Blowing in the wind Middle Creek Rail, Victoria, Australia
By Whitejaegar on 01-May-08. Waypoint GC1BT0X

Archived - Moved from area.

Caching in and around Ararat today with the 4 & 6 year old geokids. A nice quick find. Love turbines. Sort of relaxing just watching them spin. Many thanks for the cache

The wind turbines were awesome to watch, shame we couldn't get too close! Cool camo for the cache, cheers!

Detoured off the main highway to check out the wind turbines. Found the lookout which wasn't very good and saw that it wasn't much further to get this cache! My 350th cache! Found with ryanofoz

I found this awesome cache with Ostara74 while we were on holiday in the area. What a brilliant hide! We enjoyed the hunt for this cache a lot. The local area was very interesting and a great place to visit. Thank you to whitejaegar for their efforts of making and maintaining this cache. Thanks also for bringing us to this amazing spot. I love that caching brings me to new and usually relatively unknown places that I would never even know about, let alone find, if I wasn’t hunting for a cache. This very cool cache was my 1524th find.

Found together with Pathfinder24 on a sunny day.
After a third night of camping in the Grampians it was unfortunately already time to head home. On our way we stopped a few places to look for caches. Pathfinder24 chose to do a deviation from the Highway to give us a better scenic view so we came along this road and made a short stop here. The cache was quickly located and we got the log signed before we were on our way again.
Thanks for the cache whitejaegar!

Decided to do a day trip to Stawell to watch a friend's horse run in the trots up there. Of course, one can't simply do a day trip without a cache stop or few. After the race, we returned to Beaufort the long way around so we could find this cache and admire the wind turbines from a different angle to what we normally see when going up and down the highway. TFTC whitejaegar

Find # 1924 @ 1735 H

Found with Tyred n Cranky.

Taking Tyred n Cranky's Magna for a run today. After grabbing some of the newer caches we missed around Beaufort, on the day of the evening event. We decided to go up the Highway to Ararat.

with the wind today these "Bird Blenders" were getting a lot of work done.

TFTC whitejaegar

Find No. 820. Found at 5.35pm with FUF009

A day touring around the countryside caching - Lexton / Beaufort / Ararat areas. FUF009 came with us.

Good to see the renewable energy at work. The 'bird blenders' sure were spinning today due to the weather conditions.

Took 'Cool' badge - Left blue coloured shaped stone.

TFTC

This was geograndad8's first cache find after we had introduced it to him to the game a few weeks earlier so I thought while was here visiting the geo parents that I'd find it too. Great camo, the pattern is a little outdated but effective. Also gave me a reason to drive around all those pesky roadworks. TFTC

Took this little detour to get a closer look at the wind turbines. I think they look quite majestic!

My partner went off after this one. By now I was just following. Getting late in the day. He had this one in hand in a few minutes. TFTC

One last stop before Ararat and Fish n Chips for dinner. The worst viewing area ever, and an easy track to the cache. Co-ords were good, great camo, no complaints.

Found It My First

Tftc

Beautiful views of wind farm

Found it.

First one

First one

1st geocache find! Just found out about it today am am now hooked.

Have been given some quality time so what better than a few smilies. After GCBED3 am looking for flatter terrain.

Nice flat area and cache camoflage. The ants that made this home sure had a pungent stench when squashed. Fly spray from the "may-need-it-sometime-box" was a simple solution.

TNLNSL whitejaegar TFTC

10:43
Heading toward Geelong after an early morning run in and around Ararat. Following Bob Dylan, this stop was a must and gave us a clean slate of smilies!

SL . . Thanks for the hunt whitejaegar.
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17/11/2013 1:41 pm Find #853

Nice easy find earlier today after a short holiday in Ararat testing out our new camper trailer. Great views, thanks whitejaeger.

I was in the area carting machinery from A to B, so I thought I'd pick this one up en route. GeoDad was kind enough to stop off for five minutes and even give me a hand finding it - the cache is in good nick though the camouflage is a bit worse for wear. Signed, sealed, replaced with no issues - and we drove off into the beautiful sunset. Cheers!

