Chinchilla melon festival is being held in chinchilla town in
Queensland Australia, the town is the melon capital of Australia host to one of
the most delicious festivals in the world and that is a Melon Festival every
second year in February As Chinchilla produces 25% of Australia’s melons.
This festival is known as one of the biggest food festivals
worldwide that people do not just throw melons at each other but perform other
activities such as Melon Skiing, Melon Bungee, Melon Bull’s-eye, Melon
Iron-man, Melon Chariot, a pip spitting competition, melon eating races and
other melonic activities.
A special event held in 2009 saw John Allwood secure the Guinness
World Record of Melon Head Smashing - cracking open as many watermelons as
possible using only the head. Currently his record is 47 melons in a minute.
The first Chinchilla Melon Festival was held in 1994 by local producers and businessmen, In 2009, the Melon Festival won the Queensland Regional Achievement and Community Award for Tourism Event.
People around the world come to this rather small city to
experience a different and healthy celebration and rest from machine life they
have everyday, this events help them to feel what is nature still offers to
them.
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