Windfall Island is small, but it has the most populated village in all of the Great Sea. Several people go about their daily business here, and many side quests are available. Check out everything each time you dock at this bustling island.
Windfall Shops
Windfall Island offers many things to purchase and several shops to visit. Become familiar with each shop as you explore Windfall.
Bomb Shop
Until you get the Bombs item, you can’t do much at the bomb shop. After you’ve acquired the Bombs item, you can purchase bombs from the bomb shop any time. You get 10 bombs for 20 Rupees, 20 bombs for 35 Rupees, or 30 bombs for 50 Rupees, making this a better deal than Beedle’s Shop Ship.
Chu Jelly Juice Shop
At first, you can purchase only Red Potions from the Chu Jelly Juice Shop, which cost 20 Rupees and restore up to eight Hearts on Link’s Life Gauge. After you’ve collected 15 Green or 15 Blue Chu Jellies, give them to Doc Bandham. He invents a Green or Blue Potion, which you can purchase anytime thereafter. Green Potions cost 10 Rupees and fill Link’s Magic Meter; a Blue Potion goes for 60 Rupees and fills both the Life Gauge and Magic Meter. If you’re short on Rupees, get a free potion by giving Doc Bandham 5 Chu Jellies of the same color as the potion you want.
Lenzo’s Pictography Shop
Until you acquire the Picto Box, you can’t do much at the Pictography Shop. After you find the Picto Box, talk to Lenzo about becoming his assistant. He lets you study under him if you complete three tasks, all of which involve taking pictographs with your Picto Box.
After you acquire the Deluxe Picto Box, you can purchase Legendary Pictographs from Lenzo’s Pictography Shop. A Legendary Pictograph shows something in the game that you never have a chance to take a pictograph of—such as a Great Fairy or the water spirit Jabun. Every phase of the moon,, Lenzo sells a Legendary Pictograph for 150 Rupees (if you have seen that character in the story). Purchase them all to complete your figurine collection at the Nintendo Gallery (p. 322)!
Zunari’s Stall
In the early stages of the game, Zunari’s Stall has only one item to purchase—the Boat’s Sail, which sells for 80 Rupees. Talk to Zunari after you defeat the Helmaroc King at the Forsaken Fortress and you can take part in a trading quest to help Zunari pick up some business. Each item you receive in trade from the three Traveling Merchants is delivered to Zunari’s Stall. These items may then be purchased from Zunari and used to decorate Windfall Island.
Beedle’s Shop Ship
Enter Beedle’s Shop Ship, which slowly sails around this island, to purchase items. Here Beedle sells 10 arrows for 30 Rupees, 30 arrows for 60 Rupees, and All-Purpose Bait for 30 Rupees.
Tingle Bottle and Tingle’s Chart
The first time you arrive at Windfall Island, you will have to free Tingle from his jail cell; but you get a couple of goodies. To find the jail, run to Tott, who’s dancing by the gravestone, then turn around and enter the wooden door you see on the nearby building.
To open the door of Tingle’s cell, step on the pressure switch on the floor inside the jail. The door swings open, and after some dialogue, Tingle gives you the Tingle Bottle and Tingle’s Chart. Refer to the “Equipment and Items” chapter for more information on both of these.
Picto Box
After you free Tingle from jail, enter his cell and shove the large wooden crate to one side, revealing a crawl space. Enter it.
The crawl space is a short maze with a number of trapdoors. Don’t crawl onto any wooden floorboards! If you do, you fall through a trapdoor and have to start over. You know you’re on the right track when you begin to pick up Rupees.
Eventually, you come to a small cavern with a chest. Open the chest to get the Picto Box, which allows you to take black-and-white pictographs. Read the two stone tablets in this cavern to learn all about the Picto Box (or refer to the “Equipment and Items” chapter). Crawl onto a trapdoor for a quick exit.
Deluxe Picto Box
To get the Deluxe Picto Box, which captures full-color pictographs, you must complete three tasks for Lenzo using the standard Picto Box.
The first task is fairly simple: Wait by the postbox near the town’s main gate until you see someone mail a letter. The person you’re looking for is Garrickson, the black-haired man with a mustache and red overalls. He starts by Lenzo’s Pictography Shop and slowly walks around, past the Chu Jelly Juice Shop, on his way to the postbox. Position yourself so you can take a good pictograph of Garrickson just as he’s mailing his letter, then return to Lenzo for your next task.
Your next assignment is to take a picture of someone who shakes in fear at a loud noise. Enter the cafe in the daytime, pick up a nearby pot, and smash it against a wall. The cafe’s only customer, Gossack, jumps at the sudden noise and then shakes for a few seconds. Take his pictograph as he’s shaking in fear. Then return to Lenzo for your third mission.
