The Big Pineapple :

A stopover at The Big Pineapple on Australia's Sunshine Coast offers a
 yummy lesson in how unusual fruit grow - and the foresight that opened 
a new form of tourism.



The Big Pineapple is a tourist attraction and working
 farm situated at Woombye nearNambour, Queensland.

The Big Pineapple is 16 metres high and was originally

 opened on the 15th of August 1971.

The Big Pineapple features two rides: 

One on a Nut Mobile, the other on a small train that takes 

passengers on a tour of the plantation and lets them optionally 

disembark at a small zoo situated on the property.

1971 Mr & Mrs Bill Taylor purchased a modest pineapple farm of 23 hectares 

on the coast side of the Bruce Highway. The Big Pineapple was opened

by the Minister for Labour and Tourism, the late John Herbert on 15 August 1971.

Allan Moffat’s famous Coca-Cola 302 Trans-Am Mustang will be one of the attractions

 at the revamped Big Pineapple site

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Nambour's Big Pineapple will be turned into a tourist destination for motor sport

 enthusiasts. Photo: Glenn Hunt

One of Queensland’s tourist icons is set to be reconditioned as a 

motor racing museum.

The new owners of Big Pineapple on the Sunshine Coast will use the

site to showcase their collection of Australian motor vehicles.

The Bowden family, of Buderim, will house a number of classic racing 

cars within buildings next to the 16-metre fibreglass tropical fruit.

I'm so shy, don't shoot me coala in tree

Little girls ready for a ride