Difference between revisions of "2016-07-08 53 6"

Revision as of 20:29, 8 July 2016

Location

In a forest in Wijnjewoude, Friesland.

Participants

Expedition

I had been planning to visit some interesting places in Friesland province for a while now, so when this hashpoint came up I decided that today would be a good day to head north. I first had a look at the [| Wouda Pumping Station], which is a large steam-powered installation and World Heritage Site that used to keep Friesland dry. It can still do this, but nowadays it's purely used as backup for other, more powerful pumping stations. Nevertheless, very interesting and worth a visit if you're in the area.

By the time I left it had started raining, so I decided to postpone the hash and wait for it to clear up, so I visited some museums in Heerenveen and Drachten and had lunch. The weather seemed to be improving in the afternoon, so I headed towards the village of Wijnjewoude and parked my car at the entrance to the forest. The hash wash still about 1 km away, so it was still a bit of a walk, in a forest that was rather soggy in places with all the rain of the past few hours. A sign at the entrace actually explained that this bit of forest is very important for the water supply, since the precipitation that falls here drains into an aquifer that is used for drinking water production.

As I got closer to the hash I had to walk a bit off the footpath and found myself walking along a small drainage ditch that wasn't on my GPS map. After about 175m I discovered that the hash was on the other side of the ditch! It's interesting to know that the national sport of Friesland is something called [| Fierljeppen], which involves jumping over water using a long pole. However, I've never done this myself and didn't have a suitable pole with me either, so I decided to go back and walk around the ditch. I found the spot, took some pictures, tried to avoid the mosquitoes again, and went back and on my way to visit the Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden (also pretty interesting).

Photos

Achievements

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<!-- If you did not specify these parameters in the template, please substitute appropriate values for IMAGE, LAT, LON, and DATE (YYYY-MM-DD format)
-[[Image:{{{image|IMAGE}}}|thumb|left]]
-Remove this section if you don't want an image at the top (left) of your report.   You should remove the "Image:" or "File:"
-tag from your image file name, and replace the all upper-case word IMAGE in the above line.
-And DON'T FORGET to add your expedition and the best photo you took to the gallery on the Main Page! We'd love to read your report, but that means we first have to discover it! :)
--->
 {{meetup graticule
 | lat=53
@@ Line 15: / Line 5: @@
 }}
-<!-- edit as necessary -->
 __NOTOC__
 == Location ==
-<!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
+In a forest in Wijnjewoude, Friesland.
 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+[[User:FelixTheCat|FelixTheCat]] ([[User talk:FelixTheCat|talk]])
--->
-== Plans ==
+== Expedition ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
+I had been planning to visit some interesting places in Friesland province for a while now, so when this hashpoint came up I decided that today would be a good day to head north. I first had a look at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir.D.F._Woudagemaal | Wouda Pumping Station]], which is a large steam-powered installation and World Heritage Site that used to keep Friesland dry. It can still do this, but nowadays it's purely used as backup for other, more powerful pumping stations. Nevertheless, very interesting and worth a visit if you're in the area.
-== Expedition ==
+By the time I left it had started raining, so I decided to postpone the hash and wait for it to clear up, so I visited some museums in Heerenveen and Drachten and had lunch. The weather seemed to be improving in the afternoon, so I headed towards the village of Wijnjewoude and parked my car at the entrance to the forest. The hash wash still about 1 km away, so it was still a bit of a walk, in a forest that was rather soggy in places with all the rain of the past few hours. A sign at the entrace actually explained that this bit of forest is very important for the water supply, since the precipitation that falls here drains into an aquifer that is used for drinking water production.
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
-== Tracklog ==
+As I got closer to the hash I had to walk a bit off the footpath and found myself walking along a small drainage ditch that wasn't on my GPS map. After about 175m I discovered that the hash was on the other side of the ditch! It's interesting to know that the national sport of Friesland is something called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierljeppen | Fierljeppen]], which involves jumping over water using a long pole. However, I've never done this myself and didn't have a suitable pole with me either, so I decided to go back and walk around the ditch. I found the spot, took some pictures, tried to avoid the mosquitoes again, and went back and on my way to visit the Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden (also pretty interesting).
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
 == Photos ==


Fri 8 Jul 2016 in 53,6: 53.0772587, 6.2192315 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox