Wayne and Bette Brian 
The Big Hamburger is a permanent sculpture on Granite Island in Victor Harbor, South Australia. The hamburger is 1.30 metres without the hook and rope. The sculpture, named What A Tasty Looking Burger, is by artist James Dive and is part of the Sculpture Encounters on Granit Island. The sculptures in Sculpture Encounters are have … Read more
The Big Galah in South Australia’s Kimba sits at the ‘Halfway Across Australia Tourist Shop’. Geographically, Kimba is halfway across Australia between Sydney and Perth. Opening in 1993, the Big Galah is made of fibreglass sitting over a steel frame. It was modelled on the Galahs that are in the region by Robert Venning, taking … Read more
Australia’s biggest windmill is in Penong in South Australia, accompanied with a collection of windmills in the Windmill Museum. Built in 1932, the windmill was first used by the Commonwealth Railways at the McKinnon Dam to provide water for the railways at Kultanaby Railway siding. It was later purchased by Coondambo station in 1977 and … Read more
The Eyre Highway between Balladonia and Caiguna in Western Australia is the longest straight stretch of road in Australia, at a long 146.6 kilometres or 90 miles. The eastern end of the 90 Mile Straight is also the location and name of Hole 11 of the Nullarbor Golf Links Course , the world’s longest golf … Read more
The Eyre Highway between Balladonia and Caiguna in Western Australia is the longest straight stretch of road in Australia, at a long 146.6 kilometres or 90 miles. It would be the longest in the world if it were not for Highway 10 in Saudi Arabia is not quite twice as long at 162 miles or … Read more
Skylab is a space research laboratory from the 1970s that crashed leaving a trail of debris from Esperance through Balladonia and up to Zanthus in Western Australia. Skylab was America’s first experimental space station, launched on the last Saturn V rocket. Its objectives were to prove that humans can live and work in space over … Read more
The Earthquake Site in Meckering, Western Australia, is the ruins of a stone farmhouse that was flattened by the Meckering Earthquake in 1968. The weather was really poor so we didn’t travel all the way to the ruins, stopping at the Earthquake Fault Line. The ‘Salisbury’ homestead was built in 1904 and flattened by the … Read more
The Earthquake Fault Line is a short distance from Meckering in South Australia and on the way to the Earthquake Site. The fault line is of the Meckering Fault Line which had a major earthquake in 1968. The earthquake is the most destructive that has occurred in Australia, destroying nearly 100 buildings and felt hundreds … Read more
Australia is fortunate to have no major fault lines but the Meckering Earthquake is an example that it is not immune from experiencing seismic activity. The Meckering Earthquake occurred in 1968 on the morning of the 14th of October. It was the most destructive earthquake recorded in Australia, destroying close to 100 buildings in Meckering … Read more
Fremantle has a long maritime history as a major port in Western Australia. Along with the Shipwrecks Museum, the Maritime Museum provides a glimpse of the importance of maritime industry to the coastal city. The museum is made up of a number of galleries with various aspects of Western Australia’s maritime relationship. One of the … Read more
