Melbourne East, Australia

Melbourne

The majority of Melbourne's urban area is evenly divided between two graticules, with the CBD and inner suburbs lying in the west graticule. It is so much cooler (as in temperature, and as in awesomeness) than Sydney could ever hope (or want) to be. It is also cooler (as in great; fine; excellent; socially adept) than Canberra, though so is nearly everything (except maybe Adelaide). Plus Melbourne has good coffee.

Use of dates

Melbourne is 14 hours ahead of NYC so it's acceptable to use yesterday's date.

Graticule links

Melbourne South East - The north west of this graticule is still within the Melbourne area, or within easy distance of a lot of people.

Local geohashers

Arran will go if it's near, let him know.
Felix Dance plans to check the 4 closest graticules and go to the one most accessible by bike-train
Joanna may be down from time to time, and would love to come along.
mykaDragonBlue will go when he determines that the time is good and appropriate, or often if it's within riding distance ~~(and not to dang hot)~~, or just if someone suggests he meets them there, or he's out traveling anyway. myka is often available in #geohashing
StephenEdmonds will try for any that fall in the metro area
Stevage Comes to some of them if they're interesting

See Melbourne Geohashers for a complete list.

Summary of 2009 Expeditions

Aug Sunday 2009-08-23 -37 145 - Success
Aug Wednesday 2009-08-05 -37 145 - Success
Aug Saturday 2009-08-01 -37 145 - Success
July Wednesday 2009-07-29 -37 145 - Success
July Friday 2009-07-17 -37 144 - Success - midnightish ~30 minutes after the points were available
July Wednesday 2009-07-08 -38 145 - Success
June Sunday 2009-06-14 -37 144 - Failed - No Trespassing
June Saturday 2009-06-13 -37 144 - Success
June Monday 2009-06-08 -37 144 - Failed
May Saturday 2009-05-30 -37 145 - Failed
May Thursday 2009-05-28 -37 144 - Success
May Tuesday 2009-05-26 -37 145 - Failed - Private Property
May Monday 2009-05-25 -37 144 - Success
May Sunday 2009-05-24 -37 145 - Success
May Saturday 2009-05-02 -37 145 - Success
Apr Friday 2009-04-10 -37 144 - Failed - In the ocean
Feb Saturday 2009-02-21 -37 144 - Missed it by That Much! (No Trespassing)
Feb Saturday 2009-02-14 -37 145 - Success
Jan Saturday 2009-01-10 -37 145 - Success

Summary of 2008 Expeditions

Nov Saturday 2008-11-01 -37 145 - Success
Oct Saturday 2008-10-18 -38 145 - Success
Sept Saturday 2008-09-06 -37 145 - Success
June Friday 2008-06-27 -37 145 - Success
June Thursday 2008-06-24 -37 144 - Success
June Saturday 2008-06-21 -37 145 - Success: Three groups went and all managed to miss each other.
June Friday 2008-06-20 -37 145 - Success

Geohashes considered

May Sunday 2008-05-25 -37 145 -- Ha! Right in the middle of a cemetery. That would have been cool.

St. Arnaud	Bendigo	Shepparton	Albury Wodonga
Ballarat	Melbourne West	Melbourne East	Maffra
Colac	Geelong	Berwick	Moe
Melbourne, Australia