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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
In a fallow field late at dusk east of Benalla, Victoria.
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In a fallow field at dusk east of Benalla, Victoria.
  
 
== Participants ==
 
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== Expedition ==
 
== Expedition ==
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Another successful Benalla-adjacent geohash. Very straight-forward mostly - I saw the hash when I woke up, knew I'd be going for it all day at work at the precast factory, rode my bike home and then, getting on my *other* bike - I have a crappy old road bike and a fancy new road bike - I hurtled off down the road towards the hash.
  
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As I was leaving the motel and heading along next to the airport I soon realised that the warm, dusky evening had produced an absolute brick wall worth of tiny insects in the air. It was like heavy rain. I didn't bring along my work's safety glasses so I just had to squeeze my eyes shut, look at the ground, and glance up occasionally through my fingers to see if I was about to crash into something.
  
[ Here] is the route I took.
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I thought it might ease up as I got into different terrain or later as the sun set. But no, it got worse. After half an hour or so I turned off the familiar road east out of town onto a quiet dirt road south. And the bugs got even more shockingly thick! I had to stop every couple of hundred metres to scoop the stinging sensation off my eyeballs.
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The sunset was very dramatic, from what little of it I could bear to see of it. After crossing a few creeks (even more bugs!) I arrived at the hashpoint. A fallow field of tall grass on rolling hills overlooking a valley. Very picturesque.
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I vaulted the barbed-wire fence and tramped 100m over to the hash. A few photos and some admiring of the dregs of the sun and I was back to my bike, the fence proving somewhat more difficult on the return.
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I rode back along the dirt road to retrace my steps. A hoony teen passed me stirring up dust but honestly it was a relief as it seemed to scatter the insects.
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I returned home a bit before 9pm. Although the bugs had abated somewhat eventually I still had to spend some time scraping the corners of my eyes free of carcases.
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[https://goo.gl/maps/MA3ACNrdWzTBC7FY8 Here] is the route I took.
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 01 Road in.jpg|Dirt road to the hash
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 02 Cows.jpg|Sunset cows
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 03 Insects.jpg|So many bugs!
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 04 Grass.jpg|Long grass
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 09 GPS.jpg|GPS Proof
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 05 Sunset.jpg|Hash dusk
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 06 Felix.jpg|Me at the hash
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 07 Panorama.jpg|Hashorama
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File:Geohash 2020-11-20 -36 146 08 Dust.jpg|Dusty road
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</gallery>
  
 
== Achievements ==
 
== Achievements ==

Latest revision as of 08:45, 20 November 2020

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Location

In a fallow field at dusk east of Benalla, Victoria.

Participants

Expedition

Another successful Benalla-adjacent geohash. Very straight-forward mostly - I saw the hash when I woke up, knew I'd be going for it all day at work at the precast factory, rode my bike home and then, getting on my *other* bike - I have a crappy old road bike and a fancy new road bike - I hurtled off down the road towards the hash.

As I was leaving the motel and heading along next to the airport I soon realised that the warm, dusky evening had produced an absolute brick wall worth of tiny insects in the air. It was like heavy rain. I didn't bring along my work's safety glasses so I just had to squeeze my eyes shut, look at the ground, and glance up occasionally through my fingers to see if I was about to crash into something.

I thought it might ease up as I got into different terrain or later as the sun set. But no, it got worse. After half an hour or so I turned off the familiar road east out of town onto a quiet dirt road south. And the bugs got even more shockingly thick! I had to stop every couple of hundred metres to scoop the stinging sensation off my eyeballs.

The sunset was very dramatic, from what little of it I could bear to see of it. After crossing a few creeks (even more bugs!) I arrived at the hashpoint. A fallow field of tall grass on rolling hills overlooking a valley. Very picturesque.

I vaulted the barbed-wire fence and tramped 100m over to the hash. A few photos and some admiring of the dregs of the sun and I was back to my bike, the fence proving somewhat more difficult on the return.

I rode back along the dirt road to retrace my steps. A hoony teen passed me stirring up dust but honestly it was a relief as it seemed to scatter the insects.

I returned home a bit before 9pm. Although the bugs had abated somewhat eventually I still had to spend some time scraping the corners of my eyes free of carcases.

Here is the route I took.

Photos

Achievements

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Felix earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling 28.9 kms to and from the (-36, 146) geohash on 2020-11-18.