I've always thought that Australians are very good at life, like coffee, dessert, and brunch.. But you never thought, this elegant country has a lot of strange festivals, in fact, the Australian nature can be funny, retreat can be tranquil, moving like a rabbit, quiet as a virgin.
The next five odd festival days, why don't you try it too!
Beer can rowing club (Beer Can Regatta)
Darwinian people in the northern desert not only drink beer, but also use empty beer cans. Every July, the warm winter day, the Mindy River on the various types of beer tank ships ready to launch, carrying the unique Australian enthusiasm, opened the Battle Of Mindil prelude, do everything possible green revelry.
There is no special standard for hull design, and contestants try all kinds of chic "shipbuilding techniques" to match hydrodynamics without getting killed too quickly in their opponent's water gun offensive and flour bombs. Yes, beer canisters have no speed at all, depending on "standing up" in a scuffle and finding the first targets on the water, such as radio lighthouses, six rows of beer or a large wooden box, among other things, "stand up" in a scuffle, and find the first targets on the water, such as radio lighthouses, six rows of beer, or a large wooden box. The so-called sharpening of the firework, into the white heat of the final, the contestants will suspend the game to repair the seven-tipped eight battered rowing.
Todd River foot Boating Race (Henley on Todd Regatta)
Inland desire for the sea can simply turn people into madmen, but also create an irrational traditional race!
On the third Saturday of August, on a dry riverbed in the inland town of Alice Springs, dust was flying in the air. Ah, no, it was a hundred-legged run. You don't need any water boating experience to compete in the Todd River rowing. It's a land boat race, and it's a disguised race. People imitated the hull with lightweight materials such as cardboard and polyvinyl chloride pipes, carrying bottomless boats with feet as oars, water cannon powder bombs as cover, or fighting alone, or working together in the sand.
Anyway, this is a very off-line play.
The game inspired the wild nature of the mainlanders, some rowing canoes with sand shovels, others running with bottomless bathrooms, some sitting on surfboards and being pulled forward by teammates, and lifeguards pulling the "sand drowning" out of the sand. Please don't laugh at their funny, this is a real group of positive energy defenders, the competitions have raised more than a million Australian dollars for local, national and international humanitarian projects. The only suspension was due to a torrential rain in a lifetime.
Campfire Festival, (Australian Camp Oven Festival).
This is one of the most cultural activities. Milmeren is an aboriginal tribal settlement in southeastern Kunzhou, located in the highlands, and Millmerran is derived from the meaning of the aboriginal language watchtower. The biannual Camp Oven Festival is the most representative event in Queensland, where goverment encourages whites to go into aboriginal culture, when many families come to camp in trams and cook jungle cuisine (Camp Oven Cooking Competition), according to aboriginal recipes. Chanting jungle poetry, (Bush Poetry).
Men, women, children, old men, women, children, (Damper Throwing)., In the wild, especially in the inaccessible inland areas, flour, water, salt and pancakes were cooked over bonfires with Billy tea, the most common food of the 19th-century Australians in the full face of the giant Danbo Bread, which was the most common food of the 19th century Australians in the rural areas of the country, especially in the inaccessible inland areas of the country. It was very palatable to throw this piece of hard-skinned bread baked from the ashes.
The editor does feel that this is a festival to preserve cultural heritage, with special significance.
Wife-carrying Competition (Wife-carrying Championship)
The wife-carrying cross-country race, as its name implies, is a 253.5-meter-long racetrack with a female teammate crossing the sand, swimming ponds, crossing the fence. Women must be over 17 years old and weigh at least 49 kg. If they do not reach the standard, they will have to bear additional weight. Not all teams have to be husband and wife, and without a partner, borrowing a wife is allowed. Does it sound like a stone-age barbarian move, and it is true that the competition stems from the old Finnish tribe's "wife-stealing" custom. It is also said that the 19th century Finnish burglars were rampant, often to the surrounding villages to rob property and women, locals saw robbers attacked, will immediately carry their wives and belongings to escape.
It is a sport full of primitive beauty that attracts more than a dozen countries, including Australia, Japan and the United States. After the national contestants decided to win or lose, they entered the Finnish International Championships on behalf of the country. If you want to run out of speed without losing your wife, you also need skill in addition to physical strength. The Estonian contestants have won seven times, and the Estonian style is also recognized as the most scientific and efficient pose in which the woman clamps her legs around the man's neck and hands from her armpits, hanging upside down from the back of the man's back, just like a person-shaped backpack.
Alice spring felt hat festival (Beanie Festival)
Australians have boundless energy and love to sweat like rain, and it is unambiguous to play small and fresh. In central Australia, wool caps are a necessity for people to spend the winter. This felt hat festival is nothing more than a gathering, but Australians want to play the best, play out feelings, out of the indigenous tribe craftsmen to make a living, but also out of the promotion of the local hat-weaving handicraft pilgrimage mentality. As a result, this annual felt hat festival gathered the efforts of working women and artists and became a grand festival of literature and art, with men, women, children and men wearing an "unfettered" wool hat. The scene was as interesting as the hat fight at the Royal Jockey Club.
Felt hat design to highlight the theme of the year, such as this year is "heterosexual attraction", through the perspective of craftsmen to convey the link between people, people and the environment. The grand opening ceremony opened the end of the week with music drumming through the ocean of hats, and the pieces that stood out from "felt hat Olympism" (Beanie Olympics) had to line up and display for weeks in a row. Well, don't you also feel the Australian child's serious interest?
Which one do you like best when there are so many strange festivals in Australia? Editor thinks Beanie Festival is quite special, perhaps also can buy a lot of unique hats.
But then again, dear Australia, I didn't expect you to be so happy on the surface of the art!