Fish & Chips

We drove from Mullumbimby to Port Macquarie today (600+ kilometres) through areas of sweltering heat (38 in one spot). We had a number of breaks but one of them (lunch) was in Nambucca Heads high street. I'd never been but Ms GW went on a lot of childhood holidays there and she said little had changed. Except for the 50 metre mural wrapping itself around the police station.

The whole thing looks pretty amazing but it's impossible to get it all in a photo so I include just a detail.

I have searched and found the following information about the mural:

"The Guy Crosley mosaic 'Fish & Chips' is located in Nambucca Heads wrapping around the Police Station on Bowra Street and Ridge Street. Work on the gigantic 50 metre mural commenced in 1996 and was completed in 2000. The work is a stylised and symbolic geographical map of the area.

Starting from the serpentine deep sea: sharks, whales, rays and schools of fish begin their journey to the shore, through exotic waves of tile and rock into the Smokey Cape Bay, passing the headlands, through the river mouth onto the break-wall and along the river passing the ugly brick suburbs and pastureland to Macksville, over the hills and forests to the fertile earth beyond. All types of earthly and airborne characters adorn these landscapes. Beneath the colourful and glossy facade there is a dark undercurrent that surfaces including a large drunken octopus with three pigs in the clutch of his tentacles, monsters that dwell within the waves that wait offshore and a rainbow serpent wrapped around a gold topped mushroom where people await a magic bus to arrive. "Fish & Chips" is a fantastic public artwork that is hard to miss and amazing to look at!

Every piece of "Fish & Chips" was constructed from ceramics and objects donated or specifically made by artists locally and from around the world. Guy Crosley was assisted by local volunteers, school children and art students from TAFE Outreach."