One Woman’s Mission to Visit Every Single Big Thing in Australia

Peppered across Australia are hundreds of giant, fiberglass sculptures: “big” versions of random objects, designed to attract tourists to otherwise unattractive towns. The famous ones are The Big Pineapple and The Big Banana, but they’re only the tip of the iceberg. Some of the more niche entries include The Big Deck Chair, The Big Lobster, The Big Purse, the Big Axe, The Big Galah, The Big Bull, The Big Kangaroo—you get the idea.

Unsurprisingly, there are also a number of Facebook pages that have set out to chronicle Australia’s assortment of big things. One of them, Big Things of Australia, boasts an improbably dedicated fanbase: its members frequently consulting one another for directions to the…