Wind Mill Views Hugh, Northern Territory, Australia
By redcenterdazza on 21-Feb-17. Waypoint GC70XBE

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15-Nov-24
ThanksSL
 
14-Nov-24
Easy grab .SL TFTC
 
06-Nov-24
TFTC
 
05-Nov-24
TFTC found it easy
 
04-Nov-24
Tftc
 
18-Aug-24
Wished I'd found the track on the way in! TFTC
 
16-May-24
Found with O319 on our day caching around the area
 
15-May-24
Not much of the windmill left. Found with SJG66 on a spectacular day spent checking out the West Macdonnell Ranges. TFTC.
 
15-Oct-23
Good oneCheers
 
18-Jul-23
This geocacher reported that there is a problem with this cache.
 
15-Jul-23
On our way back to Alice from doing the Owen’s spring track we stopped to grab this cache, it took us a bit longer than it should have and we found the cache full of water and the log nearly paper mache, sorry I didn’t have a replacement, thanks for placing it
 
13-Jul-23
Heading from Alice Springs towards Kings Canyon and eventually Yulara, we stopped at this cache.
Unfortunately the log was soaked, and does need a replacement.
 
What a great little cache that had a bit of water in it, emptied out by goose before we added our names as best we could. the view of the windmill was very good.

This trip was sort of in place of a trip to a Mega that got canceled due to accommodation problems, I was quite happy when Goose said do you fancy to caching break in the Northern Territory as this would be the last State or Territory for me in Australia.

Our plan was to fly into Darwin on the Friday night have a couple days in the area then start heading South stopping overnight whenever we needed to, our next goal was the drive to the geographic centre of Australia at Lambert Centre and then head back to Alice to fly home ten days later.

We both had a great trip finding some important old caches, large ones and the odd clever one too, we found Ammo Cans all over the place which was nice as i think we have found most of the ones at home in Tassie.

Thanks for the cache.

Found on 08/07/2023 at 16:57:00 thanks to redcenterdazza for placing this cache for me to find.

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08-Jul-23
We'd been finding a few caches for stainless steel rat to log but I'd found them all before so this was the first for me in quite a while.
We tipped all the water out and managed to stamp the soggy log. Sorry we couldn't do some better maintenance.
Thanks redcenterdazza

Our Northern Territory journey began in Darwin around 3am after a very delayed flight. We drove as far north as Fresh Water Camp (northeast of Darwin), followed by a loop to Liberated Cox (out to the west) and Litchfield National Park returning to Darwin. We then headed south with overnight stops at Katherine, Daly Waters and Devils Marbles before reaching our southernmost accommodation at Erldunda. From here we did a day trip to Lamberts Gravitational Centre on onward past Finke. Our last couple of days were in Alice Springs with a side trip via Hermannsburg and Glen Helen, all up covering just under 3800km. My thanks to all the COs with hides throughout the territory for helping make our trip so enjoyable.
 
07-Nov-22
d
 
31-Aug-22
O
 
10-Aug-22
TFTC!!
 
02-Aug-22
TFCF
 
13-Jul-22
Hard
 
13-Jul-22
No
 
11-Jul-22
Cool
 
04-Jul-22
Mr 9 and I started walking through the long grass and gave up due to feeling unsafe. We got back in the car and found the drive way! That took us right to gz.
 
03-Jul-22
Found
 
29-Jun-22
Nice walk up to the windmill although I don't think it would do much. Tftc
 
13-Jun-22
Found it. Visited this caches in a sunday evening and night with a car in a short trip to australia. I'VE FORGOTTEN A PEN TO SIGN THE LOGS . Greetings from Brasov, Romania
 
26-May-22
Windmill has seen better days. Cache in good nick though. TFTC Smile
 
15-Apr-22
Yes got it
 
13-Apr-22
Sir_spectre and I went on a long overdue holiday to the Northern Territory. We had some great experiences and saw some amazing natural wonders. Not all went to plan - covid closures, flood effected roads, renovations, hot weather, some car troubles and not forgetting the huge jump in fuel costs Smile
Any caches that needed repairs were fixed and numeous logs were replaced or added too.
Thanks to redcenterdazza from mogni Smile
 
13-Apr-22
well i saw the windmills before i saw the cache. quick find.

