2021-06-27 -38 144

Location

300m out to sea at Dromana.

Participants

Expedition

Felix Dance

This one was up there on the awesomeness scale.

Stevage first noticed the gettability of this hash and posted on our little GChats Geohashing group asking, "Who's up for a swim at Dromana tomorrow?"

It turned out later that Stevage was just goading us on and wasn't going to join us on his suggested epic journey. But it was too late - Lachie and I were in.

I spent the late evening up to 11pm the night before our hash sorting out my bike - cleaning the chain, pumping up the tyres etc. Lachie spent it inviting his sister Laura to come along with us. Both our efforts were successful and we started off at 7:45 the next morning.

Lachie had met me at my house and we rode off together through the city. At Gardiners Creek bike path we were joined by Laura and together explored the myriad bushy bike paths of the eastern suburbs. Urban Forest Reserve, the sub-SkyRail Djerring Trail (a new favourite) and then the EastLink bike path, of which sections I showed off as having been involved in the construction when I was a graduate engineer 14 years ago.

Also of note along our route were various nostalgia hashes. The Urban Forest Reserve hash with the same crew (2020-05-08 -37 145), the Springvale Necroplis "Geosurprise" hash (2013-01-07 -37 145) and my old "We Built This City" geohash from when a geohash landed on a bridge I was working on as that same grad engineer (2012-06-18 -38 145). Lachie and Laura were loudly not impressed with my handiwork as I pointed it all out.

Soon the EastLink bike path gave way to the Dandenong Creek bike path following the Patterson Lakes estuary where many mariner estates displayed a tropical look reminiscent of a northern Queensland style. A sharp left took us onto the brand-spanking new Franskton SkyRail bike path - a similar style to the Djerring Trail - which impressed us greatly.

Soon we were onto the roads, travelling from Frankston to Dromana, detouring only to take the scenic route along the Esplanade at Mt Martha which offered great views of the Bay. We stopped at the beach most adjacent to the hash and prepared ourselves for the plunge.