Difference between revisions of "2024-05-26 -40 145"

Latest revision as of 00:32, 4 June 2024

Location

In a bovine paddock south of Forest.

Participants

Felix

Expedition

I've been travelling with my baby daughter Gretel and partner Ruth along the north-west coast of Tasmania. Yesterday, we got off the ferry from Geelong at Davenport and drove to Stanley, a town on a peninsula off a peninsula, next to the imposing 'Nut' rocky plateau.

Anyway, there were no good geohashes on the way there (not without a bit more detouring than I was willing to suggest anyway). But today, the geohashing gods smiled upon me. There was a point only 24 minutes drive away, and then only 200m off the road inside a farm. It looked far away from any farmhouses and relatively easily accessible so it was on.

We climbed the Nut in the morning and then had lunch. And before Gretel's 2nd one hour nap I popped off in the car as the rain sheeted down and headed towards the hash.

The road was immediately very winding and rural, with not much traffic to contend with. In little time I was in the vicinity and pulled over. I went over to the farm gate and was immediately confronted with a small problem. Just beyond the fence was a chunky and menacing-looking bull. Maybe it was a just a large cow? No, there was a big, swinging dick dangling beneath it.

I was about to get back in the car and drive back to Stanley in defeat when I noticed that the bull was actually on the other side of an electric fence. No worries then! I opened the gate and closed it behind me, and walked down the track next to the fence and gully towards the hash.

Unfortunately, the hash was on the other side of a gate in the bull-enclosing electric fence further down, over a little causeway across the gully. I was about to turn around here too, but I thought I'd look a bit closer.

There were several cows and actually a second bull in this paddock, it seemed. But as I approached this other gate, they all started trotting away from me, and looking back in curiosity/wariness. I thought, well, I'll go through and just clip the gate shut. If the bulls rush towards me I can always leg it back through the gate. I'll just test the waters and see what they do.

So I gingerly entered the bad paddock, slowly approaching the hash. I went from 46m at the gate down to 20m before I realised that, actually, I was in the wrong paddock. There was another barbed and electric fence separating the hash from mine and the bull's paddock. So I very quickly sneaked underneath this fence, walked right up to the hash and got it. I took some photos, flipped off the bulls and walked around to another gate, properly locked the gate I'd earlier gone through into the bull paddock, and then back up the track and into the car. I turned around and went home just as the rain set in again. I arrived well before Gretel awoke from her nap.

I also only realised that this had been an 'unlocked' graticule when John mentioned that he hadn't been here in the gchat group. Double win!

Photos

Felix at the hash
Bull
Hashgate
Closing in
GPS proof
Paddock

Achievements

Felix earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement

by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (-40, 145) graticule, here, on 2024-05-26.

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+== Location ==
+In a bovine paddock south of Forest.
+== Participants ==
+*[[User:Felix Dance|Felix]]
+== Expedition ==
+I've been travelling with my baby daughter [[User:Gretel|Gretel]] and partner [[User:Ruth|Ruth]] along the north-west coast of Tasmania. Yesterday, we got off the ferry from Geelong at Davenport and drove to Stanley, a town on a peninsula off a peninsula, next to the imposing 'Nut' rocky plateau.
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+Anyway, there were no good geohashes on the way there (not without a bit more detouring than I was willing to suggest anyway). But today, the geohashing gods smiled upon me. There was a point only 24 minutes drive away, and then only 200m off the road inside a farm. It looked far away from any farmhouses and relatively easily accessible so it was on.
-Remove this section if you don't want an image at the top (left) of your report. You should remove the "Image:" or "File:"
+We climbed the Nut in the morning and then had lunch. And before Gretel's 2nd one hour nap I popped off in the car as the rain sheeted down and headed towards the hash.
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-And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :)
+The road was immediately very winding and rural, with not much traffic to contend with. In little time I was in the vicinity and pulled over. I went over to the farm gate and was immediately confronted with a small problem. Just beyond the fence was a chunky and menacing-looking bull. Maybe it was a just a large cow? No, there was a big, swinging dick dangling beneath it.
--->{{meetup graticule|date=2024-05-26|lat=-40|lon=145}}
-== Location ==
+I was about to get back in the car and drive back to Stanley in defeat when I noticed that the bull was actually on the other side of an electric fence. No worries then! I opened the gate and closed it behind me, and walked down the track next to the fence and gully towards the hash.
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-== Participants ==
+Unfortunately, the hash was on the other side of a gate in the bull-enclosing electric fence further down, over a little causeway across the gully. I was about to turn around here too, but I thought I'd look a bit closer.
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-== Plans ==
+There were several cows and actually a second bull in this paddock, it seemed. But as I approached this other gate, they all started trotting away from me, and looking back in curiosity/wariness. I thought, well, I'll go through and just clip the gate shut. If the bulls rush towards me I can always leg it back through the gate. I'll just test the waters and see what they do.
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-== Expedition ==
+So I gingerly entered the bad paddock, slowly approaching the hash. I went from 46m at the gate down to 20m before I realised that, actually, I was in the wrong paddock. There was another barbed and electric fence separating the hash from mine and the bull's paddock. So I very quickly sneaked underneath this fence, walked right up to the hash and got it. I took some photos, flipped off the bulls and walked around to another gate, properly locked the gate I'd earlier gone through into the bull paddock, and then back up the track and into the car. I turned around and went home just as the rain set in again. I arrived well before Gretel awoke from her nap.
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+I also only realised that this had been an 'unlocked' graticule when [[User:Johnwrw|John]] mentioned that he hadn't been here in the gchat group. Double win!
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 Image:2024-05-26_-40_145_Felix Dance_1716701077644.jpg|Bull
+Image:2024-05-26_-40_145_Felix Dance_1716701097922.jpg|Hashgate
+Image:2024-05-26_-40_145_Felix Dance_1716701118035.jpg|Closing in
+Image:2024-05-26_-40_145_Felix Dance_1716701161039.jpg|GPS proof
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+| date = 2024-05-26
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+| name = [[User:Felix Dance|Felix]]
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