Found it and we can't access our old profile so i'm resubmitting the one's we have found. we r getting back into it again now we have 2 Geo Kids so it should be fun!

Fourth on the Adelaide trip. Now, John hadn't intended to do this one, but the scenic detour was too much of a temptation, and this cache was on the way as well. Sensational views of a great renewable resource, getting some serious output from the day's strong winds. Amazing camo ... made me want to salute somehow. In keeping we took the guardsman, left a geonickel. SL, TFTC!

Suscoe's 6th find of the morning and it was coffee time for us.
We arrived at the parking spot and found a fox hanging on the sign, so turned the car around and enjoyed the cuppa.
Cache was found and the signing was done.
As always we enjoyed the slow and steady turning of the wind turbines, they are always relaxing to watch.
Thanks to whitejaegar for placing this cache.

found with stooy on a random days cache run

Found while detouring on the way home. The wind turbines look great with the setting sun on them. Cache and log in great condition, Thanks whitejaegar.

We heading back to Melbourne from the Grampians and took a detour off the highway to get away from the traffic and to look for a cache or two. We pulled up at a suggested photo opportunity which also happened to be the location of this cache. I made my way over towards GZ and about 6 metres before I got there, I literally tripped over the cache. Still in its camouflage cover, it was lying in the open among the long grass.

After signing the log and returning the cache to its camouflage cover, I placed it at the base of the tree that, by my reckoning, is the intended GZ. Thanks to Whitejaegar for putting this cache together.

Found on a Saturday geocaching roadtrip with S 4 Sammy, highrod and Kinkell1

TFTC

Found on a caching day out with highrod, ST37E, S 4 Sammy and TilleyTB.
Very wet walk in but cache was dry inside.
Took pathtag and left a pathtag.
We were being watched by a muggle parked on the track. As we headed back to the car she approached us. Ohoh. Turned out she was a lapsed geocacher, AusHunters. We think we talked her in to starting up again!
TFTC

Found on a geocaching trip to Stawell from Ballarat, with ST37E, Highrod, Kinkell1 and Tilley TB, on International Geocaching Day.

Find #16

A nice quick find after walking through some puddles that mean business.

TFTC

Interesting camouflage
Left pathtag

#976
Quick find. Greetings from Switzerland

cheers

Indulged my fancy for engineering by getting a bit closer to the action than I normally do when going up the Western Hwy. The hide had enough earwigs to start a personal earwig zoo.

This entry was edited by drjim7 on Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 12:30:43 UTC.

It certainly felt windy here but the turbines looked a bit sluggish. No snakes but plenty of earwigs around the cache. TFTC.

These structures have many opponents, but say what you may they are still impressive structures, moving at very high speeds. The viewing area at which the cache is placed is a little overrun, and we were grateful that it was late in the day so no snake sightings due to the long grass. Thanks for bringing us here. TN L: pathtag. TFTC.

Our group road trip to Adelaide from Melbourne went from four to two at the very last minute.  The only consolation of this was that I would be able to pick up more caches on the way, as well as complete the three multi caches that start in Melbourne and finish in Adelaide.  This cache was our first stop of the day. We detoured off the freeway to take in the scenic route and was very disappointed with the first viewing area.  I was glad to have found the cache and no snakes as I walked through the grass to the cache.  Thanks for the cache whitejaegar

Nice scenery and an aptly named cache for today which has been very windy. thanks whitejaegar

There was barely a breath of wind as we approached this location resulting in little movement of the turbines. However, 10 minutes later there was reasonable activity. The cache was a quick find. TFTC whitejaegar

This view is electrifying! Cache is dry and in good condition now. TFTC

Very very wet under foot...

Nice easy find.

TFTC

Pete

walked 3km from a music festival held on the wind farm site to find this cache @ 14:52 on sunday june 12, 2011. can report the cache is in good condition, no signs of moisture inside the container. it's also quite full with treasures! took a billiard ball, left a marble. TFTC.

