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Location
This hash is on the bush block to the west of the Embassy of China in Canberra, Australia.
Participants
Plans
I intended to drop past on the way home from work.
Expedition
1PE
I went there on the way home from work. It had been a wet and overcast day and the gloomy evening light illuminated the site only a little as I turned up the concrete access road (visible on overhead imagery.) At the end of this older road, I was confronted with a construction fence topped with razor wire and a sign saying that this was now a site for (part of) the Embassy of China in Australia, the main campus of which is across the road to the east of this site.
I could hear construction work going on inside the fence, and there were some lights on in the partially completed building. I could not get to the hash site but got right to the security fence, within about 25 metres of the hash site.
I took a picture beside the sign and gate.
I do not know whether I was on the designated actual site of the land assigned to the Embassy, but presumably they build just INSIDE the boundary. so, as I walked right up to the gate, I presume that I stepped onto the embassy land. AND, as an embassy is deemed to be the land of the country involved, I guess that I stepped onto "Chinese soil". So, I'll claim to have travelled to another country to go to this hash.
However, I will not be applying for the Ambassador_achievement.
But, see also the now-proposed Foreign achievement.
Tracklog
Photos
At the sign and fence.
Razor wire and fence.
Achievements
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