Sky Watch Friday/Easter Show (9)

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Easter Show (8)

This is a bilby, a highly endangered and very cute, species of bandicoot. At Easter, instead of chocolate eggs and bunnies, try a chocolate bilby and help to save the species. This one is a large male.

Easter Show (7)

Some very attractive animals.

Easter Show (6)

Getting ready for competition with a wash, brush, polish and, of course, new shoes.

Monochrome Weekend/Easter Show (5)

They also have domestic animals in competition at the Show. This is the only decent cat picture I managed to get. I wanted to see the Abysinians but they weren't being show that day. Here is a big sook of an Oriental (unfortunately with his eyes closed).

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Sky Watch Friday/Easter Show (4)

More of what the city kids go to the Show for. Things that go up and down and round and round very fast.

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Easter Show (3)

More of what the Show's really about. The blokes from the bush in the horse pavilion.

The country schools bring their animals down for the competitions.

Easter Show (2)

What the Show is really about is a celebration of the State's agriculture and the people behind it. They exhibit their produce and animals and compete for Best in Show. These are the District Exhibits, a showcase of produce from the different regions. The wonderful mural at the back of the Western Districts exhibit if made from wool.

I was also taken with the Southern Districts exhibit with its likenesses of women agriculturalists made from seeds.

Easter Show

These two images are, to me, quintessential Easter Show. The Dagwood Dog (aka Pluto Pup), a hotdog dipped in batter, deep fried and covered in tomato sauce. I chanced upon a family indulging in this festive treat. Here's dad and the boys, mum had better taste than to partake. I've never tried one and doubt that I ever will. I'm sure they taste every bit as disgusting as they look.

The Showbag. A parent's nightmare and a child's delight. Horribly expensive bags filled with sugar in all its incarnations and colourful bits of plastic junk.