Geodashing Dashpoint Log
2014-03-16 20:30:42 UTC
GDCB-MOIT
Player: Haraldpoiss
Team: FinEst Dashers
GDCB-MOIT is near Kõrkküla, Estonia.
> Date, Points, TeamPoints, Dashpoint, Country, State, Lat, Lon, Distance
2014-03-16, 3, 3, GDCB-MOIT, Estonia, , 58.2417, 22.2235, 0
Number of previous hunts by Haraldpoiss: 50
It's already 4th dashpoint that has recently fallen to near Tatterselja village. This time it was a bit northward from it. Looks like a popular place... The bus dropped me to village Hirmuste 2km from point. Name of the village can be translated as 'Scary Place' but actually there's nothing scary in it. Except maybe a burned-down farm house and a cut-through power cable that had been 'tied' back together above the road.
There was few degrees minus outside and an alternative weather. It was occasionally sunny and occasionally snowing heavily and very windy. The road that took to the point was named as the road of "Suur Tõll", who used to be the legendary hero of Saaremaa island. Don't know why, but maybe he's known to have walked on that road then? It would have been possible to drive to 120m from the point. The point was in forest. After visiting it, I took a walk in nearby forest. It's a quiet place there. When walking back to the bus (4km) there were only 2 cars passing by me. Of which one stopped and asked if i need a lift. There are really so many kind people in the small villages of Saaremaa. Or maybe they just don't want strangers to sneak around and wanna take them away asap? Who knows.
While there had been one more passenger in the bus when getting there, then on the way back I had the private vehicle with a driver just for me. And the driver first of all made me to knock off the snow from my boots before letting me in and then asked me to sit to the very first seat to not make all his bus dirty. And then he started talking to me and talked all 30min back to town. He told me about better life that there had been during Soviet time and that all bus traffic is fading away these days because of everybody having a car. Which seems to be true actually, at least for this line. He also told me about places where he had been traveling or been on vacation recently and his experiences, which was quite interesting. So a good reason to take bus instead of car, is to meet such nice people. On arrival he let me off in front of his home, because there were no other passengers and his home is nearer to my home than the bus station.
following the big guy...
not the house of a witch, but nest box of a bird
Roads can be dangerous. R.I.P.
