Big Things Archives - Australia by Red Nomad OZ

Good enough to EAT! Big Prawn, Ballina, New South Wales

The Controversial Crustacean! Big Prawn Ballina, New South Wales

July 25, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australia, Ballina, Big Prawn, Big Things, New South Wales, Northern Rivers, Richmond River

Once upon a time – WAAAAAAY back in the dim, distant world of 1989 – Ballina’s tail-less BIG Prawn sat atop the West Ballina transit centre and restaurant. Inside, visitors could climb up into its head and view a distorted world through the thick perspex of its concave eye. Over time, as businesses came and went below, the passive prawn’s[…]

The Next BIG Thing! Glenrowan, Victoria

February 23, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Beechworth, Big Ned Kelly, Big Things, Bushranger, Glenrowan, Jerilderie, Ned Kelly, Victoria

Living in a landscape populated with giant fibreglass representations of fruit and animals is quite normal to many Aussies. Irrespective of whether or not such objects are in good taste! Commemorating criminals by building statues and devoting whole tourism campaigns to the bushrangers who dominated the early days of colonialism is also an intrinsic part of Aussie-dom. Irrespective of whether[…]

Halfway Across Australia!

October 21, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Big Galah, Big Things, Eyre Peninsula, Kimba, Road Trips, South Australia

The 4000 km drive from east to west is such a LOOOONG way even getting halfway across Australia is an achievement. Kimba, South Australia The small town of Kimba, deep in the South Australian Outback on the Eyre Peninsula, leaves cross country travellers in no doubt that they’ve reached halfway mark. If you don’t feel a photo coming on when[…]

The Big Malleefowl overlooking the Patchewollock Railway Station, Victoria

Only in OZ #22 – The Big Malleefowl, Patchewollock, Victoria

June 15, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Big Malleefowl, Big Things, Mallee, Outback, Patchewollock, Victoria, Wyperfeld National Park

The insatiable curiosity that leads me off the main road to explore an interesting sounding place or rumoured oddity isn’t always rewarded. But in the tiny town of Patchewollock, deep in the Victorian Mallee and just off the Hopetoun/Walpeup road, I hit paydirt. Big time! Unmarked on any tourist literature (that I’d seen) Patchewollock hosts one of the most bizarre[…]