Windmills - So Many about, in so many styles Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Team GraMon on 19-Jul-10. Waypoint GA1095

Museum of Vehicle Evolution, Shepparton, Victoria

Snapped this beauty on a visit to the MOVE in 2019.

Logging for the Cacheopoly Game.

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This is one of the many Windmills located in the Toowoomba showgrounds

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Travelled through Jerilderie recently and stopped for lunch at the park where the Steel Wings windmill is located.

Great cache

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James0116

I saw this windmill on the side of the road whilst driving from Bendigo to Coburg South.

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I stopped by the side of the road to take a photograph of a curving road and sugarcane. The sun was setting giving a nice light in the golden hour. The windmill was not the subject of my original photo but took a few snaps of the cattle as well. Thanks for cache Team GraMon

ANDOVER
TASMANIA

I saw this windmill when driving through Andover in southern Tasmania.

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ECCLESTONE ROAD
TASMANIA

On my way to get a GC cache GC9TR3R Four Winds I noticed this windmill in the paddock.

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BOULIA
QUEENSLAND

I found this windmill in Boulia on my last visit there.

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S41 23.771 E146 18.135 WEST KENTISH ROAD SHEFFIELD TASMANIA

I noticed this windmill whilst driving past.

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S41 23.786 E146 18.151 SHEFFIELD ROAD TASMANIA

I was in the area after caches when I noticed this windmill.

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S42 28.470 E147 19.411 COLEBROOK ROAD TASMANIA

I was on my way home after an appointment in Hobart and caching of course when I noticed this windmill on the side of the road north of Colebrook.

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S42 26.302 E147 09.039 MELTON MOWBRAY TASMANIA

This windmill was seen 5 km from Melton Mowbray when I stopped to photograph the river for another cache. Ah well may as well have two for the price of one.

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S41 14.204 E146 47.032 HOLWELL ROAD TASMANIA

I was travelling along Holwell Road towards the end of a day after caches when I saw this windmill.

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S41 04.700 E145 52.478 BURNIE TASMANIA

I was driving along Three Mile Road after another caches I spotted s windmill.

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S41 12.118 E146 25.082 WESLEY VALE TASMANIA

Driving to Devonport I saw this second windmill near Wesley Vale.

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S41 12.030 E146 24.941 WESLEY VALE TASMANIA

Driving to Devonport I saw this windmill near Wesley Vale.

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S41 09.651 E147 27.599 GOLCONDA ROAD LIETINNA TASMANIA

I noticed this windmill when i was in the area about a month ago so today when after caches I made the stop to get the photo.

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S41 47.560 E146 41.053 HIGHLAND LAKES ROAD TASMANIA

Spending a day caching I noticed this windmill just off the Highland Lakes Road just south of Breona near the Great Lake Central Highlands Tasmania.

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S41 29.606 E147 06.866 WINDMILL TRAVELLERS REST

On a caching trip to Perth Tasmania when I noticed this small windmill out of the window. Travellers Rest is just west of Launceston Tasmania.

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S41 37.610 E147 08.833

This old wooden windmill us on Woolmers Estate near Longford Tasmania. It is in better condition to the steel windmill remains which are nearby.

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I found this windmill in the Lions Prairie Park, Prairie QLD.

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S20 50.483 E144 12.053

I found this COMET windmill in Grey Street, Hughenden QLD.

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S22 23.417 E143 02.477

I found this windmill in Elderslie Street, Winton QLD, near the Waltzing Maltilda Centre.

Winton is a town in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is 177 kilometres northwest of Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset. Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas.

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S30 58.168 E135 44.971

Photographed this windmill at Glendambo SA when touring the "Big Island"

Glendambo is a town and locality in South Australia located on the Stuart Highway about 592 kilometres from Adelaide. The town was constituted on 13 May 1982 and was derived from the Glendambo Homestead.

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There are so many windmills around Penong.
It is wonderful to drive through there and see them being restored
S 31° 55.555 E 133° 00.555
Thankd for the locationless cache

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Found many around our town. This was the closest. Thanks Team GraMon

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Talk about slack. I took this photo back in 2014 specifically for this cache. Finally got around to logging it.
Found these windmills while waiting to cross the Murray on the ferry at Wellington at S35 19.751 E139 23.283.
Have also included a photo I took at about the same time of our next door neighbours windmill in their yard. Won't give the cords for that one though.
Thanks.

