Giant Pick-Up Sticks

28 years later, and I finally have a photo of giant pick up sticks. Courtesy of Marie Martin, who writes "I thought you might like to see another wave (or blow) of your influence....
The Festival of the Wind is a bi-annual event in Esperance. Esperance is on the southern coast of Western Australia and has a vibrant volunteer community. There are about 13,000 people in the town and involvement in over 550 volunteer organisations at federal, state and local levels. Anna and I did work with Esperance Volunteer Resource Centre in 2002/2003 to create a video for 'bridging the gap to volunteering' - helping people become volunteers in rural and remote locations. The Festival of the Wind involves artists, environmentalists and scientists in an event that focuses on one of the strengths (or irritations) of Esperance - it is windy for about 300 days each year! When my family was camping there some years ago we went from the camping ground into town (20 miles) for dinner because the meat kept blowing off the barbeque!"

Giant Pick-Up Sticks in the wind. Next time, they should try it with flags on top of each stick! Kinda like, um, Spellikans.

For more on this game, and Spellikans, see this