2009-06-08 -37 144

Mon 8 Jun 2009 in -37,144: -37.3825761, 144.9113854 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

The Place

Well the actual place turned out to be near the town of Wallan off the Northern Highway, but we went to a point 5kms to the west of New Gisborne. Let me explain.

Over the long weekend, I and some 13 fellow travellers went on a three day cycle tour around the towns to the west of Melbourne. We were riding from Castlemaine to Bacchus Marsh staying in the towns of Daylesford and Woodend. On Saturday morning I got up at 6am to take the train with the others from the nearby Southern Cross Station and turned on my computer to get the next three geohash coordinates.

Unfortunately, none of the Map Lookup sites was accessible for some reason - although the Wiki site was. I then searched around for some other way of getting the coordinates, coming to the Sydney Wiki site which had the coordinates posted. I carefully transcribed the decimal portion of these coordinates onto a piece of paper to enter later into my GPS and figure out the location of using my VicRoads Country Directory laminated photocopies which accompany me on all my cycle tours.

After a fairly wet but quite scenic 50km day we arrived at Daylesford and set our tents up in the rain. Here I transcribed the geohash coordinates into my GPS and worked out where they were in relation to the route we were taking - the first two had been and were dozens of kms away from where we had been/were going, but Monday's one seemed to be right on the very road we were intending to ride down as we approached the town of Gisborne. 'Awesome!', I exclaimed as I rushed to tell the others.

After day two riding from Daylesford to Woodend (where we spent several hours at the local brewery before heading off to stay at a farmhouse of one of the riders' parents), we embarked on the day of the geohash. We consumed the early part of the day with vanilla slices in Woodend, a picnic at Hanging Rock (which resulted in exactly the same number of people at the end as at the start), a hail climb up Mt Macedon, gratuitous amounts of faffing around and a foolish mountain bike down the too-steep-and-muddy other side.

Who Went

Felix Dance

Stevage

Matt

Photos

This user earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (-37, 144) geohash on 2009-06-08 Coordinates Unrelated to Geohash.