This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a load of words to distract your interior monologue from whatever dystopian stew it is in. These Tranquillusionist episodes are deliberately boring! If you want ones which are thought-provoking rather than thought-quelling, go to theallusionist.org and check out the normal episodes - also go there if you do want more tranquillusionist, just hit the tab at the top that says ‘Tranquillusionist’ and prepare to be lulled.
Today I will be reading a list of Australia’s Big Things, which I’ve seen several of - most recently the Big Wave, the Big Purse and the very controversial Big Potato - because I’m on tour in Australia. Come and see the live show - before you get too tranquil, visit theallusionist.org/events for dates and tickets to the remaining shows in Australia and the upcoming ones in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Now: compiling this list of Big Things proved to be surprisingly complicated and not without its controversies. There’s no definitive list of the Big Things, and what constitutes a Big Thing specifically? Some of them are sculptures. Some of them are essentially a three-dimensional billboard. Some are buildings. Some are playground features. Some are just…there to be a big thing. Some have been taken down. But I didn’t want to have to adjudicate on what is a Big Thing and what isn’t, so just put in as many as I could find and confirm the existence of, even if it is not continuing.
Not included because it’s in Utah not Australia, but once I once took a detour to see the world’s largest blender in Orem, Utah, and it’s a three-storey blender that acts as the entrance to the headquarters of a blender company. But it didn’t have any blades. So is it a blender? Or is it just a jug? I appreciate the disadvantages to having real giant blades at the entrance to your office building, but maybe they could have dressed up the revolving door to look the part.
Anyway, just to say the whole Big Things thing is fraught. But we’re not fraught here, we’re tranquil! Here we go with Australia’s Big Things, ordered by state alphabetically.
The Big Things of the Australian Capital Territory:
The Big Acorns.
The Big Bogong Moths.
The Big Bunyip.
The Big Casuarina Pods.
The Big Coins.
The Big Galahs. (Galahs are a cool-looking pink and grey bird.)
The Big Kangaroo and Joey.
The Giant Mushroom - eight metres wide, four metres tall.
The Big Parcels.
The Big Pears.
The Big Pool Ball. It’s a purple number 2 and measures 1.8 metres in diameter.
The Big Powerful Owl - that is the famous Penis Owl of Canberra. It says it is eight metres tall, but that depends on if you’re measuring it when it’s cold.
The Big Vase, full of neon blooms.
The Big Things of New South Wales:
The Big Aboriginal Fish.
The Big Ant - species: bull ant.
The Big Ant - species: dinosaur ant.
The Big Apple.
The Big Apple that I went past the other day and it is SO SMALL, how dare it. The Big Ant could crush it.
The Big Apple.
The Big Apple.
The Big Apple Pie. Yeah, use up some of the many big apples in this list.
The Big Avocado.
The Big Axe, outside a firewood shop.
The Big Axe. A previous version was destroyed by ants! So if you were wondering whether you’d rather fight one giant axe or some regular-sized ants, now you know which is stronger.
The Big Banana, the second oldest Big Thing in Australia. The oldest? A matter of dispute that I refuse to put my big feet into!
The Big Barrel.
The Big Bass.
The Big Bee and Flowers.
The Big Bee Hive.
The Big Beer Can, which would hold 22,000 litres of beer. Or indeed other liquids. That’s how volumes tend to work.
The Big Bench.
The Big Bicycle.
The Big Billy Can.
The Big Blue Heeler, a tribute to the cattle dog.
The Big Bogan.
The Big Boomerang.
The Big Boot.
The Big Bottle, of Cabernet Sauvignon.
The Big Bottle, of Shiraz. There are some more big bottles - can’t keep track
The Big Bower Bird.
The Big Bowl, as in it’s not a bowl for eating but a ball for lawn bowls.
The Big Bread Clip, made of more than 14,000 repurposed bread clips.
The Big Bull.
The Big Bullets.
