2010-02-17 -37 144

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Wed 17 Feb 2010 in -37,144: -37.7439557, 144.9891985 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Intersection Of Bell st and Gilbert Rd, Coburg.

Participants

• myka
• buckleyj

Plans

• myka : I'll ride out sometime after work. It's about 3.5Km from my place by road, according to the google.

--- myka left home about 8pm... --- and got back around 9:30pm.

Expedition

left home at about 8pm, and took a ride up the Merri Creek trail, which leads from just down the road up to Bell street, at which point it would be a short ride up the hill to the hash intersection. possibly Fergus came along, riding in my pannier

I use the Merri creek trail heading south almost every day, riding to work and back, but haven't really gone any further north, so that was a new thing for me. It's an attractive enough trail, if you don't look at all the trash along the edges of the creek. Not the nicest bike path in Melbourne, by far, but not bad. Also a much better surface than many.

The hash itself was rather dull, being an intersection on Bell street that I've driven through many many times, and not having any particularly interesting things to do nearby at that hour. I discovered that the point, according to my GPS was actually on the pedestrian crossing rather than in the middle of the intersection as google suggested, making it much easier to stand around for a moment or two to get an adequate (though in the end, terrible) shot of my GPS (see below) almost directly on the point.

Being bored, I played with my camera a bit, bought some dinner at a "sandwich" chain store just by the road, had half of it, then headed down the hill to a service station to see if i could find a geoSquishee (thanks to Kozz's suggestion). Unfortunately, it was an express variant or that particular servo, so no squisheed refreshments for me. (If I'd thought about it, I passed a different servo which definitely sells Slushies going both ways, where the Merri creek trail crosses Bell street)

Finally , since it was now darkish, I headed back up to the hash intersection, left a marker at the closest traffic light pole to the hash, and continued home.

Although the point itself was rather dull, riding the short trip home in the dark (with bikelights, but along an often canopied trail) was nice and fun.

Photos

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  in the middle of an intersection, with 3 lanes of Westbound traffic.