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Fri 29 May 2020 in Christchurch:
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Location

Hutchinson Reserve, Akaroa, New Zealand

Participants

The Quaternary (talk) family geohashers

Plans

I awoke this morning near the small town of Akaroa, and upon checking the daily geohash, found that there was a very close geohash to be hashed in a public reserve called Hutchinson Reserve - perfect! The first Geohash for me since the Dark Ages.

Firstly, I must say, a big thanks to all those involved with porting the Geohashing website to the new site.

Expedition

We'd left it to end of the day to do the geohash. This was a bit unfortunate, as the light was pretty dim in the bush at this stage. Hutchinson Reserve is a pretty small pocket of native bush, with no formal walking tracks, so we had to tread carefully (so as not to step on any baby plants) in order to find the geohash. We found a few odd things en route, including a long forgotten wheelbarrow. GPS wasn't so great under the trees, but we circled around for a while, to make sure we covered the general area pretty thoroughly!

We left a small hashmarker behind to mark what we took as the hashpoint.

There was a geocache also hidden in this reserve, namely, https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC7GRYN_hutchinson-reserve-akaroa, so we did that too for good measure.

It's good to have finally knocked off a hash after the Dark Ages - it's so good to be back!


Tracklog


Photos

Achievements

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Quaternary earned the Electric Vehicle Achievement
by travelling to and from the Geohash in an electric vehicle (-43, 172) geohash on 2020-05-29.
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