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Thu 26 Jun 2014 in -43,172:
-43.5626235, 172.7541547
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Location

Sumner Beach, Christchurch, New Zealand

Participants

The Quaternary (talk) family geohashers

Plans

Checking out Eupeodes this morning, and "w'oh - this looks interesting!" The hashpoint was on the foreshore, albeit on the very shifting sands of the exit of our city's estuary.

A quick check of the tides indicated low tide to be 09:41. Let's get going, and get this one under the belt before work!


Expedition

Just in case any wading was in order, I put some swimming togs under my trousers, in case I needed to strip down to them.

And yes, it was necessary to put my bare toes, feet, calves, thighs, and (at times) hips, into the freezing waters of the Pacific Ocean in the middle of winter near the shortest day of the year.

But it was you, my dear fellow geohasher reader, that was egging me on. And I knew that if it was you who was faced with this delimma, that you would not let the fear of cold water or dangerous rips stop you from getting to our ultimate goal! (And I knew that many of you had suffered much, much worse.)


Tracklog


Photos



Achievements

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Quaternary earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (-43, 172) geohash on 2014-06-26.
2014 06 26 -43 172 01 Shag rock - 2011-style.JPG