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Julia Volchkova One of the things I love about building this blog is the things I learn along the way. This silo in Rupanyup is the first silo created by a woman. I'm not much…

Grant Finck The Minyip BIG Seeds are yet another sculpture created by Grant Finck. For those unfamiliar with his name Mr Finck created the trio of dog sculptures found in  Warra…

The birth of the Rocking horse goes something like this! Wal Wilkinson owned a business and after a few failed attempts to attract tourists, he decided to spend a whopping $100,00…

Whale Sculpture For the longest time I assumed The Eucla Whale was just a random sculpture placed or found by locals and placed at the Eucla Roadhouse for tourism. I'll even…

The  ABC reports they harassed the local history officer for information regarding it's claim to fame; The BIG Rubbish Bin. Kalgoorie archives claim the BIG Bin was built to …

Cindy Poole 2013 Another popular item on the big things list is this rather playful Public Art sculpture in Esperance, WA Cindy Pool was commissioned in 2013 to construct her wha…

Stonehenge Australia's very own Stonehenge!  Except there's no mystery here as to where the stones came from or why they were placed the way they were. You'll be cha…

Amok Island Western Australia was the first state to paint a Silo. They currently have 6 painted silo's with Amok Island completing the second in Sept 2016. The Raventhorpe Si…

Wave Rock I tried reading into the cause of the rocks formation in order to write a snippet to accompany this post but I'm a simple creature and the jargon went right over my …

Redback Spider I won't go as far to say this is a BIG Thing. It's certainly larger than life sized but it doesn't deserve the title. This fun and whimsical garden is f…

Brown Dog Corrigan belongs to the dogs. Literally! They hold a Guinness World Record for parading dogs in utes through town as shown with it's BIG Black Dog tribute and they h…

BIG Black Dog I've never really understood someone's desire to obtain a world record for a frivolous reason but Corrigin drummed up an idea and had fun with it. 1527 Utes,…

BIG Tin Horse The Tin Horse Highway is littered with horse sculptures of all shapes and sized but none as BIG as this fella here. He's found in a bare field with a rather nice…

The Tin Horse Highway The Tin Horse Highway is a stretch of Kulin-Lake Grace road the locals have turned into a bit of a spectacle. Littering the drive to town you're going …

Evoka1 I almost started this post with 'this was my first Silo I'd ever photographed' but that would be a lie. Two years before on a Melb-Mildura road trip I passed th…

BIG Electric Shears Guess what Pingrup is well knows for!?! No, it's not sheep!! Yeah alright! It's sheep. So the site of the BIG Shears was once home to state wide compet…

BIG Shears These shears make an entry statement for the township of Ongerup. The first inhabitance to the town were sheep grazers and to this day along with wheat, barley and ca…

BIG Hand BIG Thing If there were a competition for nose picking the owner of this hand would win!  Hands down!  This post deserves a high five! This handsome sculpture lives in …

Dan O'Connell I really loved this strange and quirky mermaid.  It's currently located at the Bremer Bay resort but was originally made in Fremantle by Dan O'Connell ar…

Dog Rock One of the coolest painted rocks I've come across. There's not a great deal to tell you about this dog like rock except to park at the shopping center next door. …

Valley of the Giants I took HEAPS of photos here and not just of myself but as I came out of the parking lot after indulging at the gift shop I dropped my phone trying to juggle t…

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Rump on a Stump Spread eagled this sculpture really has you saying 'Holy cow' In 1999 Chicago (America) started a cow parade that saw a cow being painted, displayed then a…

'Timothee Vasse' by Russell Sheridan This is a really awesome sculpture. Not only has it produced one of the most epic photos I've ever took but it's created by Ru…

Busselton Jetty It was an interesting walk. 37 minutes elapsed between my first photo standing on the beach and my last selfie with a view down the peer. Dads and sons were fish…