The Big Bunch of Bananas.
The Big Can, outside a tavern, which also has a car on the roof.
The Big Cassette Player.
The Big Cauliflower.
The Big Chainsaw.
The Big Cheese. But it’s just a water tank painted to barely look like a cheese. Disappointing.
The Big Cherries.
The Big Cherry.
The Big Chook, outside the Big Chook Egg Farm.
Another Big Chook.
The Big Cod.
The Big Deck Chair.
The Big Diplodocus - AKA Ploddy.
The Big Discus, this 7-metre-wide art piece called ‘Discobolus’ is a tribute to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, but also is made to look like a CD-Rom.
The Big Dog.
The Big Dog on a Tuckerbox.
The Big Easter Egg.
The Big Egg in a Nest.
The Big Eight Ball.
The Big Elephant.
The Big Elephants.
The Big Emu, named Stanley.
The Big Filleted Murray Cod.
The Big Fish. It has a top hat and cane.
The Big Fishing Rod.
The Big Flowers.
The Big Football.
The Big Frilled-Neck Lizard.
The Big Fruit Bowl.
Another Big Fruit Bowl - but a better one.
The Big Funnel Web Spider. Its fangs are 3.5 metres long, and as a whole it claimed the Guinness World Record for world’s largest spider sculpture. What’re you going to do about it, Louise Bourgeois?
The Big Generator.
The Big Glasses.
The Big Golden Dog.
The Big Golden Guitar.
The Big Gold Panner.
The Big Gold Pick and Pan.
The Big Golf Ball.
The Big Golf Ball and Driver.
The Big Golf Ball and Monkey.
The Big Guide Dog.
The Big Guitar - it is playable!
The Big Hammer.
The Big Hardware Man.
The Big Hat. Whose hat? Poet Banjo Paterson’s hat.
The Big Headphones, which play local musicians.
The Big Hotdog.
The Big Joint.
The Big Kangaroo and Emu.
The Big Kewpie Doll.
The Big Knight, that’s a 6.5m tall knight in armour guarding the Macadamia Castle, a palace of amusements including minigolf, animals, tiny train, and a display about the history of macadamia nuts.
The Big Koala.
Another Big Koala.
The Big Koala Family (big in size, not numbers).
The Big Kookaburra.
The Big Lamb.
The Big Lawn Bowl.
The Big Lips.
The Big Lizard.
The Big Lizard, the one called Larry, who lives in a playground and its tongue is a slide.
The Big Matchsticks.
The Big Merino.
The Big Miner - he’s called Garry.
The Big Miner's Lamp.
The Big Mobile Phone. This one’s gone now. It still had buttons and an aerial, so not meant for the modern world.
The Big Mosquito, Ossie the Mossie, whose eyes light up at night.
The Big Motorbike.
The Big Muffler.
The Big Murray Cod.
The Big Murray Cod.
The Big Oranges, outside Orange World. Inside are some big orange slices!
The Big Oyster.
The Big Paintbrush.
The Big Pavlova. It’s a former pavlova factory that used to be painted to look like a pink and white pavlova, now it just looks like a derelict pavlova factory.
The Big Peach.
The Big Peg.
The Big Pencils.
The Big Pharoah, outside the Edge Hotel Motel, where you can eat at Tutankhamun’s Bistro.
The Big Pig.
The Big Pineapple.
The Big Platypus.
The Big Poo, built to protest the water company’s refusal to reuse waste water in the area.
The Big Potato - recently voted Australia’s Worst Big Thing. I object! Yes it may look as much like a big turd as a potato, but it’s way better than the Big Things that aren’t very big. It’s definitely very big. Like a single storey house shaped like a potato. Or a turd.
The Big Prawn, but not the famous one.
The Big Prawn, the famous one - holds the record as the world’s largest artificial prawn. 30,000 times larger than a real prawn.
The Big Rabbit Trap. It’s on the roof of a pub and is about as big as the pub. It is quite an ominous look.
