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Location

7 locations (the past week) - on Google Maps[1]
15.06.2011 Northwest of Tarome
16.06.2011 Northeast of Harrisville
17.06.2011 Southeast of Marburg
18.06.2011 East of Wivenhoe Dam
19.06.2011 Southwest of Esk
20.06.2011 South of Esk
21.06.2011 South of Esk

Participants

Plans

Wish I'd realised this was live already! Have been writing offline. I'll speed it up a bit.


As June 21 was my birthday (and wanting to do something a bit different with my day), I had a short planning session the evening before and determined that it was probably feasible to do the past weeks geohash's in one day. Or at least a drive by. (I like driving and with an MX-5 at my disposal, what could be better than doing my first geohash!)

Tuesday morning, and, surprisingly, the location for the 21st was very close to the one for the 20th. It looked like the full weeks worth was on the cards and - bonus - in sequential order! The location for the 21st also appeared to be on a road and accessible, making it the only location that wasn't firmly on private property or a (insert time frame here) walk away from the nearest road.

Expedition

A much later start than I had anticipated but fuelled up and coffee in hand, I was out of the servo at Kenmore just after 10:30am. I had decided to make some headway early, so took the Ipswich Motorway rather than follow the GPS directions via Mt Crosby Road.

It took just over an hour to make the first location (for Wednesday 15.06.11) near Tarome. Mobile access was obviously very limited as Geohash Droid wouldn't produce a satellite image even after 5 minutes of patiently waiting. Decided that the location data would have to do, along with a couple of photo's in the general direction of the geohash.

I had seen a few roadwork sites enroute to location 1 and went through another 6 or 7 enroute to locations 2 and 3 - end of financial year spending anyone? The nearest point to location 2 was easy to find being in a new subdivision. 3 proved a bit more challenging and the MX-5’s lack of 4WD and adequate ground clearance

Tracklog

Photos

Achievements