It’s nearly that time of year again! If you live in Melbourne you may be keenly anticipating the Birdman Rally that is held on our Labour Day weekend in March. I have a particular fondness for the ridiculous and it tickles the funny bone to see grown men fling themselves off the end of a pier. Some of them spend months calculating and designing the “winning craft”. I imagine textbooks, a shed full of tools and many late night phone calls between aforementioned parties so that their design will win the cash and the love of the audiences who flock there every year.
Alternately there will the last minute entries who steal the show. Like the German tourist who years ago purchased a khaki outfit, blond wig, inflatable crocodile on the day and leapt into victory. Such a simple and hardly thought of concept, yet it worked.
I’ll probably be there again this year and like all other years it’s the place where you hope to see spectacular tumbles and bizarre costumes. I know I won’t be disappointed.
RIP Steve Irwin
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