A local sort-of equivalent is on the Oodnadatta track near Lake
Eyre, though in this case if you've gone to sleep on the dirt,
gravel, holes and general banging you deserve to die anyway.
Multiple sculptures including a giant dog from a derelict railway
tank and a sunflower from an old windpump. Onl;y immediately
available photo is "Planehenge", at eh bottom of
http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/asapo.htm You can skip the
reading to get to the picture...

Problem I always used to have was with the cypress pines,
beautiful dark green stately trees until an eagle perches in one,
then tou realise it's actually 20 feet high...

Bart Senior wrote:

This thead got me thinking about a stretch of Interstate 80
west of Salt Lake City.

The road is perfectly straight for probably 40 miles or more.
Off in the distance you see what looks like a huge tree. You
can't quite make out what it is. Each mile--still the same
thoughts. What the heck is it?

Finally after what seems like hours, you pull up alongside
this weird metal scupture 100 or so feet high that looks like
an tree with huge balls instead of leaves. I later learned it's
called "The Tree of Utah. [Metaphor] or The Tree of Life.

There is no parking. The idea is to keep bored drivers on
this stretch of highway from falling asleep at the wheel. The
scupture keeps dsrivers minds working and more alert.

Finally, you see this weird things and you spend the next
hunderd miles, wondering about it.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attra...Nmetaphor.html

http://utahpictures.com/Bonneville_Salt_Flats.php

Bart Senior

Flying Tadpole wrote

Joe wrote:

See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg

Ah Joe, as one who lives and works a lot of the time on the
sweeping plainlands of the arid interior, I _do_ understand your
revulsion. It's one I commonly meet amongst tourists new to such
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