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Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 kayak1.jpg | Heading back to land. | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 kayak1.jpg | Heading back to land. | ||
Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 calendarGirl.jpg | A Calendar Girl photo op while waiting for the kayak to dry. | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 calendarGirl.jpg | A Calendar Girl photo op while waiting for the kayak to dry. | ||
| + | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 mailbox1.jpg | Stopped at a mailbox on the ride back to the ferry terminal. | ||
| + | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 mailbox2.jpg | Hashcard! | ||
| + | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 queue.jpg | They sold out of passenger tickets for the 19:00 ferry an hour in advance. | ||
Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 jadziaSwartzBay.jpg | Waited around Swartz Bay for three hours to get on a ferry. | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 jadziaSwartzBay.jpg | Waited around Swartz Bay for three hours to get on a ferry. | ||
| + | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 seat.jpg | I sprawled out on these three seats on the same ferry for both rides. | ||
| + | Image:2009-05-17 48 -123 marineDrive.jpg | Biking home well past midnight. | ||
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Revision as of 23:23, 18 May 2009
| Sun 17 May 2009 in 48,-123: 48.7104108, -123.4668811 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Between Saanich Peninsula, and Salt Spring Island.
Participants
- Elbie, with a bike trailer containing, amazingly enough, a kayak.
The Plan
- 13:00 - ferry leaves Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay
- 15:00 - arrive at the public boat launch on Lands End Road, at the northern tip of the Saanich Peninsula
- hopefully 15:30 - get on the water
- hopefully 16:30 - get to the hashpoint
- 18:00 - start packing up kayak, head back to the ferry terminal
- 19:00 - ferry leaves Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen
Expedition
Abridged: I biked, I bussed, I ferried, I biked some more, then I kayaked, got there, paddled back, biked some more, ferried, bussed, and then biked home.
Proper writeup pending.
Photos
Yarr?
At the coordinates.
Less blurry GPS shot to show my elevation (-6m).
Heading back to land.
A Calendar Girl photo op while waiting for the kayak to dry.
Stopped at a mailbox on the ride back to the ferry terminal.
Hashcard!
They sold out of passenger tickets for the 19:00 ferry an hour in advance.
Waited around Swartz Bay for three hours to get on a ferry.
I sprawled out on these three seats on the same ferry for both rides.
Biking home well past midnight.
Achievements
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Elbie earned the Water geohash achievement
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Elbie earned the Lowest Geohash Achievement
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Elbie earned the Buccaneer Geohash Achievement
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Elbie earned the Calendar girl achievement
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Elbie earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
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