We took an interesting daytrip a while back to the Adelaide Hills. We took a scenic drive up through the Torrens River Gorge up to do some hiking and visit the Chain of Ponds winery. We continued driving on and later came upon the silliest thing I have ever seen. It was a statue of a giant rocking horse in the town of Birdwood. It is apparently the biggest one of its kind in the world. It is built in the parking lot of an interesting shop called the Toy Factory which sells quality hand made wooden toys. There was also a small enclosed park in the back of the shop that had tons or peacocks, chickens, ducks, and other birds wandering and squaking all over the place. You could purchase small bags of feed to hand out to the animals. South Australia is truly unique, where else could you do a little wine tasting, climb a giant rocking horse, by some small wooden toys, and hand feed a few domesticated peacocks all within a few hours.
The giant rocking horse in Birdwood. I circled Kim in red in the bottom left to give you a sense of scale.
This sign show exact distances to Birdwood from various cities in North America.
I couldn't resist this photo. It's not everyday you come across five peacocks all perched together on a fence.
