house. A quick google revealed that indeed the shop had reopened. But that's not all! The Google Maps listing held a hidden gem: "You visited 9 years ago". Always up for a trip down memory lane, Lachlan clicked the link to the location history. The path was odd, why would Lachlan and Justine have left home at 7:20pm, gone to a park in Fairfield and then gone to such a later dinner. Recognising his own erratic behavioue and lo and behold, that date had a poorly documented geohash at that location.

Note the map below is a little misleading. It shows all the real locations visited, plus an outlier point in North Melbourne. The times at Moroccan Soup Bar are accurate but Google location seems a little confused by a shop having moved.

Photos

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  Google location hsitory showing a visit to the hash.

Lachie and Justine earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to and from the (-37, 145) geohash on 2014-03-05.