For Lenzo’s final test, you must take a picture of a man and woman, Anton and Linda, who have deep feelings for each other but never really show it. Follow Anton through town. When he reaches the lighthouse building, he stops and looks into Linda’s eyes (Linda is wearing the orange dress). Take a pictograph in the split second that their eyes meet, making sure to get both of them in the shot. Return to Lenzo and he gives you the Deluxe Picto Box. Now your quest to complete the Nintendo Gallery can begin (p. 322)!
Piece of Heart #3, Treasure Charts #7 and #23 (via Squid-Hunt Minigame)
Enter the lighthouse and talk to Salvatore, the man behind the counter, to play the “Squid-Hunt” minigame. It costs 10 Rupees per play and can be tried on your first visit to Windfall Island.
Hit and sink all three ships (or in this case, squids) using 24 shots. If you’re successful, you win Piece of Heart #3. If you win a second time, you get Treasure Chart #7. If you set a new high score, you win Treasure Chart #23. Each win afterward gets you a Purple Rupee or, if you beat your personal high score, an Orange Rupee.
Treasure Charts #29 and #24
If you have the Deku Leaf, you can enter a secret area on the second floor of Lenzo’s Pictography Shop. Stand on top of the wooden stairs that lead to the mansion’s second floor and face Lenzo’s shop (as pictured above). Set the direction of the wind if needed, and use the Deku Leaf to glide to the balcony on the Pictography Shop’s second floor. Enter the door there.
You’re inside the walled-off area on the second floor of Lenzo’s Pictography Shop, where you find two treasure chests. One holds a Purple Rupee; the other contains Treasure Chart #29.
Look carefully at the space between the two chests and notice the crawl space. Enter and crawl until you come out of a picture frame on the Pictography Shop’s stairwell. Climb out and look at Lenzo, who’s talking with Minenco. Take out your Deluxe Picto Box and take a pictograph of Lenzo talking to Minenco. Get them both in the shot, then exit the shop.
Take the pictograph of Lenzo and Minenco to the two gossiping ladies standing near the Chu Jelly Juice Shop (Pompie and Vera). After you show them the pictograph, they realize they’ve been spreading false rumors about Lenzo and thank you for setting them straight. They also give you Treasure Chart #24.
Song of Passing
When you get the Wind Waker, you can learn the “Song of Passing” from Tott at Windfall Island. Run to Tott, who’s always dancing near the gravestone, and pull out the Wind Waker. Don’t play anything, just stand there for a few seconds as the 3/4 tempo plays by itself.
After a few seconds, Tott realizes that the 3/4 tempo is just what he was missing. He teaches you how to play the “Song of Passing,” which changes day to night or night to day. To play it, press 
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Empty Bottle #4
After you defeat the Helmaroc King at the Forsaken Fortress and rescue the kidnapped children, Mila (the blond girl in tattered rags) appears at Windfall Island. During the day she works at Zunari’s Stall, but at night you’ll find her standing near the Chu Jelly Juice Shop. Talk to her at night, and she tells you to get lost. As you walk up the nearby steps, Mila suddenly runs down the path in the opposite direction.
Follow Mila as she makes her way around Windfall, but don’t let her see you. Every few steps, Mila turns around and checks to make sure no one is following her. If you’re not hidden, Mila sees you and runs off, and you have to start over! If you’re partly hidden, Link meows like a cat to fool Mila when she looks over. Eventually, you’re able to follow Mila to Zunari’s Stall, where she tries to break open Zunari’s safe!
Run up to Mila and catch her in the act. If you catch her in time, she’s shocked by your presence and makes several excuses, to which you must answer. Just choose the first answer every time, and Mila will give you an Empty Bottle at the end of the dialogue.
Piece of Heart #30
After you’ve defeated the Helmaroc King at the Forsaken Fortress and rescued the kidnapped children, enter the top floor of the mansion at Windfall Island, where Maggie and her father now live. Ignore her father for now and talk to Maggie, who asks you to mail a love letter for her. Take the letter to the postbox on the island, then return to Maggie.
As soon as you enter their house, you see Maggie’s father arguing with a Rito mail carrier. The Rito is not being allowed to deliver the response to Maggie’s love letter, because Maggie’s father doesn’t want his daughter meddling with such things. In a fury, the Rito leaves the house. Leave as well and go to the cafe up the street.
Inside the cafe, you see the Rito mail carrier drowning his sorrows. Talk to him and agree to deliver the letter to Maggie. Return to Maggie and give it to her. She’s so grateful for your help that she gives you Piece of Heart #30.
