It's not a windmill... West End, Queensland, Australia
By Peppa on 05-Sep-24. Waypoint GCAXNGA

After necessarily braving the Christmas crowds at Chermside Shopping Centre, I rewarded myself with a few caches and some gentle exercise around West End. The aim was to clean up a few straggling caches in the area since my last visit. I had scoped this cache out during a river front run yesterday and decided to grab it today. Arriving at GZ, the coast was all clear nearby, so I went fishing. The container came away easy enough. With the log book signed, I tried to return it where I found it. However, as I was positioning it, the strong magnet stuck the container on in a more visible location. I could not budge it from here with my fishing pole, which ended up breaking off the tip for my efforts. So the container stayed where it was, slightly more visible, but perfectly safe at that height , and I continued on to the next cache on my list. There is a bit of family history with this structure. My grand uncle, Norma J Hurll had a business designing, building and selling gas plant equipment in Australia. He had a lot of involvement with the South Brisbane Gas Company, before his business was eventually bought by Boral. I had been tentatively eyeing this location for a cache myself - to complement my Newstead gasworks cache, " Cooking with Gas" . But I am glad there is a cache here and the CO has done a better more creative job with this hide, than I would have. Many thanks Peppa Pete#8.157

Way down in the deep south, in the heart of Canberra, we saw that this one was published.So we packed up the camper trailer, got Priscilla on the road for another road trip and gradually made our way north to the Sunny State to come and find this one. We used to live very close to this area and come to the markets on a Saturday. We would look at this old structure, admire it, ponder on its size and magnificence but until we read the description here I dont think we really knew what it was or what it had been. But now we understand. The structure was put here in order to house a geocache . Boy, that is some camouflage! !!Fortunately, Mr. Domsky had all the tools required to retrieve this one, and I think we provided some entertainment to the person who is living not too far away in their tent. Signed, and returned right up high once again. This is a fabulous urban Hide. Of course we add a FPThanks Peppa for the excuse to come on a road trip up to Brisbane. Domsky

Couldn't find it

Published

Coordinates changed from:S 27 28.767 E 153 0.167Coordinates changed to:S 27 28.760 E 153 0.163Distance from original: 47.7 feet or 14.5 meters.Whoops

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I'm a little confused by the instructions. Do we climb the windmill? Or not?Thanks Peppa and happy caching