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Big Pineapple, Sunshine Coast

February 1, 2011
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Big Pineapple, Sunshine Coast

An icon, and heritage-listed attraction at Woombye, is now closed for visit.  It was a working pineapple farm, double with shop and restaurant.  Its just one hour drive from Brisbane. Sad, it is now turned into a motor museum.

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Big Banana – Coffs Harbour

February 1, 2011
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Big Banana – Coffs Harbour

A tourist attraction in Coffs Harbour about 600 km from Sydney, just 400 km from Brisbane.  On this trip, we drove from Brisbane, and it took us about half a day.  Its more than just banana farm tour.  There is a toboggan ride in the farm, which guaranteed adrenalin rush experience.

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Tropical Fruit World

December 15, 2009
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Tropical Fruit World

Avocado in front of the Tropical Fruit World, New South Wales, just few minutes drive from Gold Coast.  Lots of avocado trees, paw-paw, lychees and many more tropical fruits trees you never thought grown in Australia.   They even have kemunting trees (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa Wight), tug along the path to the fruit stall show.  I...

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Pineapple

October 1, 2009
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Pineapple

A spiky-leaved pineapple I grew in the farm (Local Brunei call it nanas manis), true to its name,   if harvested when its fully ripe, it will be very sweet.  Notice the spike leaves, guarding the fruit against the enemy; human.  It takes almost one year to get into this stage.

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