This 10 metre high roadside sculpture is the biggest mango in the world! It was erected in 2002 at a cost of almost $90 000, with the aim of revitalising the local community and boosting tourism.
In 2014 the Big Mango was involved in a heist where it mysteriously disappeared overnight! The case of the 'missing mango' made global headlines within hours. The stunt's publicity value exceeded $13 million!! It turned out that Nando's was responsible - in light of promoting their new mango and lime flavour!
We arrived at the Big4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort about lunch time. It was a surprise for Jack for his birthday tomorrow. We'd told him he'd be spending his 9th birthday at a bush camp! He was pretty excited when we arrived - this place is the bomb for kids.
It has a great playground, heated lagoon pool with waterslides, two jumping pillows, a giant chess set, mini golf, ping pong, tennis & basketball courts, outdoor movies and a kids club. Oh, and really cool ducks!
So, once we had settled in the boys had a swim while I ducked off to get some supplies for the big day tomorrow. Then Bruce and Jack shot some hoops while Fletch, Jarrah and I had a game of mini golf.
We finished the day off with an outdoor movie and a bag of Triple Butter Popcorn! The movie playing tonight was called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Weird name but it had Steve Carrell in it and the little kid from Paper Planes and the part of it that I saw was really quite funny.
Now the boys are all asleep it must be time for present wrapping and balloon blowing....
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