The last time I went to the Big Rocking Horse I wasn’t four years old, I was technically a "man". It was on a budget wine tour to the Barossa Valley. It was for backpackers, so it was cheap. The aim was probably to consume as much booze as possible while taking in the history of the area… a likely combination.
What made this particular wine tour all the more remarkable were two things. 1) Our tour guide-come driver was a confessed bikie with a split personality who wavered between intelligent charming wit and filthy cussing. 2) A DAMN BIG ROCKING HORSE.
Everyone knows the Big Banana, the Big Pineapple, and nerdy wet dream, the Big Slide Rule (?), but this is the punk of the ‘big stuff’ scene. Created in 1981 to help sell toys at the attached wooden toy factory and put Gumeracha on the map, (it IS on the map) this lonesome freak stands 18 metres tall, swings in the wind, and has been voted Number 1 Big Aussie Icon by Wotif.
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