2009-08-30 -36 146

Sun 30 Aug 2009 in -36,146: -36.0775160, 146.3233754 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

The first attempt. Fi and Kieran headed out to find the hash point. The map placed it just off a road in a pine plantation.

• 2009-08-30--36-146-1-car.JPG Turning off the sealed road, onto mud tracks, on a wet day, in a two wheel drive with bugger all clearance, what could go wrong?
• Image:2009-08-30--36-146-2-sign.JPG The street sign points us to the Morgan Creek pine plantation.
• 2009-08-30--36-146-3-logging.JPG This plantation was logged after parts were damaged in the 2009 bushfires.
• 2009-08-30--36-146-4-logging.JPG We ascended quite a hieght in pursuit of the hash point
• 2009-08-30--36-146-5-car-log.JPG There had been some tree fall in the recent storms

Eventually we realised we'd taken a wrong turn. Unfortunately there was no where to turn around safely, so we kept driving. After a 35km round trip we ended up were we started.

Fi didn't want to go again, so realising that Acajou's farm was nearby we went for coffee and a chat. Acajou introduced us tosome newborn lambs:

• 2009-08-30--36-146-12-sheep.JPG Last night the sheep gave birth
• 2009-08-30--36-146-13-fi-sheep.JPG So Acajou thrust one in Fi's arms
• 2009-08-30--36-146-11-kieran-sheep.JPG And one in Kierans.

As it happened Acajou was up for a fresh attempt at the Hash point, so back up the hill Acajou and Kieran went. Going in the right direction this time, we were eventually forced to walk.

• Http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Image:2009-08-30--36-146-6-car-stopped.JPG The tree that stopped us
• 2009-08-30--36-146-7-birti-road.JPG So we walked to Birti road
• 2009-08-30--36-146-9-kieran.JPG And gave up at this point, over that road side are brambles, and thirty metres or so into those brambles was the hash point
• 2009-08-30--36-146-10-acajou.JPG And here is Acajou :-)