This was advertised as a flower and garden show. The garden part was was a large part of the show. There were vendors selling chicken coops, self contained planting systems, fertilizers, mulchers, seeds, seedlings, water lily plants, farm tools, gardening hats and gloves, metal signs and water collection systems. There were educational booths with information on invasive species, frog ecology, bees and birds too. Another building housed food products, hot sauces, honeys, craft gins and other spirits. Artistic vendors were selling giant wooden fruits, pears and apples, large rusted iron sculptures of horses, owls and other creatures. Lastly, but not in any way least, was the chicken competition. Roosters and hens on dozens of varieties were in cages and available for all to see. We think we figured out which chicken won what place as the winners had a number 1, 2 or 3 chalk marked on their cage. Non-winning chickens had no chalked in numbers. When we were done we took the free shuttle to the Nambour train station where we boarded the bus back to Maroochydore.
Bantams are perhaps the only type of chicken I am aware of with the exception of the Rhode Island Reds
It is shuffling room only
Nice coloration
Big and beautiful
The leggings mean this chicken is ready for a session of aerobics
A very calm chicken
These feathers look like fish scales
A comb above
#2 winner is trying to escape. The #2 is written on the number with chalk
Contortionist chicken
The biggest chicken of the day
Yikes a huge bat
Also known as the flying foxes he was pretty friendly
Bee habitats for sale
The cutest of all Australian bees, the Blue Banded Bee
Invasive swine
Invasive rabnbbits
Cute yes, but destructive
The cats are the worst!
So many types of frogs
Now kids can dissect that frog without getting grossed out
Huge iron horse
The iron chicken
We found the free gin samples
Her favorite gin, the Koala
I got the hottest sauce that they had
The black harvest
Made from the Black Carolina Reaper
Not grammatically correct, dramatically
Pears and apples
A self contained window washer
Growing beds that are mobile
Giant kitchen garden had no giants in attendance
The garden
Who dat?
Chicken coops for sale
Farm equiprmet
Iron signs
Water lilys
Tall and shiny
Stilt walking parrot ladies!
Skwaaaak!
Turtle the Invasive species mascot
We are in the free shuttle
Passing by painted buildings
Rural Australia
Some sort of a zoo
The Breast sale ever!
