Australia has made almost a cult out of Supersizing things.
It all started in 1912 with Big Lizzie. An over-sized tractor shown here next to a Land Rover for an idea of scale.
Eventually, their love for the ridiculously big became an offshoot tourist industry.
Much like our Giant Ball of Twine or The World's Largest Fry-Pan in the States.
Now every state and territory in Australia has at least one LARGE statue to see. 150 of them scattered throughout.
Here are some.
Since we are in Western we will begin with
The Ram: Big Merino
also in Western
The Big Whale.
The Giant Mushroom
The Big Marron (Crayfish) aka as "Rex of the River"
The Big Croc
The Big Bobtail Lizard
and The Big Banana
Elsewhere
and continuing with the theme of larger than life
you'll find these
The Enormous Dugong
The "Larger Than Average" Strawberry
The Bigger than Keith Urban's Ego Guitar
...sorry folks, I'm just making these
names up now...they are
really just all called
The Big....
The Annoyingly Large Cockatoo
The "Fuck me, This is Bloody Big" Emu
The "If We Had Snow We Could
Make the Biggest
Pina Colada EVER"
Pineapple
The Ginormous Lobster That Ate Kingston Australia
The "I'm So Damed Lost
But Here's a Cold One, Mate"
Kangaroo
The Impossible to Say What it is...maybe an Easter Egg?
Giant Mango
The Freakishly Large Rocking Horse
(you should see the size of the baby)
Only Identified as Big Ned
Your Guess
is as Good as Mine
Enormous Tennis
Who's Got Big Balls?
Three Gigantic Cocks
That's No Bull
Oversized Bicycle
A Pelican Snatched my Baby
Murray the Codfish
The Big "Where the HELL is the Snow" Penguin
The Big Beer
The Truly Terrifying Wombat
The
"That's It...I'm Never Taking
A
A
Bubble Bath Again "
Rubber
Duckie"
Other oddities are
The World's Tallest Bin
The Big Camera
King Neptune
The Big Wheelbarrow
The Big Ant
The Big Avocado
The Big Axe
The Big Ayres Rock Sculpture
The Big Bench
The Big Bowl
The Big Cheese
Big Cherries
Big Flower
Big Spider
The Big Gold Pick and Pan
The Big Gold-Panner
The Big Hammer
The Big Headset
The Big Mosquito
The Big Oyster
The BiG Poo
(...okay..had to picture this one...)
Built in protest of the sewage proposition in
Kiama Australia
Now you know
There is also
The Big Potato
The Big Rabbit Trap
The Big Rocket
Rubick's Cube
Dice
Slurpee
Soldier
The World's Biggest Sundial
Swan
Turtle
Ugg Boots
Windmill
Wine Barrel
Wine Bottle
Snake
Canetoad
Deck Chair
Easel
Golf Ball
Gun
Marlin
Mower
Paperclip
Peanut
Peanut
Pie
Face it...if they can make it huge
they have it
There are even maps available that will route you to all 150 BIG Exhibits.
No idea how long a trip like that would take
but I am guessing a long long long
time!
For now we will say goodbye with a long last look at
The Big Red Elephant
And leave you with a semi-complete list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s_big_things
in case you want to see more
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