User:Munky

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Revision as of 22:38, 12 June 2010 by imported>Munky (Expeditions)

'ow do. I'm new. Some sort of caged geek from the Exeter graticule.

It's been brought to my attention that the whole of the southwest is virginal, and this cannot stand! Mission: Turn everything from Bristol down green. http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/United_Kingdom#Map

Expeditions

2010-06-12 50 -4 - Merry cycling down the lanes of Devon, 45 miles round trip with drag-alongs, geese, bells and escaped sheep.

2010-06-04 50 -3 - Ha! Got it! Water hash off the Devon coast.

2010-05-01 50 -3 - Buy boat (more Sevylor Pointer goodness), float vest and paddle. Set out with a hash that looks doable... then get out into ye open sea and be Menaced By Manatees (or just realise that it was well over a mile - and get a good old dose of common sense as an offshore breeze gets up). Tail duly turned but that's not going to spoil the fun, because there's nothing so fine as simply messing around in boats.

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Gear

Mmm, lovely tasty gear.

GPS: Garmin Etrex Venture Cx running my homebrew Garmin export from OpenStreetMap (which is awesome and you should love).

Camera: Some random Canon point'n'shoot flashed with CHDK, which I'll occasionally use for kite aerial photography too. Add an Aquapac waterproof housing for water hashes. Is it too much to hope for KAPhash? You never know...

Bikes: Manyfold. Anyone want to buy a penny farthing?

Kayak: Another Sevylor Pointer! This is all your fault, internet! Simmering desire to have a kayak ("it's the bike of the sea!") with a tiny flat and similar-scale budget meant that I'd never drowned in a clumsy Instructable or gone shopping... but hey, what's this all over the Vancouver graticule? And the local kayak shop had one on display. Roll vs Willpower or go shopping.

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Munky earned the Water geohash achievement
by reaching the (50, -3) geohash on 2010-06-04 by standard issue blow-up kayak.


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Munky earned the Prize poultry Consolation Prize
by chickening out on the (50, -3) geohash on 2010-05-01.
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