Detoured down near here to get a waypoit to another cache so grabbed this one while I was on the way. TFTC

Found today in the company of sully1 on our return from the Spring Camping Event.
Interesting spot, and always cause for debate about the merits of these, but they are an impressive site.
My thanks to Whitejaegar for placing this one, TNLNSL

Last of the day in the company of bogonghazy on a trip to Mt Cole and surrounds. It has rained most of the day, but I wasn't going home till I bagged No. 400. and this was it. Found just after 6pm, and a break in the rain, a quick walk to GZ, found and logged. Many Thanks to Whitejaeger.

Due to time constraints on our recent west-east trip, I couldn't grab this one then. Today though, a short diversion from the way down to Hamilton was enough incentive to nab a nice easy find at 16:50. The low cloud today prevented extensive views of the wind farm but several of the windmills were still visible as they silently carried out their work .

TNLNSL. Thanks Whitejaegar.

Junior Makkas found it but dropped it as soon as he saw the Guardian Centipede

He took the guitar and a fish, left a hair clip, butterfly sharpener and a scrapbooking brad.

And the centipede

nice view of turbines great find daughter found on her own using gps now im out of a job

Very wet around here today.
Easy find. Nice camo

A

found it just before dark on my way to see my nan in Ararat. a muggle drove past his view of me it would have looked like i was backing one out in the grass.lol.
t: deck of cads. TFTC

Found on a fine morning - a nice break from the highway, thanks Whitejaeger.

Good to see the $76 million included up keep of photo point car parks! An interesting vantage point on our trip west in fading light. NINO SL TFTC

After the disappointment of not being able to cache in the Mt Cole area due to fires from a controlled burn that got out of hand, I headed out to see the wind farm and find the few caches that circle the farm. Had this one soon after completing 'Chain of Command', hadn't seen this type of camo before so was mildly surprised. Log was signed and cache returned to its spot. TFTC

4.00pm
Found by Roma and Max.
We could see our destination from many kms back on the highway and even from there they looked impressive, not sure we would like to live all that close to them though!
We left our mark in your log and appreciated the camo.
Thank you Whitejaegar for bringing us here.
Romax.

Had to come down this way to grab some info for Great Aussie Icon Hunt #1.4 (GC1KHVG). Finding a cache with a different perspective added to the experience.

An interesting detour i have always wanted to make but never had the time. There are some great viewing points to look at the wind farms going the scenic way. Its good to see everything still damp around the area after the recent rain. Quickly found the container. TNLNSL. Thanks.

A quick stop here to find the cache and enjoy the view a little then it was off up the road to count towers [^]
Cheers, TFTC.

interesting location On The way down to the City Circle Scramble With Skippy&Lambchops And Four-fun what a great weekend was had

Found at 1400, what a windy spot, all of the 36 that i counted were spinning.Thanks.

First find!!! Close to home. Took Kangaroo Keyring and Left Mini Tennis ball.

GZ provided a great view of the wind farm, which we had also seen on our way up to Halls Gap. I couldn't resist taking more photos, while leaving caughtatwork to do the hard work.
Thanks Whitejaeger for the cache.

Found by caughtatwork at 12:49
Wow. What a great view of the wind farm. Mr Mini took the time to grab some pictures while I found the interestingly cammod cache in the first place I checked.
Took nothing, left nothing.
Thanks Whitejaeger for this cache experience today.
*Overall Experience: 3*
GAFF 1

Rated: for Overall Experience

We have been observing the turbines for a while now but this cache took us to the best vantage site yet.
Able to park quite close and familiar cammo marked the cache.
Thanks Whitejaeger.
TNLN

Find # 2722 and 12th of the day at 12:49pm. Accompanied by Feathertop on a day out caching to Ararat and beyond. nice views, TNLN, Signed Log , Thanx Whitejaegar....

Interesting spot, Lots of photo opportunity's too
Thanks WhiteJaegar

TFTC
Cheers & Happy Hunting, [blue]Shane4[/blue]

Found at 11:05.
Made a quick stop.
The photo is of Skippy taking a photo of me next to the camera sign

Well we had to drive past here to get the clues for the Windmill icon cache
Thanks Whitejaegar

A quick find and a few photos taken with the Dragonfreys. TFTC.

