🍉 16-19 February Australia Watermelon Festival 🍉

In Queensland, Australia, there is a town known as the watermelon capital of Australia - Kingilla.

It is located inland, about 300km away from the nearest big city Brisbane, far from Australia's coastal economic center, location conditions are not superior, there is no unique tourism resources.

Such a region is difficult to develop agriculture and tourism, but it has emerged as a worldwide fruit experience destination with its superior produce - watermelon and unique creative festivals, which is a miracle.

Queensland's famous Festival, the Chinchilla Melon Festival, is a time for local residents to celebrate the watermelon harvest and pay tribute to the hard work of melon farmers.

During the festival celebrations in 2023, participants can re-wear watermelon skin helmets and experience activities such as watermelon farm Tours, watermelon coasting, melon tug-of-war and free melon eating contests.

In Guinjilla, a town of about 5,500 people, commercial watermelon cultivation began in 1950 and the fruit is now the dominant agricultural product, producing more than 210,000 tonnes a year, or 25 per cent of Australia's total.

But it's not the production or quality that really makes Guinjira famous. It's an innovative festival - the Watermelon Festival.


The festival began in 1994 as an effort to boost the regional economy affected by drought, with good results.

It was held again in 1995, and later fixed to be held every two years, held on the third Saturday in February, in addition to the warm-up activities, the official festival lasts for about a week, attracting more than 20,000 visitors each year.

Think of new ways to eat. Here you can eat the freshest watermelon and a variety of watermelon dishes, let visitors feel the magic charm of watermelon banquet.

Of course, the people of the town were not satisfied with this common way of eating, and created various new ways of eating.


For example, cut watermelon and put it on a plate, and have a competition to see who can eat it the fastest without using their hands. There's also a contest to see who can spit the seeds the furthest while eating watermelon.
Many people have experienced grass skiing, skiing, sand skiing, but few people know what watermelon skating is all about.

Slippery watermelon shoes are made of watermelon, watermelon outside play a heel-sized hole, take out a part of the inside flesh can put down the foot, the people who participate in the game barefoot wear watermelon shoes, hold the rope in both hands, slide down from the slope full of watermelon juice, fall is eliminated, can reach the end of the winner.

Although many people were confident at the beginning of the competition, most of the end was to fall in the middle and be eliminated.

Watermelon bungee jump. This is a team competition, three or four people in a group, with a rope tied to the body of the participants to form a triangle or square, four people in their own direction to pull, who first reached their own direction of the watermelon for the winner.

The watermelon Ironman. The competitors each hold a watermelon, need to cross a series of obstacles to reach the end, in the middle or crawling through the obstacles, or jumping over the obstacles, but also to withstand the mutual interference of other players, to the end of the least time, the most complete watermelon wins.

Heaviest watermelon contest. Compared with who planted the largest watermelon weight, the winning watermelon was guarded by a "security team" and participated in the parade, which was full of ceremony