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The Hernon family is the latest to get creative in an attempt to win a trip to Bali in the Bendigo Advertiser Hay Bale Sculpture Competition.
Maiden Gully couple Mick and Georgia Hernon’s two sons Tom, 12, and Gus, 14, have applied a comic touch to their entry with displays featuring Santa Claus engaged in extreme sports.
One sculpture has Santa waterskiing, while the other features a less successful tilt at BMX riding.
“Our sons are pretty keen on their water sports and they have a plastic boat in the dam so they dragged that up and put a couple star pickets in the ground and set Santa up on skis,” Mr Hernon said.
“Our (other) effort was to depict Santa crashing into the small bale and losing the front wheel of his bike and then head first through the round bale.”
He credited Tom and Gus as being the driving force behind the sculptures.
“They did the skiing Santa on their own, that was their creation, they’re pretty hands on, they like a bit of activity.”
Jenni Hedstrom and family have created Mr and Mrs Claus on their Chanters Lane property in Tylden.
Derby sheep and cattle farmers Rodney and Narelle Broom have created two teddy bears and a Christmas tree on the Calder Highway near Collins Road.
All entries will go to a public vote on the Bendigo Advertiser website from January 21 to decide a winner.
The entry gaining the most votes through the Bendigo Advertiser website will win return airfares for two adults and five nights at the Sun Island Legian Hotel and Spa in a Legian Suite room, and five nights at the Santi Mandala Villas and Spa.
The $4500 prize is sponsored by Grogan's Machinery, Krone and Bendigo Travel and Cruise Centre.
Property owners with land in the Bendigo Advertiser readership area are eligible.
Sculptures must be built close to a public road using at least one large or five small bales.
Entrants will receive a poster to put on the fence in front of the sculpture for public voting.
Entrants are reminded to use safe work practices.
They did the skiing Santa on their own, that was their creation, they’re pretty hands on
- Mick Hernon
