Have you been down to the Bundaberg Botanical Gardens recently? You really should. Council have built this wonderful monument to the backbone of our country, the shearers! Firstly it was supposed to be an aviation musuem at the Botanical Gardens instead of near an airport and now they produced a shearing shead that houses a plane.
'The Shed' is a beautiful example of a windowless, corrugated iron shearing shed where you could easily house at least 1000 sheep ready to be fleeced. Perhaps though that is what has exactly happenend to the ratepayers of Bundaberg Regional Council in wearing the cost of this 'Tourist Attraction'. Of course they deserve credit for their recycling efforts in saving old iron sheets they found lying around from the closed down sugar mills, they have done a great job on colouring some of them in nice pastal colours and placing the very Picasso like on one side.
Thank God the Quay St Turtle Centre didn't get off the ground, the mind boggles at what would have been the end result of that one.
Perhaps now that Council has gotten the 'Everything Hinkler' bug out of their system and we may get some decent tourism development. How about a large indoor glass Arboretum at the new Airport that houses 'The Big Turtle', now there's an attraction.
4 comments:
I agree completely that the Hinkler Hall is in the wrong place, looks dreadful from the outside (Although I must admit it's better internally than I expected)and especially that Bundaberg needs to get over Bert 'bloody' Hinkler. It's a little sad really that this insignificant (on the national level) flyer gets such utter hero worship and adoration. Except for real aero nuts it only takes about a 1/2 drive from Bundy to get to a place where they stare at you and say Bert Who? if his name comes up. I don't fully agree on the money as a lot came from the local Hinkler fanatics as well as state and federal funding but what council did spend I agree was mis-allocated. That being said I think you have to give the sarcasm a rest, it comes off smug, and does nothing for your argument.
Couldn't agree more. What a bloody shambles.
Another example of the "I've got a good idea!" syndrome. Of course its in the wrong place, just like the Turtle Centre in Quay Street was, thank God that didn't happen.
How about putting the turtle centre at the airport?Visitors wont have to go anywhere else and can fly straight back out again,makes as much sense as the 'Hinkler' shed!!
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