Gilgandra rural museum Comet brand

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This whopper of a windmill sits just inside the entrance to the Toowoomba Queensland showgrounds. The photo doesn't do the size of the windmill any justice but it is gigantic. TFTC

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This old wooden windmill is our all time favourite windmill. Still in excellent condition. Woolmers Estate at Longford Tasmania. TFTC

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We found this icon of the outback at the rear of the Illfracombe Museum

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After living in Darwin for 40 years I decided it was time to move so we packed up and drove to Tweed Heads NSW to look for a new place. On the way we drove through Pine Creek and I caught a glimpse of their windmill and then when we stopped at Renner Springs overnight we woke up to the beautiful sunrise behind the windmill. After we passed over the border into QLD and about an hour past Camooweal there was another lonely windmill on the side of the road. Funny thing is just recently my sister and I were doing some research for a fascinating travelling cache where you drive from point A (in this case Darwin) to point B (Canberra) and the coordinates are windmills where you have to answer questions to work out the next windmills coordinates. I didnt even remember that I had taken the Pine Creek photo until I saw it now.
TFTL

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Well it’s definitely a windmill but a tiny sized one.
Muggle Hubby was enjoying watching it spin around while we were visiting the Tasmanian Copper and Metal Art Gallery at Carrick in Tasmania.
Thanks for the cache GraMon. This gallery was well worth visiting.

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You can hardly miss this windmill towering over the Waltzing Matilda Centre here in Winton.

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Having great fun finding all these locationless caches. Haven't found a brand on any yet and lots are not working anymore. TFTLC

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And the search continues and so do the finds in Croydon.

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Getting towards the end of them now. And yes some of them are within the distance limit set by TeamGraMon.

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And the search continues and so do the finds in Croydon.

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Another windmill in Croydon. TFTLC

Travelling round Queensland enjoying the sun and warmth. TFTC

Today we are camped on the Archer Creek in Queensland. The first thing that I noticed as we arrived was the windmill. Probably because I had spent hours last night making a list of locationless caches that interest me, and was incredibly sad to find this cache and not to have photographed the windmill in Watsonville in the centre of the road. So I'm no missing this one. I have seen so many over the years we have travelled so will be trying to hunt out photos. TFTLC Team GraMon

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We saw.this lovely old windmill with interesting adornment on our way through Thoona en route to the GC OZGeomuster in. Morisset. There was a lovely little building behind it also. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to stop and explore, but would love to go back there one day to see their Wheely Bin races that they hold annually. Thanks for the Locationless Team GraMon

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This photo was taken on a trip to Cameron Corner. We had left Broken Hill and a massive Dust Storm was moving through. The dust gave the photo an eerie look. Later that day we were caught in the middle of the dust storm at Sturt N.P.

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The DaFiChNi's came across a windmill monument at Karoonda in South Australia (complete with a nasty nano cache! GC1CDBR). The catchphrase at the base of the windmill reads... 'No Wind, No Water, No Life'. Thanks Team GraMon for organising this locationless cache.

These 2 windmills are on a farming property at Oertel road Kalbar Queensland. S27 57.540 E152 39.487
TFTC

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A 'southern cross' windmill as an advertisement outside storage units at Legana in northern Tasmania.. thanks..!!

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Windmill at the Penny Royal touristy complex located in Launceston in Northern Tasmania. Not sure if this anything like the real deal or if it ever operational or just a pretty touristy construct to suck the paying customers in.. thanks..!!

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A brilliant old timber slat windmill located at the Brickendon Estate at Longford in northern Tasmania. I know nothing of windmills, but I reckon this one is pretty old and special.. thanks..!!

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We came across this beaut big Comet windmill at the Toowoomba Showgrounds on a recent visit to the Camping and Outdoor Exhibition.

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Back up in Coffs Harbour after my father has had an op he seems to be taking a while to recover from after 10 days in ICU with probably another 5 to go. It was time to return north and take over mother caring duties from my sister who was flying back to New Zealand this morning. Luckily dad seemed a lot better today, so I left mum there with dad for a few hours to run some errands they needed, shopping, and a couple of bonus caches before picking her up for the trip back to Woolgoolga.

Wanted to try a couple of GA caches hidden in 2013 for the Summer Scavenge hunt, so here is a different one. Not your average Aussie windmill but a Dutch replica at a Country Comfort motel at the Edelweiss Restaurant. This has been a landmark driving into Coffs Harbour for decades, and used to mark where you met the town, though now development has extended a lot further south.

