On Mar 6, 2012, at 1:37 AM, Brian Walters wrote: > I'll see your Big Fish and raise you our Big Galah (Kimba, in rural South > Australia). > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Big-Galah.jpg
That's quite amusing. Does anywhere have a big budgie? > In Australia, the 'big' craze started with the Big Banana in Coffs Harbour in > the 50s and grew from there. So we now have things like the Big Barramundi > at Daintree, the Big Merino at Goulburn, the Big Prawn at Ballina and the Big > Mosquito (Ossie the Mossie) at Hexam. > > Then there's the Big Potato at Robertson (which, to mild amusement of > visitors, looks more like a big turd...) There must have been a similar craze here at some stage because a number of towns have monuments like that. Rakaia is just the closest to where I am :) The fish has been there for as long as I remember. Recently a new attraction, Salmon World, was built nearby. The building itself is in the shape of a fish but you can only see this from the air. Despite the name they also have two varieties of trout on display. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