Mogni and myself went to the Northern Territory for a 10 day holiday. We drove 5478 km's in those 10 days. The plan was to go up the Sturt highway and then go via Ayers Rock, King's Canyon and then through to Alice Springs stopping at the gorges/chasm/gaps along the way. As you can expect nothing goes to plan. Day 1 Adelaide to Cooper Pedy, made it just before the Roxby Downs turn off and blow the side wall on the tire of the 4x4, 193 km detour just to get a tire and even then it was the second tire place that had the tire the correct size. We had camels come in to the campsite in Erldunda Roadhouse, they even left hoof prints 1/2 a foot from the tent, at King's Canyon we had dingo's come through the camp ground both nights we where there and at Alice springs we had a mouse move in under the tent in their campground. Some of the aboriginal towns we passed where in lock down because of covid 19 so no going in to get fuel there, that changed some plans. The floods where way worse up in Northern Territory than i realized. Some creeks/rivers i could see the debris over 2 meters from the river bed and down one 4x4 track it washed the road away completely, the hole was 3/4 the length of the 4x4 and over 6 foot deep. The temp was 33 to 36 for 9 of the 10 days and finally cooled down for the drive home. We got 7 different caches types in the N.T. plus every different cache size. It was a good trip but not the one we planned. To many of the roads in the N.T. where damaged and not repaired ( still closed ) so that cancelled plan A but that's just a excuse to come back isn't it. Come back and see what you missed last time when the roads are fixed. We came with 19 regular " geocaching size " containers and a milk crate of small containers by day 7 all the regulars where used as replaced caches and by day 8 the smalls where gone. It was the UV rays a lot more than the floods that killed the caches and almost all the log books where saved, the micro containers seemed to have constantly full log sheets so they where replaced too.
 
18-Dec-21
A nice little stop on our way to Glen Helen. TFTC. Cache in good order
 
06-Sep-21
Found it on holiday
 
23-Aug-21
A great location
 
14-Aug-21
Getting some of the backlog done on caches that were found with ilook4geo. Some were found around Alice and some were further out. There was no problem in finding this one and the log soon had two more names added to the list. All was then put back as it had been found. Thanks for the cache placement go to redcenterdazza
 
14-Aug-21
Checking out some of the caches on offer around Alice Springs with goingplaces2. Cache was found, log was signed, all was replaced. Job done! TFTC.
 
29-Jul-21
I viewed the windmills on the way from Alice Springs to Ellery Waterhole, and found this cache as well. Great spot for a cache. Loving caching in the West Macdonnell ranges.
 
23-May-21
Exploring Oz
 
19-Apr-21
??
 
01-Apr-21
A nice drive out this way and we stopped off here. Parked nearby and the cache was in our hands. Log signed and replaced as found. Thanks redcenterdazza
 
04-Jan-21
TFTC!
 
25-Nov-20
Nicely found here .
Cache is in good condition. Container will last another 12 months.
Visited 3 TB.
TFTC.
 
08-Nov-20
Windmill needs some TLC. Nice views of the ranges. Thanks for placing a fun cache guys. We do love your work. We signed the logbook. Of course we did that is way we play this game. Cache in pretty good condition for the cache age.

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This particular geocache was found using one of the following GPS enabled devices, Garmin GPSr, Montana 680t, Oregon 650 or Dakota 20 and a Samsung S8. Waypoints and paperless geocaching were downloaded via GSAK 9. Log prepared, checked and submitted using GSAK publish logs...

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08-Nov-20
Found on a quick caching run north. Adelaide to Alice Springs and back in a week.

A short diversion and the cache was in hand.

TFTC
 
02-Sep-20
Out doing some Gaps and Gorges, grabbing caches along the way. TFTC
 
26-Jul-20
Found during a fun day out with JJ52 where we tackled the Larapinta loop and cached along the way. Both of us kept commenting on the variety of landscapes and vegetation seen during the drive.

Water is the blood of life, especially in this dry environment and windmills were and early use of renwable energy to bring water to the surface. When you think back to the time this windmill was constructed and ponder the premative methods used to locate a viable location, drill down to the watertable, transport and finally contruct the windmill....

Thanks for the cache redcenterdazza.
 
26-Jul-20
A day out with sushilord had been organised heading for Hermannsburg and doing the loop calling in to St Helens and picking up as many caches as we could along the way. We had both solved the puzzle caches along this route and they were targeted as we went past. [^]
It was a near perfect caching day, with 27 caches found, lots of amazing scenery, history and geology with numerous photos taken where we stopped. This was the highlight of my visit to Alice Springs. Cool
One thing I will remember about caching in Alice Springs is....rocks, rocks and more rocks. Surprised
The windmill looks like it has seen better days. Surprised
Thanks for the cache redcenterdazza. Smile
 
24-Jul-20
We found it easily.
TFTC
 
12-Jul-20
Love windmills, tftc.
 
