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Friday photos #10
Here’s a random selection of photos from our #adventuredownunder that tickled my fancy! Next week I’ll be reverting to one of the Friday Photo Challenges.
Australia has lots of big structures, one of the most colourful is The Big Mango (header above). You may recall I’ve also seen the Big Sheep, Big Lobster, Big Crab, Big Banana, Big Pineapple and Big Cow! This giant fruit only sprouted up in 2002. next to Bowen’s tourist information centre and pays tribute to the prosperous mango orchards in the area. Made of fiberglass, it cost A$90,000 when it was originally built, joining the ranks of Australia’s giant roadside attraction collection. Weighing around seven tons it may even be the largest mango in the world and is a proud reminder that in Australia, there is nothing that can’t be turned into huge a fibreglass statue.
This I am reliably informed is a humpback whale which I was happy to view from way above as opposed to beside! Adult whales range in length from 12–16 m (39–52 ft) and weigh around 25–30 metric tons (28–33 tons). They feed in polar waters but migrate to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth. We had a number of such sightings while flying over the Great Barrier Reef and Whitsundays.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, this grasshopper about 10 cm (4 inches) in length was gracing the wall of our unit in Airlie Beach.
Just what every bike rider needs, a bike station with a pump and every possible tool for changing punctured tyres to fixing deraileurs! Every country should have these dotted about the place along with plenty of public toilets and water points.
Australians love their pies! According to Mr Google, they each eat an average of 12 meat pies a year, that’s 270 million pies! I thought that this pie was wrong on so many levels but my two sisters (pictured below), who admit their favourite dish is spag bol, said they’d love to try one. Be my guest girls!
Cool!
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Nice!
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Thanks Saania
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AH, Springtime in Australia ! Great photos.
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Love your photos! The nearest thing we have to meat pies I guess would be a burrito. Yum
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Love the bug!!! All these are great.
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Thanks Rosemarie
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Great collection of pics Sheree! I like meat pies but that one doesn’t sound so appetizing!😂😁
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I agree!
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Is that a giant mango? My favorite! 😍
That grasshopper is gonna make me jump out of my skin. hahaha 😂
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It is a giant mango but that’s not a giant grasshopper!
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Really? I stared good at it and it looks like one… besides, you also wrote it, which confirms my initial thought 😑 are you joking around? 😭
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It was about 4 inches long.
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Wow, you’ve seen so many of the giant things! I would love to see the photos!!!
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If you’ve read all my posts on my various trips to Australia, you’ll see most of them.
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Thanks, I’ll give this a go! I was gonna write a post about the Giant Things. Would it be okay if I used some of your photos? Properly linked and all, of course
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Yeah, no problem.
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Fantastic, thank you heaps Sheree! x
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I’m going ba ck to classic, too. A good set, but Wp still won’t let me like it
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I don’t know what to suggest Derrick
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I’ll just put that I like it in the comments 🙂
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I’m going back to classic too, but WP still won’t let me like it
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It is great.
Thank you for following my articles well.
Best wishes
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Pleasure
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You are welcome.
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Beautiful pictures! The giant mango looks magical! And the Grasshopper looks cool too. Do you like insects? And to see a whale… Wow! Thank you for taking us along too. 😃
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It all depends on the insect. If they don’t bother me, I won’t bother them. Have you finished your exams?
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Oh yes! 😃 They have been quite good, except Maths. I need to work harder this term… But from Tuesday, we are having a vacation so I can stay in blogging world for long! Very excited about it… 😄
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Tx for the grins. Hmmm… chunky spaghetti pie — don’t think that’ll be a trend around here, tho one never knows 🙂
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They have some strange pie fillings in Oz
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We don’t eat spaghetti pies but we do a baked spaghetti without a crust. They look like they enjoyed it…lol
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