We visited the Capital, Canberra, for a couple of days to visit 'Floriade', the biggest flower festival in Australia . The first picture was taken in Goulburn, on our journey there. This gargantuan sheep, or more precisely ram, 'The Big Merino' stands 15.2 metres tall and weighs in at 97 tonnes......did I hear someone mention 'mint sauce'?? You can actually go inside the ram and once upon a time you were able to climb to the top and look out of the rams eyes. Unfortunately, due to health & safety regulations, the council have stopped this practice for reasons known only to themselves............... spoilsports!!!!!! I have to mention at this stage that Australia has made a name for itself by placing strange statues in towns to attract tourism. A few examples are; the 'Big Prawn', 'Big Orange', and 'Big Potato' (the less said about the latter the better). What does the UK have in comparison? Big Ben, Stonehenge, the Cerne Giant etc. Just what on earth were we thinking of????
We arrived in Canberra and did a bit of sight seeing. This picture is of Parliament House.
Our next visit was to 'Telstra Tower', standing 195 metres tall. We took a lift to the viewing platform (where I dropped the camera, but thankfully not over the edge!) The picture shows views of Canberra from the Black Mountains and the shadow of the tower can clearly be seen.
Floriade was fabulous, it was a spectacular show with thousands of brightly coloured flowers made up to form p
ictures (though this could only be seen from above, so unless visiting in a helicopter you couldn't get the full effect) nevertheless, the colours were breath-taking! This years theme was 'Films that shaped our nation'. The pictures represented such films as 'Muriel's Wedding', ' Happy feet' and 'Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' to name but a few.
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