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Scouting for Full Moon Site - This is Gate 13 near Birds Landing. There is a nice curve in the maintenance road and you can get a good triangle with the front 3 windmills. The moon should rise near where the road meets the horizon.
Windmills near Altamont. Poor framing on my part, but I like the cow casually grazing in front of these giant rotating blades.
I was so excited to be in Sweden, though, so I took photos on the bus. Not too many of them turned out too great, & I ended up getting good pictures of Helsingborg later on anyway.
The first of the windmills in the Rural Museum is probably the rarest in the town - a Plavia windmill manufactured by van Gelder of Sydney in the late 1920s. An interesting variation on the then-new Savonius design, this vertical axis windmill transmits the sails' motion into vertical oscillation for pumping through a simple bevel gear.
A sign reads:
Plavia Windmill
Origin & age unknown
Believed to be the only one in Australia
Donated by M.F.Neilsen