Roadside Kitsch – Finally

We have now ridden over 3000 miles in three states in Australia and never once seen a stupid corny “roadside attraction” … until today.

If we had driven 3000 miles around America, I can guarantee we would have seen a statue of Paul Bunyan with an axe, or a man made of mufflers, or a huge exterminator guy with a top hat and a hammer, or the world’s largest ketchup bottle, or a motel made of wigwams, or foamhenge (yes this exists) … well you get my point. There are hundreds of kitsch attractions that try to get you to pull over and buy something – and maybe try to prove that bad taste can be high art.

No so in Australia until we got to Kingston on the South Australia coast where there is a 50 foot lobster and “convention centre” … which is currently for sale to some enterprising new business owner.

The day was made even more bizarre by the discovery of a herd of grazing camels on the way tp Robe which is a delightful little sailing port with the bluest water I have ever seen.

Let’s call this day a strange version of “surf and turf”.