2010-05-22 49 -123

This is the Vancouver graticule's official Mouseover Day celebration for 2010. Everyone is welcome, even if you happen to have just discovered geohashing today. Please sign up for a carpool!

Sat 22 May 2010 in 49,-123: 49.4635260, -123.7646015 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Some 600m off shore in Sechelt. Google maps shows a possible beach access at the closest land approach. However, the closest land approach (Shorncliffe Ave. and Boulevard) is a trail closed to cars. There's a big public parking lot a few blocks away, at Ocean and Sunshine Coast Hwy. Gear dropoff at Ocean and Boulevard then parking may be the best option. The beach at Ocean is an actual beach in street view, where over at Shorncliffe it looks more rocky and may or may not be beach-like.

Good place for a beach celebration, though. Picnic tables and everything.

Participants

• Juventas will be in the area.
• Robyn will attempt to reach the Mouseover Day coordinates, with Amazingly Enough.
• Rhonda is up for it
• Elbie can bring her kayak.
• user:thepiguy has a trick up his sleeve
• yangman wants to just go and hangout on the beach
• srs0 is hoping to be able to join in, but doesn't know his plans for sure yet.
  • Unfortunately, srs0 won't be able to make it. He just got home from the festivities for geohashing day, and his attending mouseover day was dependent upon him finishing his course assignment that he has to complete by Saturday afternoon. He was intending to upon arriving home, but is now far too tired to do so, as he would have to get up in less than 3.5 hours from now to make the UBC meetup time tomorrow. The assignment may very well take the full 3.5 hours, and therefore srs0 regrets to say it, but he won't be able to make the mouseover day celebrations. He apologizes profusely and wishes all the others the best! -Srs0 09:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Plans

The original plan (preserved on the talk page) was very simple: meet at the 9:20 Ferry to Gibsons, drive to Sechelt, take a motley collection of watercraft out to the point, then party on the beach. We knew in advance that we would be out a bit late on the Geohashing Day expedition so we went for the 9:20 ferry instead of the first one at 7:20.

You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice. It apparently applies to Mouseover Day as well.

Expedition

Catching A Ferry

In order to ensure a robust hash, participants were distributed, without advance notice among three different Horseshoe Bay-Langdale sailings.

09:20

Sleep deprivation does tricky things with your memory, leading Robyn to believe simultaneously that she had agreed to pick up Elbie at the corner of Agronomy Road and Thunderbird road and that she had agreed to pick her up at the same place as 2010-02-07 49 -123

There was a red Honda Accord with it's car alarm blaring as it drove onto the ferry. It was a bit annoying to those of us who it drove by, but I can only imagine how annoying it was to the people directly in front or behind it in the steel belly of the ferry.

The Trip Home

I am so tired. I will write up these hashes tomorrow.

Quotes

While driving out to UBC to pick up Elbie, Robyn commented "We haven't had any hashpoints in the endowment lands. The Algorithm really should give us a point here." Thinking of how to encourage The Algorithm to give us pleasing hashpoints, Wade replied "Does one make sacrifices to The Algorithm? I mean, other than getting up at 6:25 in the morning after going to bed at 1:30 after a 5 km hike the night before?"

"It was everything I hoped and dreamed it would be." --- Xore, describing the sticky buns at the ferry terminal.

"Geohashing: where the logic stops." --- Unknown, for obvious reasons.

"Geohashing: where the logic stops, throws it into reverse, and backs over a cliff." --- Xore, responding to the above quote.