At 8 meters tall and roughly 2.3 tonnes, the fiberglass galah looming over Kimba, South Australia is hard to miss from the highway — which is the point. Kimba markets itself as the halfway mark between Sydney and Perth, and the pink cockatoo, built in 1993, has become the roadside proof: one of Australia’s endless catalog of oversized “Big Things.”
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