Federation Randoms - Dexter Horizontal Windmill Urana, New South Wales, Australia
By Thewins5 on 30-Dec-22. Waypoint GCA3CNH

Thanks for my first find!

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Great piece of history to look at.

Fun to find not to hard not to easy

This was a fascinating location to visit. The Dexter Horizontal Windmill is certainly unusual. Thankfully there was sufficient wing today for the windmill to be in action. Accurate coordinates and a familiar style of hide led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks Thewins5 for the cache and for bringing us here.

Thank you

Quick find TFTC

Tftc, Lou and Paul from the Blue Mountains NSW. Travelling with Savannah. Cache in good order.

Managed to put our hands on this one rather quickly while on our way further south. TFTC

Found with Boot65 on way to Ballarat.

Quick stop on my way from Wagga Wagga to Mulwala. Thanks. TFTC

Quick find here with the kids as we meander home after our central NSW adventure. Thanks for the cache.

Very interesting site, well worth the stop and read and of course the cache, thank you for bringing us here.

Very interesting machine. Unfortunately no wind while we were in the area. Thanks for the cache.

TFTC Thank you for hiding this cache. You have shown us a new place and have helped make geocaching an enjoyable activity.

WA Big Trip Winter 2024. Day 2 - Lockhart to Moulamein via Jrana, Jerilderie, Deniliquin and Wakool. It seemed like a freezing cold night last night, but I am sure it is going to get colder as I go further south. I did a bit of caching around Jrana before moving on to Jerilderie & Deniliquin where there were only Labs left to do, before heading to Moulamein for the night. I managed to get a spot behind the pub, despite all the bikes here for what seems to be a big band night . I could be an interesting night.With a normal windmill over the road and this one here, it was quite an amazing sight. I was joined by two young lads who were also looking for this cache, but I found the prize and we all signed it and put it back.Thanks for the cache Thewins546367.2 TNLNVisited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2007 March Signal A#89**Albida**

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While passing through town with ilook4geo we stopped here to have a look at this very different windmill. We were not looking forward to hunting for the cache with all the possible spots, but we actually lucked on the container quickly. Thank you to Thewins5 for showing us this unusual windmill.

Made the find here with goingplaces2. Thankfully it was a quicker than expected find, log was signed and replaced, then the job was done. TFTC.

Heading back to SA after a Mega time in Canberra. Peas&CarrotsForever and myself have our house on wheels following us along the roads, stopping occasionally for silo art and caches After finding the cache it was then a wander over to check out the silo art TFTC Thewins5Keep smiling

On our way home from the Canberra Geobash and stopped her to see the spider.

Found on our canberra journey. We wander through the land, grabbing caches and seeing the sights even occasionally catching up with friends A good day was had while grabbing these caches with lots of miles covered Thanks for placing them *Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Find 5120 on April 2, 2024Found on our way home from the Capital Geobash. Today we travel from Wagga Wagga to EchucaWhat a cool piece of engineering. thankfully enough wind to see it in action. All is well with the cache. TFTC Thewins5

Quick easy find as we came to see the giant spider. Thanks

This is the strangest windmill I have ever seen, and I must say that I prefer the traditional design. The cache was found speedily.

It was time for the traditional post Christmas road trip. The stockings were emptied of presents, feasts were devoured and great times were had with family and friends. Now to get away!Day 1: Melbourne to Griffith via some rain, storms and a few caches.OzHockeyChick wasnt a fan of the arachnid across the road so we stopped here to check out this interesting windmill.Thanks Thewins5 for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy. It was a great day out!----------------------------------------------------------The Ballarat GeoTour ends on 4 March 2024! Be sure to find all the caches and earn the souvenir before the tour is archived. The [Farewell Ballarat GeoTour Event - GCAFQ8B](https://coord.info/GCAFQ8B) is on 18 February 2024.Looking for caches to find when visiting Victoria? Why not check out the geocaching lists available on the [Geocaching Victoria Website](https://geocachingvictoria.com.au/information/great-caching-lists/). There are plenty to choose from including all of the previous nominees and winners of the Victorian Cache of the Year Awards.

