2013-02-09 -37 144

Sat 9 Feb 2013 in -37,144: -37.7752334, 144.9595604 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a street in Brunswick

Participants

• Felix Dance
• Felix Dance, Miriam and Tom

Expedition 1

I was pretty amazed when I discovered this one - so rarely do hashes appear in gettable locations near the inner city. Mainly, however, I was amused by the irony that Lachie had gone all the way to Gordon, 120kms to the west of Melbourne, to get a geohash and wouldn't be back until the following day - missing the hash 150m from his house. Practically a couch-potato!

I rode my bike in the arvo with my GPS and camera, up along the Upfield train line bike path. Pretty much getting there straight away I did the geohash dance to get the right coordinates, took some photos, then rode to my friends Tom and Miriam's house nearby.

Expedition 2

I arrived at Tom and Miriam's place and told them about the hash. They already knew and were planning to go themselves, so after a beer and a snack, we all walked together across the train lines. Again doing the geohash dance (must be bad GPS reception around there), we took some photos, talked to a curious business owner next to the hash, and walked back. Tom and I tried to rouse another nearby sharehouse (Lachie's place), but everyone was out. I rode off to Blackburn for dinner with my girlfriend.

Here is the route I took, including with Tom and Miriam. Total distance to hash from my place: 3.8kms. Total walk distance from Tom and Miriam's: 380m.

Photos

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  Felix at the hash

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  GPS Proof

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  Miriam finding the hash

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  Tom looks intently at phone

Achievements

Tom and Miriam earned the Walk geohash Achievement by reaching the (-37, 144) geohash on 2013-02-09 on foot, travelling a distance of 760m.

Felix Dance earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling 51kms to and from the (-37, 144) geohash on 2013-02-09.