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== Expeditions ==
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== Expedition ==
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Very simple proposition here. I get off work, I ride out in the wrong direction - not east towards my home as usual but out west and into the industrial fringe.
  
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I dodge the odd truck and duck into a few service lanes, riding through some intersections I was involved in the construction of back in an earlier job.
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It gets dark, I have lights. The road deteriorates. No problem.
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One long, straight ride into the darkness.
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I get to the hash. It's off a narrow, potholed road near some trees. It's in a field so I jump the fence. The barb is tangled on the ground so it only takes a couple of steps over some basalt rocks.
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I march across the field. Maybe 100m. There's a crop of trees standing where the hash is. I have to go round.
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I pick the wrong way. I go all the way around in a big circle. Waste of time.
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The hash is inside the crop of trees so I go in. The ground is covered in weeds and spiky bushes. I push through until the distance gets to 1m. I stop, go backwards and forwards. When the reading is less than a metre I take a screenshot. Then other photos of where I am. Some mosquitoes bite me. I walk back to my bike.
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I ride on, taking a turnoff. I'm going to the station - Tarneit - to take the easy way home. The fields turn into new housing estates. Big signs advertising all the space. The bike path starts and stops, temporary fencing blocking the way.
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I climb over the bridge and arrive at the station. As I touch on the train comes, taking me home.
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[https://www.strava.com/activities/5588139118 Here] is my route.
  
 
== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 01 Bush.jpg|Hash bush
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 01a GPS.jpg|GPS Proof
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 02 Felix.jpg|Felix at the hash
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 03 Felix 2.jpg|More Felix
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 05 Trees.jpg|Night trees
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 09 Light sky.jpg|Melbourne-lit sky
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 10 Ground.jpg|Back from the hash
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File:Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 11 Bike.jpg|Waiting bike
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Latest revision as of 07:28, 11 July 2021

Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 09 Light sky.jpg
Wed 7 Jul 2021 in -37,144:
-37.8047330, 144.6850833
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Location

in a field on Melbourne's western urban fringe.

Participants

Expedition

Very simple proposition here. I get off work, I ride out in the wrong direction - not east towards my home as usual but out west and into the industrial fringe.

I dodge the odd truck and duck into a few service lanes, riding through some intersections I was involved in the construction of back in an earlier job.

It gets dark, I have lights. The road deteriorates. No problem.

One long, straight ride into the darkness.

I get to the hash. It's off a narrow, potholed road near some trees. It's in a field so I jump the fence. The barb is tangled on the ground so it only takes a couple of steps over some basalt rocks.

I march across the field. Maybe 100m. There's a crop of trees standing where the hash is. I have to go round.

I pick the wrong way. I go all the way around in a big circle. Waste of time.

The hash is inside the crop of trees so I go in. The ground is covered in weeds and spiky bushes. I push through until the distance gets to 1m. I stop, go backwards and forwards. When the reading is less than a metre I take a screenshot. Then other photos of where I am. Some mosquitoes bite me. I walk back to my bike.

I ride on, taking a turnoff. I'm going to the station - Tarneit - to take the easy way home. The fields turn into new housing estates. Big signs advertising all the space. The bike path starts and stops, temporary fencing blocking the way.

I climb over the bridge and arrive at the station. As I touch on the train comes, taking me home.

Here is my route.

Photos


Achievements

Bikegeohash.png
Felix Dance earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling 20 kms to and from the (-37, 144) geohash on 2021-07-07.
Geohash 2021-07-07 -38 144 11 Bike.jpg