A loose plan was hatched for a 3-week road trip with RoamingHowie to explore locations in Country NSW wed not been to before and of course, find a cache here and there.DAY ONE: Wilby, Yarrawonga, Narrandera & Griffith.I must admit Ive not ever seen a horizontal windmill before. Interesting engineering. Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, Thewins5 ~~

#2606A yuck park and grab on my return roadtrip back to Sydney after finishing work in Albury broadcasting the BBL cricket.Just a nice park and grab but watch out for the guarding near by

Bend the knees. All good. Thanks

We have seen, fixed/repaired and provided parts for plenty of windmills over the years, but we have never come across this particular type before! Fascinating! and wonderful that a cache has been placed nearby to highlight it. SL at 2pm and we left one of our windmill pathtags to celebrate finding it. On our way to Boree Creek for some adventures. #10,413 TFTC Thewins5

Road trip with Muddtrax and it Took a while to find this sucker. But we decided have one last look Got ya! TFTC

#696 ~ Driving by on our way to Tassie we stopped for a short break & thought wed quickly find this cache before heading back on the road. Wrong!!! This elusive cache had us searching for a good 40min. It really shouldnt have been as hard as we made it if only we looked at the right angle. I did not want a DNF on this one cause its unlikely well be back this way. One last check & Krossbo nabbed it. Thank goodness we found it and put a smile here on the map. Thanks for making us stop at this interesting piece of history & TFTC!! Our TB travelers TB40Z1C Bunny Bug, TBGC9X Chiboogie Pup & TB421W3 Travel Racer Andrew thought it a nice photo opportunity

Easily found tftc

Quick find by Geohubby while staying at Urana CP. A lovely little park to rest and recoup in. TFTC

A quick find while spending the weekend in Urana for the truck show.TFTC

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A day trip to Urana from Cobram. Lovely last winter day for it. Easy find, TFTC

A very interesting structure, thanks for bringing us here.

Came here a month ago and couldn’t find it but today was a quick find. TFTH

I found it!!!!

Found it!

A nice easy cache TFTC

Out with Geowife and Geodog exploring the area. What amazing history we have here. All good here. Now onto the next one for the day. TFTC

Good drive up to Urana got some driving hours up

TFTC we’ll tucked in!!

So much metal. Good thing the coordinates were accurate. TFTH

Nice easy find.

Great caravan park across the road. The walk around the lake was also very good.

T4TC. TNLN.

Kind regards,
Ric

TFTF

Passing through on the way to Canberra and stopped to make a quick find here.

There was a HUGE cache guardian across the road!
TFTC

We wanted to see it spinning

TFTC and greetings from Tassie

First one for 2023!
Staying in Jerilderie for a couple of nights and came out here for lunch and some L-plate hours.
TFTC all in great condition

We are on the way to the MEGA 2023 in Rutherglen.

We found this cache and signed the log.

Tftc TheWins 5

We only stopped for one cache from Grong Grong to Corowa and this was it. A great choice... this is a most unusual windmill. TFTC Thewins5.

Ari, Van, Lukas, Benji and I found this cache after a short walk from the Caravan Park.
Thanks for bringing us to an awesome windmill.

A quick trip to Wagga for a short meeting tomorrow...

Another quick park and grab (almost).

Thank you, Thewins5, for this cache.
#4233. Log signed at 1852Hrs.
(I often sign the log book as "W+W" to save paper/time/ink)

Found while passing through. Interesting exhibit.

12137 Located by baby&Mrs gopher at 1700 on our drive back to The Rock. Always find this type of information worth the stop and read. The board with all, the history and diagrams was found most interesting SL Tnx Thewins5. A FP for the presentation

Having noticed a cluster of 3 new caches in NSW recently, I was surprised to see 2 of them claimed by Laighside Legends [?] But why not the 3rd one[?][?] Turned out it was 'a bit of a detour' and so he kept going
Keeping my eye on that possible FTF[^] I counted the days until I had a day free of appointments
I'd have loved[:X] to have spent the weekend caching in NSW[^] however I had a support worker teed up to try and get 3 pesky caches on Saturday morning[^], so it had to be a day trip[^]
All up 480km round trip[|)], 7 caches found, 1 new adv lab completed and we got back to Shepparton in time to grab a yiros and a bottle of sparkling red wine for tea[:X][^] 2 of the 7 caches were FTFs and we were 1st to complete the new adv lab too
Despite the crazy 40* heat, we had a good day in the trusty little Corolla[:X][:X] who handled the varying potholes, flood wash outs, fallen branches and crazy dirt tracks with aplomb! [:X][^][:X][:X]
I had slip on sandals on so I could kick them off when driving[^] which meant that there was 3 times when I pulled on my rubber boots[^][^][^] to get to caches not because of water but due to long grass, shade under trees and possible snakes[^][^][^]

This was a very interesting history lesson for me![^][^]
I didn't realise that there were windmills like this![?]
Cache was an easy find while I used the car to hide me from the masses of boating people across the road[^]
Afterwards, I took Rex over and gave him several swims in the water at the boat ramp, which he loved[:X][^][:X]

TNLN. SL. TFTC Thewins5

#396 Visiting doing our silo/water tower/mural/painted cow tour. Great invention and very quiet for a Sunday. Greetings from Sydney. TFTC

Found It!
Interesting structure. Not much wind here tonight though. Found the cache after a short search and got FTF at 8:30pm!
TFTC

FTF at 8:30pm

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