2010-02-21 52 -7

Sun 21 Feb 2010 in Waterford, Ireland: 52.1965597, -7.1560514 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Participant

JRK

Expedition

Too tired to write a full entry, so just a bunch of quick comments:

• The day was sunny and warm, so I decided to go for a walk
• I took a bus from Waterford to Tramore (on the Atlantic coast) and decided to walk home, on the way visiting hash
• I was supposed to use the map and my wits + crazy survival skills to reach the point
• my wits + crazy survival skills made me go west instead of north and I realized that after 2 hours and after walking 10 km in wrong direction

• Did I start to cry and abandon the quest? Well, there was some crying but there was no way to abandon as I was in the middle of nowhere ;-)

• I got to the nearest village (it was Fenor) and found myself on the map again

from now on it was easy (if tiring)

• a lot of baby animals: pigs, lambs, horses, cuuute
• I found a mysterious Irish lake, excuse me - loch

• I wanted to visit Knockeen Dolmen, as it was around 1km from the hash point - http://www.megalithicireland.com/Knockeen%20Dolmen.htm, but it was guarded by two big and angry dogs, so I just made a picture from far away

• After finally geting home I was exhausted (I didn't expect it to take so long - 7 hours in total)
• Checking my route on google maps revealed I made 23 km - my new record :).

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  The strand in Tramore.

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  Same place, looking to the west.

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  Bog of Fenor.

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  I had your uncle for dinner yesterday.

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  Here you can hunt pigs, cows and if you're lucky you can even shoot a tractor!

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  Loch Bhaile, I'm really proud of this picture :).

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  Surprise, surprise, it's a field once again.

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  Walking here is rather hazardous.

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  Knockeen Dolmen. Damn you, dogs!

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  Nice decoration.

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  I will have your uncle for dinner tomorrow.