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Location

Paddock in Tourello near Clunes.

Who went

Snaplatitude

Expedition

Snaplatitude

Hanging with a companion and looking for something to do so we found todays hash and headed straigh North up Gillies road to get there. We got as close as possible without breaking any local laws by taking a photo of a thistle just outside the fence where the horse which we assumed was the hash was happily masticating some fodder.

Along the way we saw some nice terrain, lots of gullys where rivers had been washed into the landscape by years of weather, we found a lovely ford and continued a short distance to Mount Beckworth to try and find the lollipop tree at the top of the hill, but that's another story.

All in all, a day well wasted.

Photos

Thistle shot by my companion at the hash

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 ==Expedition==
-=== [[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] ===
+=== [[User:Snaplatitude|Snaplatitude]] ===
-[[User:Sashazeg|Sashazeg]] and I were driving home from a three-day bushwalk in the Grampians - geological curiosity of Western Victoria - when we got word that there were two geohashes passibly on our route home.  This being the first, we drove along the Old Geelong Rd before turning off and parking a kilometre from the hash outside a wheat farm.
+Hanging with a companion and looking for something to do so we found todays hash and headed straigh North up Gillies road to get there.
+We got as close as possible without breaking any local laws by taking a photo of a thistle just outside the fence where the horse which we assumed was the hash was happily masticating some fodder.
-Sasha decided, again, to stay in the car so as not to trespass, while I jumped the fence and strolled towards the hash.  It was extremely hot and I was beginning to feel relieved that the hash was now only 400m away when what should I discover but that a vast wheat field was separating me from it.  Undeterred, I found a spot close enough to the hash and strolled through, creating a linear crop 'circle' as I strod.
+Along the way we saw some nice terrain, lots of gullys where rivers had been washed into the landscape by years of weather, we found a lovely ford and continued a short distance to Mount Beckworth to try and find the lollipop tree at the top of the hill, but that's another story.
-The feeling of wading through the wheat somewhat reminded me of swimming, and I was careful to avoid snakes and burs in my socks.  I saw the farmer way off in the distance on his combine harvester and got ready to duck when he looked my way.  Luckily, I was at the hash, taking photos, and stumbling my way back to the path and thence the car before he noticed.  Next: [[2011-12-30 -37 144|hash number two]] for the day.
+All in all, a day well wasted.
-[http://g.co/maps/ytyv4 Here] is the Google Maps route I took.
 == Photos ==


Mon 11 Jun 2012 in -37,143: -37.3606030, 143.8192530 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox