User:MykaDragonBlue

43 / m / -37,145

This geohasher comes from Melbourne.

Regional Hashing : Victoria Australia

/me is interesting...

tzzzt... there i are

AKA my home graticule

Melbourne, Australia (specifically, Melbourne East )

currently living in Leeds, UK

myka also lives in #geohashing a lot, when a computer is available (so usually).

Where I (might) go Hashing

Melbourne East - my home graticule
Melbourne West - the other half of Melbourne
Bendigo - my hometown, just next door as well.

The Hashscot

Hashscot - possibly Fergus

I've designated a Hashscot (mascot), named possibly Fergus, to stand in for me in my hash report photos (at least on those occasions when I don't meet anyone). Its first hash was 2009-03-15 -36 144.

I have a Cunning Plan

I now have a car, and will try for some more interesting hash points as the time and opportunity presents itself. Anyone in the area should feel free to suggest a spontaneous adventure, and I can take passengers.

In fact, since I prefer to get out of the city on weekends, I will also go for some more interesting graticules as well.

List of things to have for the next time

This list will evolve as time progresses

• Sunglasses - because I don't need flies in my eyes while cycling.
• A GPS or WAP - because either could let me use computer-ated mapology

(now have wapness enabled, so there's something at least. problem is Google Maps Mobile has a 300m error margin when running off the towers)

(now have a borrowed older and not so accurate GPS, yay!)

• A way to get tracks off the GPS

• A car - because the trains in Melbourne... are not great. gots car
• a replacement the drink bottle holder on my bike.
• Another map than google to double-check addresses with. (I just need to bother)
• A camera, because my camera phone is only adequate, and far from good.
• A name for my hashscot. (possibly Fergus)
• more - because I forget to write things down.

BIG things to aim for

• GlobalHash (well duh)
• Endurance Geohashing
• Globetrotters Geohash
• A hash in -37, 150 (Green Cape Lighthouse, Australia) (peeron) ... cos ... ya'know... seriously.
• Hash every Graticule in Victoria, Australia
• Hash every State in Australia