The Big Rocket.
The Big Roller Skate.
The Big Rubik’s Cube (unsolved).
The Big Saddle, outside Saddleworld.
The Big Sherrin Football.
The Big Slurpee, eleven metres high - imagine the brain freeze from that quantity of slurpee! No wonder they took it down; too dangerous.
The Big Snail.
The Big Soldier.
The Big Spider, crawling down the side of a water tower ready to climb into your nightmares.
The Big Spindle.
The Big Strawberry.
The Big Sundial - that’s the world’s biggest sundial.
The Big Swagman and Dog. They were sat together but the swagman has since moved away.
The Big Swan.
The Big Sydney Harbour Bridge. It’s much smaller than the actual Sydney Harbour Bridge, but it’s certainly a big thing to put outside your suburban car dealership.
The Big Tap.
The Big Teapot.
The Big Tennis Racquet. Also includes a big tennis ball.
The World’s Biggest Tennis Racquet.
The Big Triceratops.
The Big Trout.
The Big Trout.
The Big Trout! Go big trout or go home trout.
The Big Tyre.
The Big Ugg Boots.
The Big Ukuleles.
The Big Uluru. Cmon, this is definitely the small Uluru, being one fortieth the size of the real Uluru. It also burned down, which the real big Uluru will not.
The Big Watering Can.
The Big Whale.
The Big Wicket. Which also has a very big cricket bat stuck across it - pretty sure that’s a bad move to play, but anyway, it’s to commemorate the home town of legendary cricketer Donald Bradman.
The Big Windchimes.
The Big Windmill.
The Big Wine Barrell. It contains wine tastings!
The Big Wine Bottles.
The Big Wine Cask. It contains a water purification plant for a winery. It has also been repainted so it’s no longer a big wine cask, it’s just a boring building containing a water purification plant. Terrible makeover, Jesus would never.
The Big Things of Northern Territory:
Anmatjere Man.
Anmatjere Woman and Child.
The Big Barramundi.
The Big Battery, AKA Captain Concrete. If you insist.
The Big Beer Can, a can of XXXX Gold Lager.
The Big Books - they’re installed outside the Alice Springs library, a row of eight books by Neville Shute, after whom the library is named.
The Big Boomerang and Spears.
The Big Bowling Pin.
The Big Boxing Crocodile.
The Big Buffalo, known as Lefty because one testicle is bigger than the other. As they so often are! Lefty used to be grey, but was painted pink so he’d stand out more in front of a grey building.
The Big Chinese Dragon.
The Big Dinosaur - a Brachiosaurus, known as Big Kev.
The Big Echidna. I love an echidna, the spiny montreme with the pointy snout, but I’m not such a big fan of the Big Echidna, which lives at a restaurant and looks a bit haunted.
The Big Fish.
The Big Frilled-Neck Lizard.
The Big Frogs.
The Big Gold Nugget.
The Big Hand, which has a small hand protruding from the tip of the index finger.
The Big Jumping Crocodile.
The Big Owl.
The Big Stockwhip, located at the entrance of Mick’s Whips and Leather Goods.
The Big Stubby, and next to it is a big Pink Panther holding its own stubby.
The Big Turtle.
The Big VB Can.
The Big Wine Bottle.
The Big Things of Queensland:
The Big Aboriginal Woman Kowaha & Her Baby, to mark the massacre of 200 Aboriginal people in 1867. The baby depicted in the sculpture survived and still has descendents living in the area.
The Big Ammonite.
The Big Apple, which started life as a Granny Smith, got made over into a Royal Gala.
Another Big Apple.
The Big Ball.
The Big Banana.
Banana the Bullock, a beloved yellow bullock of the mid-19th century. When he died, he was buried in a gully that became known as Banana Gully, then when a town was built it was named Banana after the bullock too. They really loved that bullock.
The Big Barramundi.
