Big things abound if you know where to look – the Bundy Bottle is an obvious one but there are other gems to be found.

The happy workers here were in high spirits.

The Big Bowling Pin. Most Bundy locals love bowling. You get over an hour eating and drinking interspersed with a few periods of six seconds of exercise. I was going to tell a bowling joke but I will strike it from my mind and spare you.

The Big Magpie at a sports club is every postie’s nightmare. This one goes to the gym so he can work on his pecks.

The Big Barrel at the Bundaberg Brewing Company – home of Bundaberg Ginger Beer. What is the difference between this big barrel and a bucket? A bucket pails in comparison.

A sculpture from local Dave Machen who once stated that “the joy of living in Bundaberg is the refusal of the people to bother with fashion, reasoning that by the time a trend reaches there, it’s probably out of style anyway”. It was also reported that he said “in spite of the fashion differences, there are two great cities in the world – Paris and Bundy“. I was expecting to find fashionistas and influencers everywhere and in Bourbong Street (main street), they were there in droves sitting in the rotunda outside the Police Beat office.

Another sculpture from Dave Machen titled “Good times, Bad times” – stylised fish with vertebral issues or bird’s head pecking Pringles?

A rivetting image of the Burnett River rail and road bridges.

And close to the river, a Big (mutant zombified) Lungfish – the “Burnett Beast”. It is breathtaking!

In the belly of the beast – a lack of organ-isation in here

Sweet dreams. What did the lungfish couple say to each other? We be-lung together.

Big family – Wood ducks at North Bundaberg – parents are quacking up looking after 12 offspring

Big meal – this happy egret spontaneously told us a joke – it was a gag reflex

Pied cormorants on the Burnett River – after this strenuous flight they were soon shagged out

Teally good ducks – Chestnut teals at Fairymead near the mouth of the river

A Silver gull flying in close thinking we had chips – it was a bit gullible.

A hornamental bovine. What does a bovine call his girlfriend? His significant udder.

Historic Lighthouse at Burnett Heads – probably one of the oldest lighthouse structures in Queensland. It was originally at Cowan Cowan on Moreton Island and was moved to the south bank of the Burnett River heads in 1873; operational until a modern lighthouse was built in 1972.

A Nutmeg Mannikin (Spice Finch) near Oaks Beach at Burnett Heads. It is rather lifelike for a mannikin.

We were “shirtfronted” by this big roo on the Turtle Trail.

Finally to Bargara, a short 15 minute drive from Bundy and the Big Turtle lives in the playground by the ocean. I was shell-shocked at its sheer enormity. Nearby at Mon Repos beach on summer nights over a period of 4 months, thousands of tourists walk the beaches with guides watching loggerhead and flatback turtles lay their eggs. Approximately 6 weeks later, the hatchlings emerge to make their way to the water past hordes of tourists. It is the equivalent of massed reptile tourism of human maternity wards. Sometimes the lights from the land cause the hatchlings to head inland away from the sea. This is a case of reptile dysfunction.

Sunset from The Hummock, the loftiest peak in the district at a whopping 79 metres above sea level.