Weird tourist attraction in Western Australia draws visitors to rural town’s annual Bush Races
- Over 70 sculptures made from scrap metal line the Tin Horse Highway in Kulin, Western Australia, drawing thousands of tourists to its annual Bush Races
- The quirky tourist attraction is the brainchild of Kulin wheat farmer Mary Lucchesi, who ‘never expected it would become the attraction that it has’
What to do about Mary?
Some 20 years ago it was the question on the lips of everyone in the town of Kulin, Western Australia, 280km (170 miles) east of Perth, where second-generation wheat farmer Mary Lucchesi began asking friends and neighbours to build sculptures of horses on the road leading from town to her front yard.
She’d envisioned the sculptures would help promote the annual Bush Races – Kulin’s biggest social event – hosted every October at the Lucchesi property.
Mary’s vision came true. Known today as the Tin Horse Highway, lined with 70-odd horse sculptures made from disused car parts, 44-gallon (200-litre) drums, old farm machinery and stoves, is one of the state’s most popular drives.
It helps attract more than 4,000 people to the Bush Races every year and produces a never-ending conga line of tourists, who take a detour to see the tin horses at Kulin on the road to Wave Rock (a popular natural rock formation resembling a breaking ocean wave).