Another Big Barramundi.
Another Big Barramundi.
The Big Barrel.
The Big Beehive, at Superbee Honeyworld.
The Big Bilby. A bilby is a marsupial with very long ears.
The Big Blue Boot.
The Big Bolt and Nut.
The Big Boomerang.
The Big Boomerangs.
The Big Boot.
The Big Bowl. It’s a beautifully turned wooden bowl.
The Big Bowling Pin.
The Big Brolga. A brolga is a leggy wetland bird.
The Big Brolgas and Snakes. Brolgas eat snakes, seems rude to put them together
The Big Bulldog.
The Big Bulls. The number of big bulls has increased to seven. But pranksters keep stealing their testicles, so would that make them the big steers? The Big Oxes? Anyway, stop it, it’s mean.
The Big Bundaberg Barrel, which contains an exhibit about Bundaberg ginger beer, and a taste test.
The Big Bundaberg Rum Bottle. That’s just a photo op, no museum inside. There are at least two other Big Bundaberg Rum Bottles in Queensland.
The Big Camel.
The Big Can.
The Big Cane Toad, named Buffy.
The Big Captain Cook - recently taken down, BYE.
The Big Carp.
The Big Cassowary.
The Big Chair.
The Big Child. It’s a many-metres-tall child doing a cartwheel.
The Big Cicada.
The Big Coal Loader.
The Big Coathanger.
The Big Cockatoo.
The Big Corn Cob.
The Big Cow, seven times bigger than an Ayshire cow.
The Big Crab.
A different Big Crab, this one a mud crab.
The Big Crocodile - there are three Big Crocodiles in Queensland, the biggest is 8.6 metres long.
The Big Crocodile Head.
The Big Cup.
The Big Deck Chair.
The Big Dinosaur, a triceratops built for the 1998 Apple and Grape Festival and nicknamed Fruitisforus.
The Big Director’s Chair.
The Big Dugong. I’m very fond of the sirenian sea mammals.
The Big Eagle, also known as the Rusty Chook.
The Big Easel, with a big replica of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower painting on it.
The Big Feather.
The Big Fish.
The Big Fishing Reel.
The Big Fishing Rod.
The Big Frilled-Neck Lizard.
The Big Frog. There are at least two Big Frogs, but at least one has a top hat.
The Big G. It’s a big letter G.
The Big Gilbert’s Dragon. Also known as a Shaky Paws Lizard.
The Big Gingerbread Man.
The Big Giraffe.
The Big Girl and Her Bear.
The Big Gold Nugget.
The Big Golden Gumboot. It has a huge frog on the side and a whole spiral staircase within. It’s based on the golden gumboot trophy awarded to the town with most rainfall each year. Which Tully, the site of the Big Golden Gumboot, often wins, with more than 150 days of rain per year.
The Big Golf Ball.
The Big Guitar. It’s a 25-metre Gibson Les Paul at the Hard Rock Cafe.
The Big Hand Cane Cutters.
The Big Hand Holding a Big Remote.
The Big Hands.
The Big Harp.
The Big Hat.
The Big Jam Jars, out the front of the Jamworks shop.
The Big Jim Beam Can - it’s mixed with cola, is that ok?
The Big Kangaroo.
The Big Kookaburra.
The Big Kronosaurus, a marine dinosaur whose fossils have been found in Queensland. The kronosaurus was thought to be very vicious, so was named after the god Chronos, who ate his own children.
The Big Lawn Bowl. As before, it’s a ball not a bowl. And a ball for bowls not a bowling ball. Keep up.
The Big Macadamia Nut.
The Big Magpie and Nest.
The Big Mandarin.
The Big Mango. It’s on the same plot as the Big Corn Cob, but they don’t look like they get on.
The Big Mango - a different one, with a little green ant on it. In 2014 it was stolen as part of a publicity stunt by an international chain of restaurants which I will not name because they should not be rewarded for bad behaviour. But they did try to redeem themselves by giving the town a smaller Big Mango so count that too, the Small Big Mango.
