Strange Fruit

I rather like whimsical, fruity roadside attractions.

This is the The Big Pineapple in Woombye which is located on the heavenly Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. It's actually situated on some kind of macadamia nut farm/animal nursery/wildlife sanctuary/restaurant combo.

And, in case the big pineapple doesn't quite satisfy your whim for whimsy, you can tour the farm and surrounding rainforest in a Nutmobile! Could anything be better than that?

(Photo of The Big Pineapple from The Sydney Morning Herald.)

This is a quokka

Australia is full of odd little creatures. The first European settlers must've been totally unnerved by them. I reckon the oddest and cutest little creature is the quokka. It's like a small, round, plump kangaroo and lurks only on Rottnest Island off the coast near Perth in Western Australia. The island was named Rottnest (i.e. "rat nest") by the unnerved Europeans who were clearly so freaked out they couldn't tell the difference between a cute little quokka and a rat.

(Image of quokka with a wise and knowing look helping itself to a bit of old leaf from the Australian Broadcasting Commission.)

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I love the strangeness of the world. Cute, ugly, old, new, seemingly ordinary or definitely odd, this is a chronicle of my observations of quirkdom.

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