06-Jul-20
A great place to stop with the Geokids and for them to experience a bit of history
TFTC
 
15-Dec-19
Hi
 
04-Dec-19
Nice quick find, think the windmill has seen better days.
TFTC
 
04-Dec-19
A nice easy park and grab. Not sure the windmill works any more.

Thanks for the cache redcenterdazza.
Found on 4/12/19 at 12:56 pm.
Find #10282.
 
30-Sep-19
Great spot in the desert
 
25-Sep-19
Sweet , TFTC
 
22-Sep-19
This windmill has seen better days. Easy find thanks.
 
21-Sep-19
@Davidwazza and I travelled to the Northern Territory from Adelaide for a 2.5 weeks road trip holiday in the infamous black jeep. We took a route through Port Augusta, Woomera, Roxby Downs, Andamooka, and then drove the Oodnadatta Track via Coward Springs, William Creek (including a Lake Eyre scenic flight), Oodnadatta, and Marla. It was then onwards to visit Uluru (Ayers Rock), Kata Tju?a (Olgas), Kings Canyon, and then drove the Red Centre Way aka. Mereenie Loop Road to see the Tjoritja (West MacDonell Ranges), calling in to see the various highlights. We then stayed a few nights in Alice Springs, and included a day trip to see the East MacDonell Ranges, before heading home in a more direct route through Palm Valley, Owen Springs Reserve, Henbury Craters, and the Lambert Centre of Australia, and finally Coober Pedy.

Today, we set off from Glen Helen Gorge, exploring the West MacDonells as we made our way to Alice Springs.

TFTC!
 
17-Aug-19
Love the windmill. On our way to Glen Helen.
 
18-Jul-19
Found heading back to Alice Springs after a very long day exploring the West MacDonnell Ranges in week 3 of our 5 week outback adventure. Tftc
 
17-Jul-19
Thanks Molly2302
 
24-Jun-19
Traveling australia. Staying at Alice Springs. Out exploring the area and thought we would do some caches in the area. Thanks for the cache
 
21-Jun-19
By a beautyful day together with barbarine in the West MacDonnall Ranges I found this cache. Thank you for the hide and greetings from Germany.
 
21-Jun-19
I found the cache together with finderus by a nice trip to the West MacDonnall Ranges. Thank you for the hide and greetings from Germany.
 
10-Jun-19
Found this one TFTC
Took trackable
 
18-Apr-19
Found it!
 
09-Nov-18
During our great roadtrip through Australia we spent a great day out in the West MacDonnell Range and found a lot of caches. This was one of them.

TFTC,
Greetings from Switzerland,
The Navikatzen
 
13-Oct-18
On the way back to Alice Springs we stopped to look at the windmill. Tftc!
 
10-Oct-18
Nice easy find
TFTC
 
04-Oct-18
TFTC
 
20-Aug-18
Nice windwill
 
31-Jul-18
Quick find while staying in Alice. Left a TB. TFTC
 
16-Jul-18
Quick find on our way to Glen Helen. TFTC
 
30-Jun-18
found it easy enough - gosh the rocks are spiky to sit on when you want to sign the log!
 
06-Jun-18
Found
 
06-Jun-18
Thanks
 
06-Jun-18
Thanks
 
31-May-18
With Mrs one eyed in our 4WD we spent great afternoon caching in the West Mac's .
We have spent some enjoyable hol's in this area both photographing and caching, so stopping here was a real joy.
Found the cache okay, took lots of Windmill pics.
TFTC
one-eyed
 
21-May-18
Hurrah! After two blue faces, at last a smiley. Tftc
 
23-Mar-18
Found on our way to Alice.TFTC.
 
07-Mar-18
Nice and quick find! Thanks for taking us to this nice spot! TFTC
 
17-Jan-18
as soon i a read windmills i wanted to come here
specially since it was sunset. i even went bellow it
thank you so much for sharing this western point of interest
 
28-Oct-17
Easy find. Nice settings tftc
 
21-Oct-17
Found it very easy. Tftc
 
21-Oct-17
Found it on a very muggelfree place...tftc..
 
