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Revision as of 00:02, 14 November 2022

Location

Just inside a building at an office building in Cremorne, Melbourne.

Participants

Expedition - Felix Dance

From a distance, this geohash looked extremely gettable. Close to the city, on a weekend, right at a car park for an office building just off a public street. Easy!

Very soon after it was first identified, Lachie shared his Google location, seemingly demonstrating that he was heading to the hash right then and there. I followed him for a while as he approached the hash and then started going about my day. I vaguely thought I would make the effort later on at some time if I had time.

The day took me to a relaxed hang at my friends' place in Coburg, eating pizza and drinking beer on the back verandah. When it was time to leave at about 9:30pm I thought, now's the time. I announced to the group that I was heading not for home but for Richmond. But then, as I was preparing to leave, the rain set in. Nah, I thought. Lachie's already got this one anyway. Can't be arsed.

At home, preparing for bed (I'd already got into my pajamas), our Bendigoing geohasher friend Tom started asking questions about whether or not this geohash had actually been got. The answer: no. Lachie had not been there despite his tease.

So this changed everything. I changed into my riding-in-the-rain clothes, alerted the group and got out my road bike (no mucking around on slow bikes).

Lachie was at a party in Yarraville but was leaving soon and was keen to come. John had a broken collarbone and made his apologies.

I rode through the rain down Moonee Ponds Creek where I met up with not only Lachie but Laura too, who'd been at the same party. We all rode on together through Docklands, up the busy Yarra Southgate waterfront, heaving with washed-out and not appropriately dressed partyers.

Some wangling got us through the city and into Richmond. A turn here past the long line of shivering Precinct Hotel hopefuls, a turn there around a booming house party, and we were at or near the hash.

We walked purposefully towards the hash-corner. No dice. Even after a few attempts the closest approach we could manage was 12m. From the satellite image it looked like we could theoretically get within 2m (and who knows how accurately the sat view represents the coordinates). But in the end we decided the point could not be reached.

We drank a beer each in the cold, investigated possibly breaking into the unleased office space (dubious), before finally parting ways with Laura and making our soggy way home, arriving just after midnight.

Tracklog

Photos

Geohash! @-37.8283,144.9968
Beers! @-37.8283,144.9968

Achievements

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+*[[User:Lachie|Lachie]]
+*[[User:LauraG|Laura]]
+== Expedition - Felix Dance ==
+From a distance, this geohash looked extremely gettable. Close to the city, on a weekend, right at a car park for an office building just off a public street. Easy!
+Very soon after it was first identified, Lachie shared his Google location, seemingly demonstrating that he was heading to the hash right then and there. I followed him for a while as he approached the hash and then started going about my day. I vaguely thought I would make the effort later on at some time if I had time.
+The day took me to a relaxed hang at my friends' place in Coburg, eating pizza and drinking beer on the back verandah. When it was time to leave at about 9:30pm I thought, now's the time. I announced to the group that I was heading not for home but for Richmond. But then, as I was preparing to leave, the rain set in. Nah, I thought. Lachie's already got this one anyway. Can't be arsed.
+At home, preparing for bed (I'd already got into my pajamas), our Bendigoing geohasher friend Tom started asking questions about whether or not this geohash had actually been got. The answer: no. Lachie had not been there despite his tease.
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+So this changed everything. I changed into my riding-in-the-rain clothes, alerted the group and got out my road bike (no mucking around on slow bikes).
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+Lachie was at a party in Yarraville but was leaving soon and was keen to come. [[User:Johnwrw|John]] had a broken collarbone and made his apologies.
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+I rode through the rain down Moonee Ponds Creek where I met up with not only Lachie but Laura too, who'd been at the same party. We all rode on together through Docklands, up the busy Yarra Southgate waterfront, heaving with washed-out and not appropriately dressed partyers.
+Some wangling got us through the city and into Richmond. A turn here past the long line of shivering Precinct Hotel hopefuls, a turn there around a booming house party, and we were at or near the hash.
+We walked purposefully towards the hash-corner. No dice. Even after a few attempts the closest approach we could manage was 12m. From the satellite image it looked like we could theoretically get within 2m (and who knows how accurately the sat view represents the coordinates). But in the end we decided the point could not be reached.
+We drank a beer each in the cold, investigated possibly breaking into the unleased office space (dubious), before finally parting ways with Laura and making our soggy way home, arriving just after midnight.
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