2009-10-24 50 -1
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Contents
Location
Hythe, Southampton Water, just south of the ferry pier
Participants
Plans
Sermoa will take the ferry and be at the geohash by 4pm for the saturday meetup (if anyone else is thinking of coming?) For those not geohashing, look out for me at about 3:30pm on the webcam on hytheferry.co.uk. I'll stand just in front of those railings and wave an xkcd sign of some sort! Hopefully DavidMiller will be able to take a screenshot of me on camera! :D
By the way, the location appears to be in the Southampton Water, but i should be able to get fairly close!
Expedition
coming soon ...
Gallery
Entrance to the Hythe Ferry, Southampton side
My ticket for the ferry
Photo opportunity with the skipper
Having a cuddle with first mate Phillip!
First view of Hythe; the geohash is near the block of flats behind the pier
The long pier. The person with the brown jacket appears in Mapaholic's filmstrip! :)
This shows where i was in relation to the geohash
146 ft, about 45 metres away
Monica on the wall, with the hash point in the background
The housing area around today's geohash
A shot of Woolston bridge, where Southampton Water becomes the Itchen river
Those blocks of flats are between Woolston and Netley. Possibly Weston?
This is the sign that i hoped would show up on the Hythe Ferry webcam
I'm over the wall! I have to be very careful not to slip here
I saw lots of nice shells like these
Not going any further without a boat!
So i managed to get to 132 feet, about 40 metres from the geohash. Yay me!
The geohash is SOMEWHERE in this photo!
Monica, feeling a little bit cold and slightly wet from the spray
Ooops, i only noticed this after i'd come back over the wall!
A geohashing marker
I left the marker on a nearby flower pot
Hythe high street. It's tiny!
Entrance to the Hythe Ferry, Hythe side
This is approximately what the ferry webcam sees.
The old pier train that takes lazy passengers down the almost 600 metres long pier
Looking down the pier
Looking back towards the geohash and where i was this afternoon
Hythe Pier
Another view of Woolston bridge, taken from the edge of the pier
The other Hythe Ferry. It's smaller than the one i took.
A pretty sunset over Hythe
Goodbye Hythe! See you again some day! :)
