2014-08-14 -43 172

Thu 14 Aug 2014 in -43,172: -43.6416402, 172.4863740 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Liffey Domain, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand

Participants

The Quaternary (talk) family geohashers

Plans

Today's geohash for our graticule is in the nearby town of Lincoln, and it looks to be in the middle of a small park or reserve. Too good an opportunity to miss.

Expedition

Having just taken possession of a Nissan Leaf, this was going to be her first Geohash outing. Powered overnight by the country's hydo-electric generators, this was going to less environmentally reckless than some of my other hashes! The round trip was 50 kilometre, so easily within range - there was 133km range on the power meter.

This was reasonbly straightforward hash, although with the trees around, a bit of vectoring off landmarks was required in order to have confidence that we were in the right spot.

And bonus - there was a pretty awesome slide about 20 metres away!

Tracklog

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  Lincoln is a town just south of Christchurch ...

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  ... and today's geohash was in the middle of Liffey Domain

Photos

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  Approaching the site - the geohash is in the clump of trees, just right of centre.

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  And here we are!

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  The geohash locator.

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  A great slide was nearby.

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  The latest addition to the family - the Nissan Leaf, 100% electic car.

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  At 50km for the round trip, this was the longest journey in the car to date. And I had managed to grow three trees on the efficiency meter!

Achievements

Quaternary earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2014-08-14.

Quaternary earned the Electric Vehicle Achievement by travelling to and from the Geohash in an electric vehicle (-43, 172) geohash on 2014-08-14.