A trip across to Nowra and I had my eyes open for a windmill. I spotted a few along the way but chose this little cutie. I think I want one. It was spotted just across the road from the GC cache GC4XZ5J

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This one is languishing in my back yard as it happens! It's fallen over once too often and is a bit bent I'm afraid but it stills creaks in a strong wind as all good ones do

Mrs G beside a windmill on the Greek island of Patmos

Found this windmill on dusk at a sporting facility.

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Seeka came along with me snap a photo of this windmill at the edge of Echuca.
(Seeka is the mascot for the 2016 summer GCA game... http://geocaching.com.au/dragonzone/game/scavenger2016)

Thanks Team GraMon for keeping this locationless cache active.

Found this on a late drive today with Caughtatwork and mummy.

Farm, Bullsbrook WA

This beauty caught my eye today! coords on photograph

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This faux-mill no longer pumps water, it is the store sign for Total Eden Water Services in Richmond. However once it was a Southern Cross genuine pumper. Hard to count the blades as it was blowing a steady breeze today!

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Snapped this windmill in a park in Rouse Hill, Don't see many in the suburbs

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On the way to Shepparton we stopped at these windmills , a Southern Cross Windmill and a more decorative Dutch windmill.

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We went for a drive through the McLaren Vale wine region today, and stumbled upon this rusty old windmill very close to the road. It's also right next to a creek that had water flowing through it today.

Thanks Team GraMon.

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I drive past this modern take on the windmill often on the way to the shops.

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We stopped in Coolongoolook for lunch today and MummyPenny spotted this Comet windmill across the road. It's just a landmark now, not actually pumping water, but it's otherwise functional. Thanks Team GraMon

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Stop to grab this guy i past it once a day
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#GA1133 - 10:40; Stopped to grab a cache at this windmill while on a caching run with Sol de lune and toy hunters, so grabbed a snap to qualify for this locationless as well. Two for one! Happy with that TFTC Team GraMon

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Spotted this windmill while yeah your guessed it I was out caching

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Found this wind mill along the Great Western Highway near Hazelbrook, no longer working but in great nick.

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A windmill as viewed through my GPS.

Callington Mill,Oatlands, Tasmania.

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Dutch windmill, Shepparton.

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South of Shepparton, NSW.

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So here we were calmly driving to the shops via the 'back way' due to one of the more popular routes being blocked off, when we heard STOP!! coming from the back seat. It appeared that Samboo Bear our housemate and travelling companion had spotted something.

"what, why, huh!" was our response, but we pulled up anyway outside the Tally Valley Golf Course.

"There is a windmill over there", Samboo explained, "Weren't you looking for a windmill?"

"Er yes, I think so", we replied.

"Well, just let me grab Seeka, get out your phone and take a picture", we were instructed.

"But I don't think its a real windmill, it doesn't seem to be working"

Samboo came back with the response, "Doesn't matter, its still a windmill and you can log it as part of the Summer caching games"

So we took the photo; Samboo and doggy friend climbed back into the car; and we proceeded to the shops. Now what's the GA number for the "pushy bear" locationless, 'cause I've got the perfect example to log.

Thanks for the cache.

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Found as part of the Summer Scavenger Series.
Didn't realise this was here, but as I had windmills on my mind, a pic was taken.
Can't make out the name.

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This windmill is actually a house , it's been in diamond creek for years and was built by a Dutchman who was homesick.

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Did it

So I've been stressing a little bit trying to find a Windmill for the summer scav when it suddenly clicked to me there was one on the property next door to work. DOH! so after work I wandered over to the closest point and got my picture. It even looked to be active still as I watched it move around and do things in the wind.

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I saw this impressive specimen while driving into Shepparton

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Discovered this windmill on a secluded back road at Sutton Forest. Nothing fancy just the run of the norm type mill. Logging for the Summer Scavenger Hunt find.

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I drive past this windmill every weekday. It's right near my work. This is at the Cordina Chicken Hatchery, in the middle of suburbia. Seeka came along for the ride. Found as part of the Summer Scavenger Series.

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This windmill can be found in a suburb south of Perth.

Found this great old windmill as I was wondering around the outskirts of Geelong

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I logged this one on a trip back from Melbourne in 2015 - part of the Great Aussie Icon series. I have always loved windmills and we used to play 'first one to see a windmill' on long trips with the kids - first to yell 'Windmill" was the winner. Cool cache - thanks

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Out on a scavenger hunt today and snapped this one.

