This Year's Festival Bull .....DSCN1720

for Dardanup's Bull and Barrel Festival. Each year a local timber yard donates the wood for the bull. It is designed and constructed by a local man, then taken in pieces to the town oval where it is assembled. The festival concludes with the burning of the bull which was quite a spectacle. It's going to take me a while to sort through the 500 odd photos that I took while it burnt.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Wow, what a great looking statue and interesting information.

[Bep]

Very spectacular!

[gloria jones]

Great capture of the neat artwork

[Mave]

What a spectacle!

[Graham Harcombe]

Wonderful. It's many years since I was in Dardanup ...great memories.

[Denise Wood]

it's an amazing sculpture - so why destroy it?

[sally agnew]

Beautifully crafted, shame to burn all the wood and sculpture :)

[Richard Hickey]

Cool picture.

[narayani]

I used to live in Dardanup but I e never heard of this?!

[Robin]

Nice capture. A pity to burn such an attractive sculpture but I guess that's half the attraction.

[Merrelyn]

@narayani I think it started about 14 years ago.

[narayani]

@merrelyn I was there about 25 years ago!

[Milanie]

That is such a neat idea

[Valerie Chesney]

A wonderful sculpture, so artistic.

[Marnie]

Oh wow, sounds like great fun, and wonderful photo ops.

[Babs]

Oh no, you mean they burn this fabulous piece of artwork

[Merrelyn]

@golftragic It was fabulous, took a while to work out which settings to use. Now I have to sort through the 500 odd photos that I took while it burnt!

[Margo]

Gifted man!!

[Merrelyn]

@mittens @gijsje @seattlite @mave @ellida @gilbertwood @hermann @agedrunner @narayani @milaniet @happysnaps @golftragic @onewing We were talking to the fellow who builds the bulls. They are very different each year and take him about a week to build. There are always adjustments that need to be made when its erected at the oval because he builds it in sections and hopes that it will all fit.

[Sue Cooper]

That looks amazing. Such a shame it has to be burned.

[haskar]

Cool shot.

[JackieR]

Poor bull! Why and how did this tradition evolve?

[bruni]

All the beautiful wood and the work of the sculpturer, ashame to burn it afterwards..