Treasure Chart #2
After getting Piece of Heart #30, you can get Treasure Chart #2 from Maggie’s father if you have collected 20 Skull Necklaces. Show him your collection of Skull Necklaces, and he gives you Treasure Chart #2 for 20 of them.
Swift Sail, Piece of Heart #13, Treasure Charts #18 and #38 (via Windfall Auction)
You can participate in the Windfall Auction during the evenings at Windfall Island. Enter the ground floor door of the mansion and talk to Zunari, who runs the auction at night.
Make sure you have plenty of Rupees to throw around before you participate in an auction, especially if you’ve never tried one before. You must outbid several other residents of Windfall Island to win the prize at the end of the auction.
Auctions last for only one minute, but the clock pauses when someone is bidding or otherwise talking. Your bid meter slowly fills as time passes, but you can make it fill much faster by repeatedly tapping 
. Once your bid meter is full, you are asked to place a bid.
Placing a large bid stuns the other bidders for a few seconds. This is especially useful near the end of the auction. If you place a large enough bid with only a few seconds left on the clock, you most likely win the item. Bid 20 percent or more over the item’s current going price to stun your fellow bidders.
The items you can win from the Windfall Auction are Piece of Heart #13, Treasure Chart #18, Treasure Chart #38, and the Swift Sail. Smaller items, like Joy Pendants, are also available. Items are offered at random, so if you don’t like the current item, simply leave the auction and immediately return to try your luck again.
Purple Rupee (via Treasure Chart #18)
Find and open Treasure Chart #18 (which you won from the auction here at Windfall Island) to pull a chest from the Great Sea near Windfall Island. The chest contains a Purple Rupee.
Magic Armor and Piece of Heart #42 (via Trading Quest)
Talk to Zunari after you’ve rescued all the kidnapped children from the Forsaken Fortress, and he tells you that business is slow. He asks you to help him out by traveling to distant islands and trading with Traveling Merchants. This gives Zunari new, exotic items to sell at Windfall Island. Agree to help Zunari and he gives you the first trading quest item, a Town Flower.
Once you’ve agreed to help Zunari, seek out the three Traveling Merchants on the Great Sea. One is found at Mother & Child Isles (B2), another at Greatfish Isle (B4), and the third at Bomb Island (F5). Set sail for Mother & Child Isles first. Don’t use the “Ballad of Gales” warping song to get there or you get stuck inside Mother Isle and have to warp back out again!
Once you reach Mother & Child Isles, sail to Child Isle and run up to the Traveling Merchant. Talk to him and he tells you all about life as a Traveling Merchant. Show him the Town Flower that Zunari gave you and agree to trade it for a Sea Flower. The Traveling Merchant tells you that you’ve struck a Merchant’s Oath. In keeping with that oath, he will send a supply of Sea Flowers to Zunari’s Stall.
Your next destination is Greatfish Isle (B4). Warp there directly by conducting the “Ballad of Gales.” Sail to the isle’s west side, where another Traveling Merchant stands on a small wooden raft. Trade your Sea Flower to this Traveling Merchant for the Exotic Flower, which also is sent to Zunari for sale at his stall. Next, warp to Forest Haven (F6) and sail north to Bomb Island (F5). Trade your Exotic Flower to the Traveling Merchant there for a Sickle Moon Flag, which is sent to Zunari’s Stall at Windfall Island as well.
These three all-new items help Zunari generate some serious business. Warp to Windfall Island and talk to Zunari to receive the Magic Armor as thanks for your help. While active, this armor causes Link to lose Rupees instead of Hearts when wounded. Link is therefore invincible while wearing Magic Armor, but only as long as he has Rupees in his Wallet!
There’s more to be gained from the trading quest, however. The Traveling Merchant at Greatfish Isle (B4) desires a mysterious Shop Guru Statue above all else and will give you Piece of Heart #42 if you bring one to him. To acquire the Shop Guru Statue, continue to trade with Traveling Merchants. Here are the quickest steps to the Shop Guru Statue:
- Greatfish Isle (B4): Trade your Sickle Moon Flag for a Fountain Idol.
- Mother & Child Isles (B2): Trade your Fountain Idol for a Big Sale Flag.
- Greatfish Isle (B4): Trade your Big Sale Flag for a Hero’s Flag. Immediately trade your Hero’s Flag back to this same Traveling Merchant to get a Postman Statue.
- Mother & Child Isles (B2): Trade your Postman Statue for a Shop Guru Statue.
- Greatfish Isle (B4): Trade your Shop Guru Statue for Piece of Heart #42.