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Called in as we were heading north to the event and took a snap of me and the windmill.

We stopped here at Callington Mill in Oatlands to do a history cache and were able to make it a double with this locationless.
This is a good attraction for tourist passing through. TFTC

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Located just off the Bay Trail - in Westgate Park, Port Melbourne.
This Varcoe "Oil Bath" windmill was spotted whilst caching in the area.
As there are no information signs here, we have no idea of why it is placed in this park.
Read the history of Varcoe Windmills here.

Further investigation reveals that this is actually a working windmill.
The windmill is used to shift water from the freshwater lake storage to ponds and billabongs around the park.

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Type: SOUTHERN CROSS
Location: 307 Tizzana Road, Ebenezer NSW

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I was reading out the scavenges available this fortnight over dinner and Daddy Long Legs exclaimed "There's a windmill near the Railway Reserve!" which I'd totally forgotten about thinking the nearest one I know of is freeway-side near Yarragon. I was freed from dishes duty tonight so I could venture to the other side of town (oh so far) and snag a picture and coordinates for this locationless. I don't think there'll be a brand I can provide you as it's most likely a DIY production, but it's fully functional in that it spins! Love it. TFTC Team GraMon
Go Phoenix

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Seeka and I visited this Melbourne landmark for our windmill.

It said you could back date so I'm taking it at its word.

I mulini di Orciatico GC23MDW

It is a beautiful old ruined windmill in Tuscany.
It was a stinking hot day and my sister and I had been foraging around in the undergrowth for ages with no luck. Then geoteen did her usual trick of reaching casually down and picking up the cache saying "Is this what you're looking for?" Grrrrrrr

If you're every in tuscany, its worth the detour.

Thanks for this cache listing which is being used as part of the Summer Scavenger Series.

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Names Windmill Gardens this windmill is probably not exactly what you expect when you say windmill in Australia, but a windmill nonetheless. A photo taken from the road nearby, but the co-ordinates are of the windmill itself.
Thanks for this cache listing which is being used as part of the Summer Scavenger Series.

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Found with shaydex this evening... a nice stroll with the hum of the freeway above.. see his photo you can make out the lights on the tree

The Old Mill in South Perth next to the large tree lit up for the holidays. Found with TR on our way home. Has some nice history and worth a visit yourself if in the area

Summer Scavenger series for 2016 brings me to the city of Brisbane this day and a trip up to Wickham Terrace for The Old Windmill on this site.
Here are photos of Seeka and I at the Windmill today...a nice security guard took the photo of me standing in front of the Windmill.
This was my first stop today after getting the Bus to Roma street station and walking up Turbot St and through King Edward Park to get to The Old Windmill.
Brisbane’s oldest building has many facets to its sometimes dark and brutal history - built by convicts in the late 1820s, it is not just the longest surviving convict building but also the oldest windmill in existence in Australia.At first seen as a folly due its ill-conceived often windless location, it morphed into a symbol of dread and torture as penal Commandant Patrick Logan used convicts to work a treadmill he had constructed to keep the arms turning in lieu of wind. As a punishment they would be set to work in 8kg leg irons for fourteen hours straight and in the burning sun to keep the maize grinding. Wearing only rough leather hats for protection they had to grasp an overhead rail using both hands and walk the 23cm wide steps continuously and if they missed a beat they’d be hit on the shins with the next step as it rose. The only way of getting off early was to collapse.
Significantly it was here in 1934 that the first television signals in the southern hemisphere were transmitted and this pioneering TV broadcasting continued up until World War II. refernce from Must do Brisbane.
Thank you for bringing me to a piece of History in my own City TeamGramon

These two windmilss are different sizes and are located on Petersens Road Coolabunia in the South Burnett Qld. They are both made by Southern Cross which when manufactured where in a foundary in toowoomba but the factory has now relocated down the range to Withcott on the Highway. TFTL TEAM GRAMON

Type: SOUTHERN CROSS
Location: 70 Donaldson Road, Kangaroo Ground.

I was taking a short cut on my way home today and looking into the distance searching for windmills when I came across this windmill that was nearly on the side on the road. I was very surprised.

Found this windmill outside the local garden centre. TFTL

Comet D Pattern Windmill - Jandowae, QLD

The windmill still works & will pump water from 24 metres below at the rate of 1135 - 1325 litres per hour, in a stiff breeze.

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