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Location

Next to a housing commission block of flats in Fitzroy.

Plans

This point, probably accessible, in inner Melbourne was bound to attract attention. It was situated within a few hundred metres of the workplaces of no less than 3 Melbourne geohashers - yet sadly none of them was actually attending their workplaces on that Tuesday. The rest of us would have to step in.

Participants

Expedition 1: John

John made it there.

Expedition 2: KT, Steve and Laura

KT walked. Steve and Laura rode.

Expedition 3: Lachie and Ed

Lachie and Ed made it there.

Ed: I finished work for the day in Carlton, cycled a very short distance past the Melbourne Museum and thereafter found myself quite easily at the hash point. It turned out Lachie had independently arrived there around the same time as me. Then we went to the pub.

Expedition 4: Felix Dance

I took the train home from work near Cranbourne at 5:15, got off at Parliament Station and rode to the hash - about 7 minutes.

I did the hash-dance to get a good reading, satisfying myself with 1.3m (it was close to a wall) and tried to take a photo.

Unfortunately, my camera shut down right at that moment and it took about 5 minutes to turn it on again, which I needed to find out where the pub we were going to was.

At last, the phone worked and I navigated myself to the pub. I locked up my bike, ran in, looked around, couldn't see anyone, ran upstairs to the accommodation, and ran outside to my bike. I looked back at my phone. Everyone was on Google Maps, right inside. I looked closer at the pub and I could see there was a beer garden out the back, so I looked through the fence and saw my buddies.

So I ran back in, waited 5 mins to order a pot of peanut butter porter, and met everyone outside. We talked briefly about creating life from donated genetic material and Eratosthenes of Cyrene's measurements of the planet's circumference before I had to rush off again to attend a meeting on Zoom at home.