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== Location ==

[[Murray Bridge, Australia]].In a paddock to the south of the Monarto zoo, near Ferries-McDonald Conservation Park. Some lovely examples of the natural scrubland and wildlife of the area could be easily found.

== People ==

[[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] at about 3pm, [[User:Kate|Kate]] had suggested that she might come, but maybe it was lucky that she didn't.

==That was 'The Day That Was'==

Well, it was looking like a bad weekend for Adelaide Geohashing, with not that many viable options. I was resigning myself to the concept of not hashing for the second weekend in a row (how would I live?) when [[User:Kate|Kate]] mentioned that she was planning to hit the Murray Bridge hash. It looked to me like a 600m walk , so into the car I jumped, and accompanied by the joyful sounds of some good old-fashioned Aussie cricket commentary proceeded to the hashpoint. Unfortunately, there was a gate where there wasn't supposed to be a gate (google maps has been lying to me...again), so I parked the car and proceeded the remaining 1.8kms on foot.

<gallery>
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO01.jpg|They named the road after me?
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO02.jpg|Not on the hash side of the road, fortunately.
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO03.jpg|A beautiful day for being outside.
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO04.jpg|There's not supposed to be a gate here! (I love this kind of gate mechanism, though...)
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A nice walk down a nice little track, with a couple of pauses to examine the local wildlife, and I was there. Suddenly, a rather spontaneous compulsion came over me...


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Image:-35 139 11102008 UO33.jpg|If a hasher made this cairn, they missed by 200m or so...
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO16.jpg|My GPS at the point with a council notification I picked up on the roadside.
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO23.jpg|Cheesy grin!
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO07.jpg|I was wearing innapropriate clothes...
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO20.jpg|So I removed them (yay for censorship)
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO31.jpg|Amused onlookers.
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO32.jpg|Marker left at the scene of the crime
Image:-35 139 11102008 UO37.jpg|One of many wildlife specimens
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The whole business was made worse by the prickles, and by the fact that the hash point was visible for numerous kilometers in every direction, but since most of the nearby population are sheep, I'm not too worried. There goes any hope of me ever running for parliament, anyway.

What would possess me to do such an odd thing? Well, I can think of no explanation except that I come from [[Adelaide, Australia|Adelaide]], the city with balls.

So, who else feels like joining in the geoflashing fun?


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