2008-07-19 49 -123

Sat 19 Jul 2008 in 49,-123: 49.1094031, -123.8876392 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In the middle of some trees near Nanaimo.

Geohash Status

FAILED.

Details

thepiguy and srs0 decided to make a day trip out to Nanaimo in what turned out to be a failed attempt.

We left UBC at around 9:30 and biked to the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. Along the way we were interrupted by some sort of festival along Spanish banks, and got lost in Stanley park (the sea wall apparently is one way for bycicles!) We arrived at the ferry terminal at 12:47 only to discover they stopped selling tickets for the 12:55 ferry at 12:45. We had some lunch and caught the 2:30 boat instead.

Once we got to Nanaimo we traveled down the highway towards Duke Point. Based on google, our plan was to start on the highway, follow a tree line for a short distance and then make our way into the bush. Unfortunately, the tree line turned out to be a rather sizable gorge and we were so behind schedule (because of the missed ferry) that we only had time to take a few pictures and rush to catch our ferry home. We were around 500m at the closest point, and had we had time, probably could have found a way around.

Although we failed to reach the location we still had a fun time! We ended up biking around 100km, ate some deliciouses food and learned a valuable lesson about our beloved ferry system.