July Holidays - Wyndham & surrounds

Wyndam is a bit of a funny place. When I visited 20 years ago a chap proudly made the claim that Wyndam had the "largest Boab tree in captivity". Over the years I have often pondered this claim and wondered exactly how one keeps a tree in captivity. I eventually came to the conclusion that I had misheard the bloke or he was an idiot.

Fast forward to 2011. I'm having a chat to a chain smoking gravel voiced crone in the Wyndham second hand shop. She seemed pretty sensible. Making polite conversation I enquire after her swollen and bandaged toe. She replies that now Wyndham has the biggest toe in captivity as well as the biggest Boab in captivity! Remarkable.

Massive excitement over the big crocodile in Wyndham. First big thing since the crappy big camera down south.

There is some pretty nice scenery around Wyndham too.

BIG THINGS

No trip around Australia would be complete without a tour of BIG THINGS. We haven’t actively sought any BIG THINGS because experience tells us that they are universally pretty crap places to visit, but it has been disappointing to report that we have only been to four BIG THINGS (that’s only one per month in a county renowned for its BIG THINGS).

Our first BIG THING was the BIG CRAYFISH at Kingston SA. Dane was tremendously impressed – mainly because he is tied on the back of the van and dosen’t get to see much.

The BIG KANGAROO at Bordertown was very exciting after the monotony of the Nullabour trip, but would probably struggle in any other setting.

I was very impressed with the Wagin (WA) BIG RAM’S MASSIVE TESTICLES.

And undoubtedly the worst big thing was the BIG CAMERA, a very tired attempt at a BIG THING at Kellerberrin WA. Hopefully the BIG THING community will lift its game and show us something truly memorable before we get home.