A man turned the biggest pumpkin grown in Australia this year into a canoe, and paddled it down the country's Tumut River.

Adam Farquharson's friend, Mark Peacock, won a blue ribbon for his mammoth pumpkin and Farquharson decided that wouldn't be the end of the giant gourd's career.

Farquharson, hollowed out the 407-kilogram pumpkin — named Tormund after the "Game of Thrones" character — and took it to the water as 1,000 spectators watched

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-16/man-turns-mammoth-400kg-pumpkin-into-a-canoe/103708438 #pumpkins #Australia

Man turns mammoth 400kg prize-winning pumpkin into a canoe, paddles it down river

A fan of shenanigans and the unnecessary, the former commodore of the Tumut Canoe Club donned a captain's hat and pipe to paddle the biggest pumpkin grown in Australia this year down a river, Popeye style.

@globalmuseum OMG! Now we know what Peter Lukas was up to after his umpteenth divorce from Elias! xD
#magnusarchives #rustyquill #peterlukas #eliasbouchard