2009-03-23 52 0

Location

At the side of a house in Hauxton village, just south of Cambridge.

Participants

Benjw
Kate (who sat in the car and refused to be part of this)

Plans

Benjw had intended this to be a walk geohash of about 9km each way from his house in Cambridge, but in the end was taken out to dinner, so made a quick stop by car on the way to that instead.

Expedition

We drove out from Cambridge in the early evening, and since I knew Hauxton village quite well we had no trouble locating the house where the hash had fallen. Kate decided that she would rather just sit in the car, so I got out and knocked on the door, ready to ask if I could photograph some random stranger's back garden.

However, nobody was at home, so after waiting some time just to be sure, I poked my head around the side of the house and took a photo of the general area of the hashpoint. I walked up to the gate to the back garden, at which point the GPS read 3.65m to go. I didn't want to open the gate and charge into their back garden without permission, so I didn't go any further, but I noticed when I got back to the car that the GPS accuracy was hovering around 4m. So... did I get the geohash or not?

Pondering that question, we drove on to an excellent Thai restaurant, where I was treated to a superb meal because it wasn't my birthday. All expeditions should end like this.