Found with Razz'l'Dazz'n'Co on their quest for 100 today. Nice scenic area with light winds today. Perfect day for caching. Thanks for the fun.

A nice find. It is on the way to the farm in which I was heading. Find #3 for the day. It was a bad view this dark day though. The smoke was blowing over from the melbourne bush fires and was so thick not a single wind tower could be seen.

TNLN


"Wolvo"
aka "Drunken Monkey Tracker"
1345hrs

Kids were intrigued why one windmill wasn't turning while the rest were. An easy find.
T-whistle/L-cards
TFTC

Found at 12.10am GAFF1. Our fourth “warm-up†cache on The Grampians Secrets group expedition weekend. With Ian & Penny and maccamob with us, we sprinted off to find this cache as they had both already done it. It was certainly blowing around here and playing havoc with our fuel consumption as we were towing a van. We have been by this area before and just love the look of the majestic wind mills, however as Muzza mentions, why are they called “wind farms� Do they grow and cultivate wind? Thanks Whitejaegar.

I've seen the wind farm from a distance, but didn't realize how many windmills there were. Does a wind farm grow wind? It certainly seemed like it today - the wind was blowing quite strongly. Found the cache nice and easily. Thanks for the cache.

Have been meaning to stop for this cache for quite a while and finally made it. Great view of the windmills even though it was a little overcast. TNLN TFTC

Found by Mary & David at 2030. Now we are humming THATsong by Peter, Paul and Mary! Wonderful views in the evening light with dark clouds gathering behind the wind mills. We did another cache earlier today at the Codrington Wind Farm on the coast. TNLN. Our thanks to Whitejaegar.

Finally took this scenic detour on the way out west. Not as scenic as hoped, but gave us an excuse to grab an out of the way cache.

Nice camo, but easily found. Flicked off a spider or two and made a few quick swaps.

TFTC!

Found @ 4:03:52 PM (Cachemate time)

Great cammo. We wonder if the other pocket will turn up at a nearby cache?

T: N
L: Screwdriver
SL
TFTC
24/08/08

I've seen a few windfarms this trip and Deano explained the cost benefits to the local land owners - I wish I had some land to put them on! The camo was effective but not as much fun when its wet and contains a few nasty critters.

Thanks,

R - B

A quick dash and retrieve on this find as the temperature was only 10, and the wind was getting up. This is certainly a well camouflaged one! T: eraser; L: marble and bracelet. Thanks Whitejaeger.

Very nice view of the widmills the weather also was blowing strongly Found the cache fairly easy and the camouflaging was great This was my No 3 find Left a little plastic frog and took a Travel Bug to take to another cache.

Thanks Whitejaegar for a a great cache

This was a nice little deviation off the main road and we had a good idea where it might be as we had thought of putting a cache here ourselves. After Tom Tom decided he knew best and took us on a very muddy road to get to this cache the rest was plain sailing. the cache was located quickly, loved the camo
We took the coin and left TB legoland
Thanks Whitejaegar for the cache

sandar10 thinks I'm full of hot air but this place was all wind and freezing on the day. top viewing area whitejaeger
Cheers

Found whilst attending the Mulled on the Mountain Event.

Found by McAdies.
This was a nice scenic drive on the way to Ararat. The windmills looked awesome from here. We took the busted geocoin and left the loved this cache geocoin we found in Tasmania.

Our previous two caches yielded our 600th overall find and our 250th for the year, this one was to be our 58th FTF.
Some great cammo again Whitejaegar, and with the accurate co-ords, the search area was narrowed to the obvious location.
Some great infrastructure, lucikly not too covered by the fog that nearby Mt. Langi Ghiran and Mt. Gorrin were covered with.
Took the scenic route back to Beaufort and found another viewing area on the way back that got us even closer.
Hopefully if the Stockyard Hill plan goes ahead, I might be able to place a cache very close to one. (land-owners permission shouldn't be too much of an issue).
Took nothing (some very good swaps for kids in there), left Geocoin.
Thanks again WhiteJaegar.

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