What is it about Windmills?

Have you ever met anyone that is not fascinated and soothed by a slowly turning gently clunking windmill?

I never tire of seeing the windmill that stands so 
tall and proud outside theBloemhofKaroo homestead - so elegant,  yet so vitally crucial on the farm.

The wind in the Karoo can be so tiresome but we always console ourselves with the fact that life-giving water is being collected at a rate of knots for our crops, animals and gardens!

WINDMILLS are an ingenious invention dating back to the 12th century, and we're still using them all over the Karoo;    our lifesource in the veld.
Until 1750, windmills were turned by hand to face the wind;  thereafter the new fantail automatically kept the windmill in an optimal position.

I never realised how much expertise there is amongst the Karoo people to understand, repair and even salvage windmills - almost any farm worker can scramble up to the top in a jiffy, set the brake (yes, a windmill has a brake), and do all sorts of tweaking to enable gathering (but not overflowing!) of water.
































'LOVE IS THAT TO LIFE WHAT WIND IS TO A WINDMILL'



 "The Windmill never strays in search of the Wind".

 Lifesource at BloemhofKaroo.