2010-01-15 -37 145

Fri 15 Jan 2010 in -37,145: -37.8019900, 145.2285160 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Side of the road in Gabriella Court, suburbia, Ringwood.

Plans

Kozz has work out in the Eastern Suburbs in the afternoon so will try to swing by and grab some photos en route.

Expedition

Kozz Bit of a disappointment! I had a couple of errands to run out in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and decided to jump on this geohash as it was within easy striking distance. Was going to try a Tron but realised that I would have ended up crossing my path on the way back home. Just after I'd completed the final errand, my phone rung with a request to get back into the office ASAP and I decided to head back in via the hashpoint very briefly.

I actually passed the hashpoint from the 4th January on the way but didn't get the camera out in time to grab a photo. Then as I was about 500m away from the hashpoint, the batteries died on the GPS! I quickly switched round the batteries from the camera, and kept going, but when it got to the actual hash point the camera took just two photos of the working GPS and then shut down with just 14m to go.

The hashpoint was on a little suburban dead-end road with a turning circle on one of the bends, at the edge of the circle. I got out of the car, walked to the hash point, stood there looking stupid, then jumped back in the car and headed back to the office, realising only after I'd left the point that of course my phone has a camera on it!

So sorry - just a couple of photos of the GPS and the oodles of trash in my car - but the -37, 145 coordinates were successfully reached.