Expeditions

Graticule	Report	Success?	Comments	Image
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-02-07_-37_145	Success	But silly to have tried.	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-02-14_-37_145	Success	Bike	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-02-21 -37 144	Failed - No Trespassing	Missed it by That Much!	...
Bendigo, Australia	2009-03-07 -36 144	Failed - No Trespassing	I think I may have found the only sign they had up.	...
Bendigo, Australia	2009-03-15 -36 144	Success	Virgin graticule	...
Shepparton, Australia	2009-03-22 -36 145	Failed - Blinded By Science	User Fail	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-04-10 -37 144	Failed	In the Ocean Fail	...
Ballarat, Australia and Hamilton, Australia	2009-04-18 -37 143 and 2009-04-18 -37 142	Success and Success	Double Success!	...
Bendigo, Australia	2009-05-03 -36 144	Success	Even though it was in a lake	...
Bendigo, Australia and St Arnaud, Australia	2009-05-30 -36 144 and 2009-05-30 -36 143	Fail - No Tresspassing and Success	Fail - Success!	...
Horsham, Australia and St Arnaud, Australia and Bendigo, Australia	2009-05-31 -36 142 and 2009-05-31 -36 143 and 2009-05-31 -36 144	Success and Success and Success	Triple Success!	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-06-13 -37 144	Success	Not far from the highway, but where did the trees go?	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-06-14 -37 144	Failed - No Trespassing	Up a big hill, and a steepie.	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-07-17 -37 144	Success - midnightish	~30 minutes after the points were available	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-08-23 -37 145	Success	some organisation fails beforehand, but a nice lunch afterwards.	...
Albury Wodonga, Australia	2009-09-07 -36 146	Success	a short detour off the Hume, by some non-existant railway tracks.	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-09-13 -37 145	Success	A pleasant ride along the Outer City Rail Trail, then my first actual meetup with people!	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-09-20 -37 144	Failed - No Trespassing	in a vacant but fenced in lot (or possibly the building next to it).	...
Traralgon, Australia	2009-09-25 -38 146	Failed - I is Mother Nature's Bitch	Just off a "road" in Tyers State Park, north of Morwell.	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-10-06 -37 145	Success - Meetup with Felix Dance and Pip.	Meetup with Felix Dance and Pip.	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-10-11 -37 144	Success	in the dark, 25 meters from the highway on the (slightly) longer route home.	...
Melbourne West, Australia	2009-10-12 -37 144	Success	4.somthing km from home	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-10-13 -37 145	Failed - no public access	I needed something to do and a pointless 110Km drive seemed like the thing	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-11-08 -37 144	Success	near Calder Park on the way back from Bendigo. boring McMansions	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2009-12-14 -37 145	Failed - some reason	camp creek, in the middle of the Black Saturday fire-zone.	...
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Bendigo, Australia	2010-03-07 -36 144	Success	In the Whipstick State Park. 5 minutes before midnight.	...
Melbourne East, Australia	2010-03-13 -37 145	Success	Barber Hill Track, near Three Bridges (Locality?). half way up a fire trail	...
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Bendigo, Australia	2010-04-18 -36 144	Success	On Doles Rd, kinda sorta near Lake Eppalock.	...
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Leeds, UK	2010-10-03 53 -1	Failed - Technology	In the West Wood, near Calverly	...
Leeds, UK	2010-10-06 53 -1	Success	At Horsforth Railway station, in the 'Woodlands Homecare' yard.	...
Leeds, UK	2010-11-07 53 -1	Success	Middleton park, south of Leeds	...
Engstlatt, Germany	2011-01-06 48 8	Success	Within Engstlatt, a village incorporated to Balingen - where I met an Ekorren	...
Zürich, Switzerland	2011-01-09 47 8	Success	In a forest area called Buckforen, near Schaffhausen, Switzerland. - where i met a crox	...
Leeds, UK	2011-01-27 53 -1	Success	In a field on Mount Pleasant Farm near Shelly, where a surprise Geohasher brought donuts.	...
Leeds, UK	2011-02-04 53 -1	Success	about 5km out of leeds city center, on a driveway off Green Hill Drive.	...
Valencia, Spain	2011-02-26 39 -0	Success	in one of a series of small plots used to grow various crops.	...
Sankt Gallen, Switzerland	2011-03-06 47 9	Success	in the snow next to klontalersee (dam) in a small set of hills	...

Achievements

those BIG Achievements

myka earned the Globetrotter achievement by visiting hashpoints on 2 continents.

General

mykaDragonBlue earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (-37, 145) geohash on 2009-02-14.

myka earned the Ambassador achievement by obtaining permission from a farmer working the paddock he wanted to access the (-36, 143) geohash on 2009-05-30.

myka earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (-37, 145) geohash on 2010-03-13.

amc and myka earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (53, -1) geohash on 2011-01-27 via Transpennine Express Leeds <-> Huddersfield; Bus Route 80/81/82 Huddersfield <-> Shelley.

amc and myka earned the Earliest geohasher achievement by arriving first at the (53, -1) geohash on 2011-01-27.

Multihashes

myka earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 3 hash points on 2009-05-31. It's a Triple Hash.

mykaDragonBlue earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 2 hash points on 2009-04-18. It's a Double Hash.

Minesweeper

mykaDragonBlue achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Melbourne East, Australia and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Gratuitous Ribbons

myka earned the No Water Geohash Achievement by reaching the hashpoint on dry land even though it was in the middle of a lake. (-36, 144) geohash on 2009-05-03.

myka earned the Phone wrangler award by figuring out how to turn off "that stupid shutter noise" on the bus to the (53, -1) geohash on 2011-01-27.

Consolation Prizes

myka earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (-37, 145) geohash on 2009-10-13.

myka earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (-37, 144) geohash on 2009-09-20.

mykaDragonBlue earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (-36, 145) geohash on 2009-03-22 due to not double checking when transcribing coordinates.

myka earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (-36, 144) geohash on 2009-03-07.

myka earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (-37, 144) geohash on 2009-02-21.

AU Regional Hashing...

It's a challenge to myself really

Regional Hashing : Australia!

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