Big Magpie
Carved with a chainsaw from a single piece of wood by Mark Ray, the Big Magpie is found in Simpson Park in Muswellbrook.
Carved with a chainsaw from a single piece of wood by Mark Ray, the Big Magpie is found in Simpson Park in Muswellbrook.
The Blue Heeler in Muswellbrook, New South Wales, stands 2 metres tall. Built in 2001, the town in the upper Hunter Valley prides itself on being Blue Heeler country. Feature image from Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BigBlueHeeler_Muswellbrook.jpg
The Big Murray Cod was built in celebration of the Lion Club’s 50th anniversary in 2015. The 6.5m tall fibreglass design was from a Lions Club Member, Peter Smith, who was inspired by a statue he saw in New Zealand. You can find the Big Murray Cod at the Redmond Park rest stop. There are … Read more
The Big Hand in Gawler is part of the War Memorial in Pioneer Park. The hand sculpture was designed and developed by artist Robert Hannaford AM, a renowned artist in South Australia. The RSL wanted something different for the War Memorial, commissioned Robert Hannaford in 2017. Robert Hannaford has produced several sculptures, in addition to … Read more
Roma is the home of a few big things. The Big Bolt and Nut is one of them. It sits on two supporting posts on the edge of the parking area for Banks and Bolts on Raglan St, Roma.
The Big Frog sits proudly at the front of Laidley Landscape Supplies, complete with a top hat. Four metres in length and 2.5 metres in height, the big green and yellow frog is as bright as it is big. There is no need to enter the property to view it. You can view the frog … Read more
The Largest Bottle Tree in Roma is a narrow leafed bottle tree, also known as the Queensland bottle tree. The name is derives from the bottle shaped appearance when the tree matures, between 5 to 8 years old. This tree was transplanted from a local property in 1927. Already mature when it was transplanted, it … Read more
The biggest peanut city in Australia is Kingaroy but it was without a big thing until November 2021 when the Big Peanut was revealed. It had been over 4 years since I last travelled through Kingaroy on a brown sign hunting trip. Big things were not something I was collecting at the time, but I … Read more
The Big Puzzle Pieces are three blocks of puzzle pieces at the front of Puzzles on Yabba in Imbil. Puzzles on Yabba is an assembly of puzzle exhibits that have been created over more than two years, started in 2016. On display is the world’s third largest puzzle by number of pieces, with 33,600 pieces, … Read more
The Big Pipis sits at the start of the Gorge Walk at Point Lookout on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah). The structure is of three pipis sitting upright on their side, one white, one sandy and the third a red-brown colour. They replace an old information board but unsure of exactly when, perhaps some time in … Read more