25-Aug-17
WHOOPS! I'm logging about 100-200 or so caches like 3 months after the trip that we found them on! Completely forgot to log these but I did not forget the trip! Found this cache along with many others on an adventure around the red centre. Along this adventure we visited and explored many phenomenal and surreal places such as Woomera, Coober Pedy, Uluru and Mutitjulu, Kata Tjuta, Wattarka, Tnorala, Both East and West Macdonnell ranges, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Parts of the Finke road, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Oodnadatta track, Mount Dare, Dalhousie Springs, Painted Desert, Moon plane and I'm sure I've missed a few! Thank you so much for the cache. Found with Ferociousflea and -Beaker- along with our mint 79 series that accomplished alot in this two week time frame.
TFTC Smile
 
25-Aug-17
Found with Beaker and Astronaut99 on a Red Centre Roadtrip Adventure... Thanks Smile
 
25-Aug-17
Found on the way to our Red Centre adventures that included Coober Pedy, Uluru, Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, Tnorala, West Macs, East Macs, Arltunga, Ruby Gap, Palm Valley, Boggy Hole, Rainbow Valley, Old Ghan Route, Chambers Pillar, Mt Dare, Dalhousie, the Painted Desert and many other fantastic spots!! Travelled and cached with FerociousFlea and Astronaut99.

TNLNSL
TFTC
TTFN
Beaker Smile

 
17-Aug-17
An easy grab following the road track rather than following GPS "as the crow flies" and bush bashing. Tftc and showing us the windmill Smile
 
10-Aug-17
Quick find
 
09-Aug-17
Tftc! Left a monkey took nothing
 
07-Aug-17
Pulled up and I volunteered to walk to the cache. I waded through the grass and stumbled over rocks and finally got to the cache location. Signed and strolled back long the perfectly good road to the car. More research needed before setting out! TFTC.
 
07-Aug-17
Watched Alwyn go cross country to the cache and was surprised when she turned and came back a different way. Then I heard about the road. Oh well - we may do better next time. TFTC
 
18-Jul-17
Found while on our central trip
Left trinkets
tftc
 
14-Jul-17
On our way out to Papunya and to find a few more caches.
We have always loved old Windmills and was pleased to see
this one. The nicely hidden cache was found, signed and put
back in its hidey hole...

Thanks redcenterdazza

Little Squirell
Wink
 
04-Jun-17
We spent the night at Erldunda and had plenty of time to make it to Alice before nightfall so we took a leisurely drive through the Owens springs reserve picking up caches as we went and then along the highway to Alice itself.

We also enjoy these iconic features on the landscape and as we pulled up here we thought that we were in for a walk through the long grass and decided to leave it for another day. We drove on a bit we spotted a promising looking side track which fortunately took us straight to gz where the cache was located in the second place we looked right where the GPSr was pointing. We added our name to the log and when walking back to the car we noticed that the windmill was turning even though there was only the slightest of breezes today.

Thanks redcentredazza for the cache.
 
05-May-17
Easy pick up on our day trip to the West MacDonnells.
 
21-Apr-17
Catching up on logs after the event in Alice, what a great event! TFTC
 
21-Apr-17
Find No: 5961. Visiting from Newcastle, staying at Big4 courtesy of NRMA awaiting new engine for the Mighty Prado, thanks for the cache redcenterdazza!!
 
19-Apr-17
Found as part of Canberra Crunchers (Scruffyblake, Darzee Di, ACTchil, Kittykatch, Mtrax, Joolay and Me_To while on the hunt to get Darzee di here 2000th cache.

Great day had walked around 9km and grabbed 33 caches and between us we placed 3 new ones on the trail.

Thanks redcenterdazza (F=709 H=62) for the cache and for bringing us here.

TNLNSL TFTC
 
19-Apr-17
Found with Darzi Di and ACT Chill.
Thanks to redcenterdazza for the cache. Big Grin

Found during our five week journey half-way around Australia, for the NT Experience OzMega event, somewhere between: ACT -> NSW -> Qld -> NT -> SA -> Vic -> NSW -> ACT.

So many stories to tell. So many experiences had. So little time to mention them all.

Sincerely
the 4as1 team:
Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to
 
19-Apr-17
I went on a family holiday to the OzMega event in Alice Springs. We drove forever, but saw some interesting places. Thank-you redcenterdazza for the geocache.

Thank you
Me_to from the the 4as1 team.
(Scruffyblake, The S's, Charli_bear & Me_to)

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18-Apr-17
Geocaching has taken me on many adventures over the years all over Australia and overseas. It has also introduced me to a brilliant and diverse group of people, many of whom are now close friends.

Today I was lucky enough to be out and about so I targeted this cache.

Sorry for the late log, but thanks for adding to the adventure!


Thanks redcenterdazza for placing this cache.