The Big Mango Man. He has a bow tie. It’s weird to see such a neckless fruit being made to wear a bow tie.
The Big Map of Australia - this is a beautiful big art piece made from scrap metal.
The Big Marlin.
Matilda the Kangaroo, the 13-metre-tall mascot from the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane.
The Big Meat Ant. It’s a type of ant, not an ant made out of meats.
The Big Meat Pie.
The Big Merino.
The Big Milk Can, outside the Maleny Cheese Factory. The sign for which is shaped like a cheese wedge.
The Big Miner.
The Big Mower.
The Big Muffler.
The Big Murray Cod.
The Big Muttaburra Dinosaur.
The Big Ned Kelly.
The Big Orange.
The Big Orange that’s bigger and is part of an orange festival every other year.
The Big Paperclip.
The Big Peanut.
The Big Pen. It lives near the Big Bowl and is made out of a tree trunk.
The Big Pineapple.
The Big Pelican. It started life as a parade float.
The Big Pick, Shovel and Sieve - a tribute to the sapphire-mining industry in the town of Sapphire.
The Big Poinsettia.
The Big Pterodactyl.
The Big Pumpkin.
The Big Question Mark.
The Big Redback Spider. If you don’t have a spider phobia already, this will give you one.
The Big Red Chair.
The Big Red Elephant.
The Big Rig.
The Big Rooster.
The Big Rose. Putting the big into the town of Biggenden.
The Big Rosella - the fruit not the bird.
The Big Rum Bottle.
The Big Sapphire.
The Big Sapphire Ring.
The Big Sardine Can.
The Big Sausage King - alright, insecure much? The Big Sausage King used to stand on the roof of Gray’s Modern Meat Mart, squeezing sauce onto himself and holding a bottle of mustard in the other hand. Yes the Sausage King has hands. But! In 2010 the Big Sausage King was abducted and his owner offered a reward of $500 and 10kg of sausages for his safe return. Four local boys received the reward, each becoming a quarter Sausage King, when eleven months after his disappearance they found him, vandalised and dumped in a quarry. The Big Sausage King was lovingly restored, but with permanent scars - his hand and mustard bottle never came home.
The Big Scout Hat.
The Big Scrabble Tiles - they spell out ‘imagine’ with the second ‘I’ missing.
The Big Shark.
The Big Shark Head.
The Big Shears.
The Big Shell.
The Big Slouch Hat.
The Big Snake - a carpet snake.
The Big Soccer Ball.
The Big Spanner. “Get your nuts tightened at the Big Spanner!” it says.
The Big Spinning Top.
The Big Spider - a silver orb spider named Spinderella.
The Big Spider - this one’s a golden orb spider named Oralia.
The Big Steak. It looks overcooked to me.
The Big Stethoscope.
The Big Stockman.
The Big Strawberry.
And another Big Strawberry.
The Big Stubby, made of thousands of bottles - alas it is no longer with us, because it was too tall for local planning regulations.
The Big Sugar Cane Stick.
The Big Sunflowers.
The Big Surfboard.
The Big Tap.
The Big Teepee.
The Big Tennis Racquet.
The Big Termite.
The Big Thermometer.
The Big Thongs. Outside of Australia you might know them as flipflops.
The Big Toad.
The Big Truck.
The Big Turtle.
The Big Watermelon.
The Big Whale.
Another Big Whale that is rising up through the ground!
The Big Whiting.
The Big Wombat. Called William.
The Big XXXX Beer Can. It’s a water tower painted to look like a beer can.
The Big Yellow Belly Fish.
The Big Things of South Australia:
The Big Ant.
The Australian Farmer.
The Big Bee.
The Big Blade - from a wind turbine.
The Big Bob-tail Lizard.
The Big Cherries.
