Friday, 28 September 2007

Kingston town

Kingston town, the best fish and chips anywhere, the best you will eat. I guarantee it. That's not why Istopped there, but I don't regret doing. The fish had been caught that morning by the cook's father, in a boat by line. The thing had barely stopped twitching when it was cooked. The chips were from locally grown spuds, and they were cooked in fresh oil. The slad was local. So were the locals. They like things on poles in the bush, Kev's Kollecxtion is anything with an engine, tractors a speaciality, tanks, Centurion, are good too. Look elsewhere and you find a statue to another spcies which is a speciality of the area.
This thing is one of the original biggies, that now populate the Australia countryside. Why is ablog on trees, well I was just passing...
This monster was conceived and designed to be a model sitting on top of a car, to be used for advertising. Problem was someone either misread the measurements, a NASA moment, or didn't write them down right. So inches got to be yards, and it is now about 15m high. 2 metres is about the second joint on the front legs. They call it larry and it needs a lot of money to be restored. It broke when they moved it across the street. That would have been a sight for sore eyes.

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