Talk:Townsville, Australia

Allow me to propose a format for this page:

Section 1: Stuff about meet-ups and locations.; Add a new sub-section for each date about which you wish to comment.; I'll try and keep it clean, by moving old months to a sub-pages.
Section 2: ...I haven't worked out yet what should go here. Let's leave it open.

--Matty

Meet-Ups

Mon, 01-Dec-2008

Ingham: Map; Have I mentioned how I hate bastards who live in graticules that don't suck arse? Monday in Ingham the point is in a cane field, so could be accessed within at least about 50m (or closer, depending on if they've harvested, and how friendly the farmers are).

Ayr: Map; Ayr's point looks quite open and friendly, and possibly even quite simple to get to. It looks like you just go to Woodstock, follow Webb Rd, then along Dingo Park Rd until it turns to dirt, and then keep on driving. No worries.

Townsville: Map; Bizarrely, our point for Monday appears to be near an airstrip in the middle of nowhere. Alien landing site, maybe?

Fri, 5-Dec-2008

Charters Towers

Map

I'm going to Charters Towers today! It's too good to turn up!
(If I had a copilot to share fuel and boredom with, I'd also do Clark River. Two in one day!) –Matty 21:27, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

⇒ 2008-12-05 -20 146 –Matty 04:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Sat, 6-Dec-2008

Townsville: Map; Out in the bush near Dotswood again. Google tells me it's a 95km/90 minute trip each way (from my place), not including the 500m bush walk from the road.

Ayr

Map

Look at that, right on the road, and only about 100km away.

If I hadn't burned all that fuel yesterday going to Charters Towers, I'd consider this one. But alas, purse strings and all. –Matty 23:29, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Charters Towers: Map; Accessible from the highway, but 215km away. Apparently that intersection has a name: Campaspe.

Mon, 8-Dec-2008

Map

What appears to be a public road just off the highway. Quite easy to get to.

If you check the satellite image, which tends to be more accurate, it's actually right on the road. Anyone up for a trip? (Probably not my car, I've driven that way too recently.) –Matty 12:02, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Tue, 9-Dec-2008

Ayr: Map; In a cane field (?) just off the highway at Guthalungra, about 2 hours from Townsville.

Wed, 10-Dec-2008

Map

Right on the hill behind Lavarack. There's one of those foot paths right to the point. If only we knew an AJ who could get us onto the base...

Fri, 12-Dec-2008

Map

Someone with a bit of adventure in their soul could attempt this one. It's near Keelbottom Creek, out along Hervey's Range Development Road. According to the satellite images, there's a paved road to some sort of building in a clearing *, which gets you within 500m of the point. Probably private property, but also probably worth a look, if you're heading out that way. Google says about 55-60km from my place.

* Very well-made road, with a decent bridge over the creek; helipad; clearing with building and roads. Feels quite military, or possibly a mine.

Sat, 13-Dec-2008

Townsville: Map; The longitude is right, but we'd need a boat to get that far north. Anyone got a boat?

Charters Towers

Map

Looks like a lovely hike, about a click off the highway out near Ravenswood. There's even a bit of a dry creekbed to follow, if you prefer the shade.

If I had a GPS unit, some fuel, and wasn't in the process of moving house, I'd give it a go. –Matty

Abergowrie

Map

Here you go YWE, looks like Abergowrie might be accessible, as long as you're up for a little rainforest hike. (No fear, it looks like no more of a challenge than our Giru trip.)

Again, if someone with a GPS didn't mind taking me for a longish drive, and I wasn't moving house... *sigh* –Matty

Miscellaneous

Hi Twistie. Do I know you? --Matty

Hey, I dunno. I'm a first year IT student at JCU. I have a feeling I have heard your name before but I'm just not sure. -- Twistie

Page Structure

I think it's good having the Saturday map links on the main page, and a brief description for the current/past ones. However, as Simon suggested, I'm quite happy for ephemeral discussions (about attempting hashes and stuff) to live here on the discussion page. If anyone else wants to update the Current Meetup Location section early on Saturdays, you're most welcome. Also, when we start running out of upcoming Saturdays, feel free to chuck in another months' worth of links. --Matty