The Big Church Block Bottle, a ten-metre wine bottle covered with recycled corks.
The Big Dice.
The Big Dunlop Tyre.
The Big Galah.
The Big Golf Ball.
The Big Hat.
The Big Hills Hoist - that’s one of those rotary clothes lines, I didn’t know they were also called Hills hoists, which is an eponym,
The Big Kangaroo.
The Big Lobster, known as Larry.
The Big Miner.
The Big Olive - well there are two, one green, one black.
The Big Orange. It is four storeys tall and contains several rooms, but has been in financial trouble in recent years. Rescue plans include turning it into a big golf ball or a strip club.
The Big Oyster.
The Big Pelican. Like the Queensland Big Pelican it was originally a parade float, for Mardi Gras in 1979. There’s also another Big Pelican in South Australia, carved from a single tree.
The Big Pigeon.
The Big Ram.
The Big Rocking Horse. Does it rock? No. But it’s eighteen metres tall, so probably a bit scary if it did.
The Big Santa.
The Big Scotsman, known as Scotty, and made by the same sculptor as Larry the Big Lobster.
The Big Slouch Hat.
The Big Snake.
The Big Spriggina floundersi - that’s a type of flatworm.
The Big Teddy Bear, made of hay bales.
The Big Whale.
The Big Winch.
The Big Windmill.
The Big Wombat.
The Big Yabby. A yabby is a kind of crustacean.
The Big Things of Tasmania:
The Big Apple - as is obligatory.
The Big Cherry.
The Big Coffee Pot.
The Big Fork, a gardening fork rather than an eating fork.
The Big Penguin, in the town of Penguin, home not only to this three-metre-tall penguin but to the world’s smallest species of penguin.
The Big Platypus.
The Big Rock Lobster.
The Big Slide Rule.
The Big Spud.
The Big Tasmanian Devil.
The Big Thumbs Up.
The Big Wicket.
The Big Things of Victoria:
The Big Abalone.
The Big Apple.
Another Big Apple.
The Big Bandicoot.
The Big Bee.
The Big Beer Glass.
The Big Bees.
The Big Bell Flowers.
The Big Bigeyed Scad Fish.
The Big Blue Angelfish.
The Big Blue Wren.
The Big Bogong Moth.
The Big Boomerang.
Another Big Boomerang.
The Big Bottle.
The Big Bowling Pin.
The Big Brake Shoes.
The Big Brussel Sprout.
The Big Bulldog.
The Big Cherry.
The Big Chicken.
The Big Cigar - that’s in a town called Churchill and they made a big replica of Winston Churchill’s cigar. Winston Churchill used to wear a green velvet onesie, where’s the Big Green Velvet Onesie?
The Big Clownfish.
The Big Coffee Maker.
The Big Cows.
The Big Crab.
The Big Crayfish.
The Big Cricket Bats.
The Big Cricket Stumps. But no big cricket ball?
The Big Dead Fish, flopped on the roof of the Fishy Pub in Fish Creek.
The Big Dining Room Suite.
The Big Dolphinfish.
The Big Dulux Paint Tins, outside the Dulux paint factory.
The Big Dung Beetles & Cockroaches.
The Giant Earthworm. This was part of a museum dedicated to the Giant Gippsland Earthworms - which included exhibits where visitors could crawl through a replica worm burrow and a worm stomach (I assume a replica?). The museum and giant earthworm are alas no longer open for business.
The Big Egg.
The Big Emus.
The Fairfield Industrial Dog Object, which is a large wooden dog sculpture, with a canine-appropriate acronym.
The Big Fish.
The Big Flower. What kind of flower? Gerbera.
The Big Garden Pot.
The Big Giant’s Chair.
The Big Gnome.
The Big Golf Ball.
The Big Hand.
The Big Hens. The three hens were put on the site of what used to be Happy Hens Egg World, an egg-themed tourist attraction with slides and a Big Egg, and tours of the factory farm. After many protests and rescue missions by Animal Liberation Victoria, Happy Hens Egg World closed down.
