More Small Towns and Big Things
On leaving Brisbane, we stopped in the Glass Mountains. We climbed Mount Beerbirrum, which is close to the small town of Beerbirrum. This is just east of the small town of Glass Mountains. The mountain range is quite pretty. There are nine mountains in the range, of which three or four look very difficult to climb. They appear to go to a point at the top, so they are for experienced mountaineers only. Beerbirrum was one of the easier ones, just a short walk up a very steep track.
Noosa was a pleasant town, or rather collection of towns. This is the upmarket beach area, where the rich people go, a complete contrast to the Gold Coast. Pie and I saw a lot of the area, as we got lost on a walk around the town and it took us three hours to get back to our riverside suite.
Following our trip to Fraser Island, we stopped off at Bundaberg, which is the home of rum in Australia. Sadly we saw no sign of that, despite being there on Australia Day. The streets were almost deserted. So we headed to Rockhampton ('Rocky'), the home of beef in Australia, and saw no cows. Nor did we have a steak. Next stop was Mackay. The Thai meal we had was great, but again there was not much happening on a Saturday night. We were the last people to leave the restaurant. At 9pm.
Our big things count is now seven. We looked at the map of Big Things around Australia which was displayed at the Big Banana, to get some ideas of where to go. This map also displayed the rules for your sizeable object qualifying as a Big Thing - it needs to be bigger than the real thing, and it needs to be artificial. This would appear to allow many more things to qualify than were displayed on the map, but we thought we’d stick with the official ones. Following the Big Banana and the Big Prawn from last week, we have now added the Big Hard Rock Guitar from Surfers Paradise, here pictured deliberately with a tree directly in front, to give an idea of scale.
Then there was the Big Pineapple. It was so important that we saw this, that we drove around the area three times to make sure we didn’t miss out. And it was worth it - the biggest and most ridiculous big thing so far, and what’s more - you can climb to the top! And learn about pineapples at the same time!
At the same site was the relatively disappointing Big Macadamia Nut.
Just outside Noosa there is the Big Shell.
And number seven was the impressively big Big Ned Kelly. If you could have climbed up to the top of Ned Kelly, learnt some things about Ned Kelly, or had a delicious glass of Ned Kelly juice, he might have surpassed the Big Pineapple, or even the Big Banana. But no, so the fibreglass Big Pineapple takes the plaudits.
Noosa was a pleasant town, or rather collection of towns. This is the upmarket beach area, where the rich people go, a complete contrast to the Gold Coast. Pie and I saw a lot of the area, as we got lost on a walk around the town and it took us three hours to get back to our riverside suite.
Following our trip to Fraser Island, we stopped off at Bundaberg, which is the home of rum in Australia. Sadly we saw no sign of that, despite being there on Australia Day. The streets were almost deserted. So we headed to Rockhampton ('Rocky'), the home of beef in Australia, and saw no cows. Nor did we have a steak. Next stop was Mackay. The Thai meal we had was great, but again there was not much happening on a Saturday night. We were the last people to leave the restaurant. At 9pm.
Our big things count is now seven. We looked at the map of Big Things around Australia which was displayed at the Big Banana, to get some ideas of where to go. This map also displayed the rules for your sizeable object qualifying as a Big Thing - it needs to be bigger than the real thing, and it needs to be artificial. This would appear to allow many more things to qualify than were displayed on the map, but we thought we’d stick with the official ones. Following the Big Banana and the Big Prawn from last week, we have now added the Big Hard Rock Guitar from Surfers Paradise, here pictured deliberately with a tree directly in front, to give an idea of scale.
Then there was the Big Pineapple. It was so important that we saw this, that we drove around the area three times to make sure we didn’t miss out. And it was worth it - the biggest and most ridiculous big thing so far, and what’s more - you can climb to the top! And learn about pineapples at the same time!
At the same site was the relatively disappointing Big Macadamia Nut.
Just outside Noosa there is the Big Shell.
And number seven was the impressively big Big Ned Kelly. If you could have climbed up to the top of Ned Kelly, learnt some things about Ned Kelly, or had a delicious glass of Ned Kelly juice, he might have surpassed the Big Pineapple, or even the Big Banana. But no, so the fibreglass Big Pineapple takes the plaudits.
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