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== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
| + | [[User:Kozz|Kozz]] | ||
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| + | == Plans == | ||
| + | Initially - head out on the bike first thing in the morning. | ||
| + | Actuality - by car and foot. | ||
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| + | == Expedition == | ||
| + | [[user:Kozz|Kozz]]: This wasn't too far away from home, and initially I'd hoped to do an early morning cycle geohash but a combo of overnight rain and a migraine kept me in bed till the late morning. I decided to include the geohash with a trip to the chemist to find painkillers, theorising it wouldn't take too long. | ||
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| + | Slotted the coords into the satnav and followed its instructions; in the middle of an area marked asa reserve on Google Maps. It looked as if it wanted me to drive the wrong direction up a motorway offramp to get there, so I used dead reckoning to find another entrance to what appeared to be a massive open green parkland. The decision to not follow the satnav would prove to be costly. | ||
| + | I found a road leading to a marked path leading to the corner of the open green area, and took a quick walk along the path - it's part of the Dandenong Creek Trail, one of a myriad of creek trails in Melbourne. To the right was a fenced off area - which transpired to be a quarry - and to the left there were fields, and from somewhere nearby I could hear heavy machinery at work. As I continued on I pondered why the parkland was fenced off by a 9 foot chainlink fence, but pressed on as the path swung south then east again vaguely towards the hashpoint. | ||
| − | + | About 1km in and still 350m from the hashpoint, I walked past a carpark next to a massive barn-like building. Stacked outside were about 30 mattresses, and...I realised I could smell the unmistakeable stench of decaying garbage. Lots of it. | |
| + | The reason I could hear heavy machinery was because it was operating in a 'transfer station' - otherwise known as a town refuse dump, tip, or trash pile. | ||
| − | + | Yes that's right - the hash for today in Melbourne East is in the middle of a MASSIVE HEAP OF TRASH. | |
| + | I toyed with the idea of doing the world's most comprehensive geotrash collection - I mean, c'mon, BONANZA - but gave up the idea pretty much immediately. Aside from the physical danger - who wants to be walking over piles of refuse - there is the discomfort, the trespassing and the awful smell. Ewwww. | ||
| − | + | I went back to the car somewhat disheartened, and drove around to the suggest satnav point which of course took me past the massive sign that said 'KNOX CITY TRANSFER STATION'. I stopped at a nearby gate - the closest I could get to the hash - and took a photo of the hashpoint, then with a heavy heart and a migraine returning, left once again. Failed to reach coordinates; no public access. | |
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Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Blue-skies.jpg | Blue skies | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Blue-skies.jpg | Blue skies | ||
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Heron.jpg | Heron keeping an eye out | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Heron.jpg | Heron keeping an eye out | ||
| + | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Chainlick-blockage.jpg | Blocked by chainlink, the geohasher's nemesis | ||
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry.jpg | It's a quarry | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry.jpg | It's a quarry | ||
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry-Warning.jpg | Quarry warning | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Quarry-Warning.jpg | Quarry warning | ||
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Hash-point.jpg | The hash point way in the distance | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Hash-point.jpg | The hash point way in the distance | ||
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Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Distance-at-footpath.jpg | Close as I got on foot | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Distance-at-footpath.jpg | Close as I got on foot | ||
Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Closest-point.jpg | This is as close as I got :o( | Image:2010-01-19 -37 145 Closest-point.jpg | This is as close as I got :o( | ||
Revision as of 06:16, 19 January 2010
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Location
In the middle of what appeared to be a reserve close to the Eastlink Freeway in Glen Waverley / Wantirna South.
Participants
Plans
Initially - head out on the bike first thing in the morning. Actuality - by car and foot.
Expedition
Kozz: This wasn't too far away from home, and initially I'd hoped to do an early morning cycle geohash but a combo of overnight rain and a migraine kept me in bed till the late morning. I decided to include the geohash with a trip to the chemist to find painkillers, theorising it wouldn't take too long.
Slotted the coords into the satnav and followed its instructions; in the middle of an area marked asa reserve on Google Maps. It looked as if it wanted me to drive the wrong direction up a motorway offramp to get there, so I used dead reckoning to find another entrance to what appeared to be a massive open green parkland. The decision to not follow the satnav would prove to be costly.
I found a road leading to a marked path leading to the corner of the open green area, and took a quick walk along the path - it's part of the Dandenong Creek Trail, one of a myriad of creek trails in Melbourne. To the right was a fenced off area - which transpired to be a quarry - and to the left there were fields, and from somewhere nearby I could hear heavy machinery at work. As I continued on I pondered why the parkland was fenced off by a 9 foot chainlink fence, but pressed on as the path swung south then east again vaguely towards the hashpoint.
About 1km in and still 350m from the hashpoint, I walked past a carpark next to a massive barn-like building. Stacked outside were about 30 mattresses, and...I realised I could smell the unmistakeable stench of decaying garbage. Lots of it.
The reason I could hear heavy machinery was because it was operating in a 'transfer station' - otherwise known as a town refuse dump, tip, or trash pile.
Yes that's right - the hash for today in Melbourne East is in the middle of a MASSIVE HEAP OF TRASH.
I toyed with the idea of doing the world's most comprehensive geotrash collection - I mean, c'mon, BONANZA - but gave up the idea pretty much immediately. Aside from the physical danger - who wants to be walking over piles of refuse - there is the discomfort, the trespassing and the awful smell. Ewwww.
I went back to the car somewhat disheartened, and drove around to the suggest satnav point which of course took me past the massive sign that said 'KNOX CITY TRANSFER STATION'. I stopped at a nearby gate - the closest I could get to the hash - and took a photo of the hashpoint, then with a heavy heart and a migraine returning, left once again. Failed to reach coordinates; no public access.
Photos
Woooo, gravel road
The bike path
History / linkage of the cycle trail
Blue skies
Heron keeping an eye out
Blocked by chainlink, the geohasher's nemesis
It's a quarry
Quarry warning
The hash point way in the distance
Close as I got on foot
This is as close as I got :o(