The Big Koala.
The Giant Koala. Just so you know it’s bigger than the Big Koala.
The Big Lizard.
The Big Lizzie - that’s a big tractor. But it’s the actual big tractor, not a sculpture of a big tractor, so I’m not sure that counts.
The Big Lotus Flower.
The Big Mallee Bull.
The Big Mallee Fowl.
The Big Milk Carton.
The Big Milkshake at the entrance of Cheese World. There are two more big milkshakes inside.
The Big Milkshake containers.
The Big Miner.
The Giant Murray Cod.
The Big Ned Kelly, six metres tall.
The other Big Ned Kelly, seven metres tall and all red.
ANOTHER Big Ned Kelly, sculpted by chainsaw out of a cedar tree.
The Big Needles - sewing through some big cloth.
The Big Octopus.
The Big Orange.
The Big Peach.
The Big Pelican.
The Big Petition - this is a sculpture commemorating an 1891 petition for women’s suffrage in the state of Victoria, but the sculptural petition is only 20 metres long, whereas the original one was 260. So the sculpture is really a miniature.
The Big Pheasant.
The Big Plate - comes with big chopsticks and a big spoon and fork.
The Giant Pocket Watch.
The Giant Potatoes and Forks - this one’s amazing, it’s a huge plate with five potatoes made out of boulders, with three metre high red metal forks sticking out of them.
The Big Public Purse.
The Big Rabbit.
The Big Rolling Pin. It really rolls!
The Big Russian Matryoshka Dolls.
The Big Seat.
The Big Seed Pods.
The Big Shark.
The Big Skipping Girl.
The Big Smoke. It’s a chimney at a tobacco threshing factory, painted to look like a cigarette.
The Big Soup Can.
The Big Sphinx.
The Big Strawberry. Six metres tall!
The Big Tap.
The Big Teapot.
The Big Titanic. Again, smaller than the real Titanic. But, not sitting at the bottom of the ocean, so it’s not just size that matters.
The Big Turnbuckle.
The Big Watermelon - who took that big bite out of it?
The Big Wave - I passed this the other day, it looked a bit like a partially melted bus shelter.
The Big Wheat - that’s three big wheat stalks.
The Big Wheat and Seeds.
The Big Whale.
The Big Wine Bottle.
The Big Wool Bales.
The Big Yabby.
The Big Things of Western Australia:
The Big Apple - yeah another one. It is big though!
The Big Banana.
The Big Bert Bolle Barometer - the world’s biggest barometer! It works!
The Big Bobtail.
The Big Camera - it’s a camera museum!
The Big Chainsaw.
The Big Cricket Bat.
The Big Crocodile.
The Big DNA Staircase. It’s a staircase shaped like a DNA helix rather than trying to look a lot like one, but ok.
The Big Dog.
The Giant Dray - that’s a wagon stacked with boxes of wool to you.
The Big Gumnuts.
The Big King Neptune.
The Leewin Way Whale.
The Big Lobster.
The Big Lollipop.
The Big Marron - marron are freshwater crayfish local to Western Australia.
The Big Mushroom.
The Big Orange.
The Big Periodic Table - the world’s largest periodic table! Take that, big periodic table in Spain, this one is four times bigger, at 662 square metres.
The Big Prawn.
The Big Rainbow - or containbow because it’s made from shipping containers.
The Giant Ram.
The Big Shears.
The Big Tin Dog, Rusty. I hear a rumour that Rusty is getting a mate, Rosie.
The Big Wheelbarrow.
The World’s Tallest Bin, eight metres tall, built in 1980 to remind people to keep the town tidy. Except it’s so tall nobody can get rubbish into it.
Those were Australia’s Big Things, some of them gone, some of them not that big, but all of them things. Apologies to any that I missed, unless they are apples or golf balls.
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