2009-12-23 -37 145

Wed 23 Dec 2009 in -37,145: -37.6898260, 145.1131892 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

East Melbourne graticulate, public reserve, close to the intersection of the Greensborough Highway and Diamond Creek Road

Participants

• Kozz
• Kozz's dog

Pre-Christmas Geohash

I've been waiting for a while to see some hashes turn up relatively close to the city in the Melbourne East graticulate, lamenting that there don't seem to be any around the suburbs of Melbourne - which actually sprawls quite a way. So it was with some excitement that I realised that the hash for the 23rd December was easily within driving distance.

Weather forecasts indicated a 36-degree-celsius day so I set out relatively early, ie 9.30am, and followed the GPS and instinct from my home in Blackburn up through the north-eastern suburbs to the corner of the Greensborough Highway. I crossed over the roundabout and parked in the leisure centre carpark, having spotted easy access to the hash point via a pedestrian footbridge over the highway.

There's a footpath that runs parallel to the highway and would take me right up to the hash point, and from the aerial photo, it looked straightforward enough to find the exact point of the hash. When I arrived it transpired there was a six-foot chainlink fence obstructing access, and trespass warning signs around. My GPS told me that I was within 10 metres of the hash point, so I posted a greeting from the internet on the fence, got a photo of the dog posing in front of it, then was on my way to Westerfield Park to take the dog for a lengthy walk.