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| − | + | I decided to aim for the first midnight of the day, on Sunday night/Monday morning. I was sitting at home at 23:45 and suddenly realised that I was going to have go soon if I was going to make it. I grabbed my camera and GPS, quickly programmed in the co-ordinates, and set off, on foot. Reaching the estate containing the geohash was no problem at all, and I arrive with 4 minutes to spare before midnight. The footpath where the geohash was located was a path off the corner of a road, heading towards a playing field, and went along the front of a row of houses. Clearly the ideal place to be hanging around for a few minutes, on your own, with a camera, at midnight! | |
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| + | As I walked along the path, I noticed that one house had a bewildering array of LEDs and/or other lights in its upstairs window, one of which was quite definitely red when I first saw it but turned green as I approached. I was absolutely convinced that this whole setup was mounted on something which turned to follow me as I went. My already low level of paranoia as to the situation I was in suddenly increased markedly as I became convinced that somebody inside one of the houses was monitoring and recording my every move via some hi-tec, possibly home-brew, motion detection security camera system. Doubtless I was being paranoid about nothing, and I fully intend to return after work on Monday evening, in daylight, to see exactly what the collection of LEDs actually is, but it's fair to say that I was definitely uncomfortable. | ||
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| + | Of course, I then had to walk backwards and forwards a few times in order to zero in on the hash, which I really didn't want to have to have do, given the situation I was in. As I finally zeroed in on the hashpoint, it turned out that it was right outside the only house with lights on its front window and doorway, which again, I really didn't want. I was also still in view of the multi-LED house. My paranoia was now in overdrive! | ||
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| + | I left a chalk marker on the path whilst waiting for midnight to tick around, and then got my camera out to take the necessary proof, and immediately discovered that it had a completely flat battery! Therefore I had to fall back to my phone camera, which really is completely useless in the dark, as you'll see from the photos. It's sadly impossible to make out the co-ordinates on the photo of my GPS, but you can see that the time is midnight. The top-right number (15 feet) is the GPS accuracy and the middle-left (13 feet) is the distance to the hashpoint. The bottom-right value of 52 feet is the elevation. The GPS tracklog is included below for extra proof. Two more incredibly bad photos were taken, one of the chalk marker I left on the path, and one of the "view" from the hashpoint, which consisted of an out-of-focus shot of a dark path with some street lights in the distance. | ||
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| + | I went to leave the area and head home, and almost immediately heard a front door opening behind me. I didn't stop to find out who was coming out of their house! | ||
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| + | As hinted at above, I will be returning to the hashpoint in daylight to get a better look at the surroundings, and convince myself that I had absolutely no reason whatsoever to be as paranoid as I felt whilst at the hashpoint. | ||
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Revision as of 23:42, 30 July 2017
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Location
On a public footpath just off Dunstan Street in Ely, and approximately 350m from PaintedJaguar's house, making him eligible for a Couch Potato honourable mention.
Participants
Plans
This is the first hashpoint in Ely that PaintedJaguar has noticed since moving to Ely approximately a year ago. It's sufficiently close to his house, and at the other side of the weekend, that, at the time of writing (Friday 28th July) there are no specific plans. A midnight geohash is tempting, but we'll see what happens on the day.
Expedition
I decided to aim for the first midnight of the day, on Sunday night/Monday morning. I was sitting at home at 23:45 and suddenly realised that I was going to have go soon if I was going to make it. I grabbed my camera and GPS, quickly programmed in the co-ordinates, and set off, on foot. Reaching the estate containing the geohash was no problem at all, and I arrive with 4 minutes to spare before midnight. The footpath where the geohash was located was a path off the corner of a road, heading towards a playing field, and went along the front of a row of houses. Clearly the ideal place to be hanging around for a few minutes, on your own, with a camera, at midnight!
As I walked along the path, I noticed that one house had a bewildering array of LEDs and/or other lights in its upstairs window, one of which was quite definitely red when I first saw it but turned green as I approached. I was absolutely convinced that this whole setup was mounted on something which turned to follow me as I went. My already low level of paranoia as to the situation I was in suddenly increased markedly as I became convinced that somebody inside one of the houses was monitoring and recording my every move via some hi-tec, possibly home-brew, motion detection security camera system. Doubtless I was being paranoid about nothing, and I fully intend to return after work on Monday evening, in daylight, to see exactly what the collection of LEDs actually is, but it's fair to say that I was definitely uncomfortable.
Of course, I then had to walk backwards and forwards a few times in order to zero in on the hash, which I really didn't want to have to have do, given the situation I was in. As I finally zeroed in on the hashpoint, it turned out that it was right outside the only house with lights on its front window and doorway, which again, I really didn't want. I was also still in view of the multi-LED house. My paranoia was now in overdrive!
I left a chalk marker on the path whilst waiting for midnight to tick around, and then got my camera out to take the necessary proof, and immediately discovered that it had a completely flat battery! Therefore I had to fall back to my phone camera, which really is completely useless in the dark, as you'll see from the photos. It's sadly impossible to make out the co-ordinates on the photo of my GPS, but you can see that the time is midnight. The top-right number (15 feet) is the GPS accuracy and the middle-left (13 feet) is the distance to the hashpoint. The bottom-right value of 52 feet is the elevation. The GPS tracklog is included below for extra proof. Two more incredibly bad photos were taken, one of the chalk marker I left on the path, and one of the "view" from the hashpoint, which consisted of an out-of-focus shot of a dark path with some street lights in the distance.
I went to leave the area and head home, and almost immediately heard a front door opening behind me. I didn't stop to find out who was coming out of their house!
As hinted at above, I will be returning to the hashpoint in daylight to get a better look at the surroundings, and convince myself that I had absolutely no reason whatsoever to be as paranoid as I felt whilst at the hashpoint.
